(ANSA) - LONDON, MARCH 21 - The final report on Scotland Yard edited by Baroness Louise Casey, a member of the House of Lords, according to which the most important police force in the United Kingdom is "institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic" and must change, is devastating immediately runs the risk of being dismantled.
In fact, a systematic diffusion among Met Police officers of negligence, errors, abuses, cover-ups, including cases of rape filed because the freezers containing fundamental evidence had broken down, emerged.
The chief of police, Sir Mark Rowley, could only apologize to the citizens of the British capital.
"It's terrible to read the report that generates anger, frustration and embarrassment," he said.
While the mayor of London Sadiq Khan said today is "one of the darkest days in the 200-year history" of Scotland Yard.
Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also intervened, saying that trust in the police force had been "strongly damaged".
The independent report had been ordered in 2021 after the case of former agent Wayne Couzens, protagonist of one of the most serious criminal scandals to have hit the MetPolice: the kidnapping, rape and atrocious killing of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, whom he stopped on her way home with the pretext of a false detention for phantom violations of the Covid restrictions then in force.
Then many other cases of officers who had violated the law had emerged, such as that of the rapist policeman David Carrick recently sentenced to 36 life sentences, and a drastic internal disciplinary action had been launched to eliminate the "goods apples".
But today's report showed that there is still much to be done to improve the fortunes of an institution that was once highly esteemed throughout the world.
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