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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Tara Cobham and Nadine White

‘You just have to be female - someone will come after you’: What it’s really like as a woman in the Met Police

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A serving female Metropolitan Police officer has spoken out about the “rampant sexualisation of women” in the force, after a damning review found it to be institutionally racist, misogynist and homophobic.

The woman, who has worked in the Met for over a decade, describes years of offensive sexual language and abuse directed at her and female colleagues.

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