Met Police chief Mark Rowley says it’s ‘crazy’ he can’t sack ‘toxic’ officers who have broken the law.
Met Police chief Mark Rowley has said it’s ‘crazy’ he can’t sack ‘toxic’ officers who have broken the law.
The probed officers – the figure being double the previous estimate – are not allowed to hold public-facing roles. ‘We’ve got some officers who we sacked, but other legal bodies, who have a power to reinstate them, did.Mark Rowley, who took the reins of the Met last year, said he doesn’t have the authority to fire disgraced officers More than 90 officers and staff were found guilty of crimes after complaints or investigations last year, including sexual misconduct, corruption and violence, figures reported byRowley added: ‘There were cases where there were warning signs and our vetting wasn’t good enough.
Officers routinely crack jokes about rape and swap racist texts, England’s official police watchdog found in aThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it’s not just a case of a few ‘bad apples’, but the wider culture of the British police itself that embraces ‘toxic masculinity’.
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