'We have failed': London police apologise over serial rapist cop
"I apologise to all of David Carrick's victims. We have failed. I'm sorry," London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark P. Rowley said in a video attached to the tweet. "He should not have been a police officer. I have promised action. Integrity is our foundation – the Met will become ruthless at rooting out those who corrupt it."
David Carrick, 48, pleaded guilty to 49 offenses, including 24 counts of rape and charges that included assault, attempted rape and false imprisonment in connection to the attacks that took place over a 17-year period. The officer, who joined the force in 2001, previously served with the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command.
The department apologised to victims after it emerged that nine allegations of rape and other crimes were made against Carrick from 2000 to 2021. He was suspended from the force after his arrest for a rape complaint in 2021.
"This man abused women in the most disgusting manner," Rowley said.
Britain's PA Media news agency reported Carrick admitted in court to raping nine women, some on multiple occasions over months or years, and to having locked some of his victims in his home without food and forcing them to clean his house naked. He said he whipped one woman with a belt, urinated on some of the victims and told them when they could eat and sleep in a pattern of violence and controlling behavior.
Police officers under the microscope
Meanwhile, all police forces have been ordered to search for sexual predators and domestic abusers in their ranks, in a major review sparked by the horrific crimes of Carrick, The Independent reported today, January 18, 2023.
It said in a similar check, the Metropolitan Police has found more than 1,000 serving officers and staff who have had complaints against them in the past decade but faced no action at the time.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) is writing to all forces in England and Wales to check their officers and staff against national police databases.
The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) is seeing a record number of UK officers employed, according to information from the latest Standing Finance Committee Report.
It is unclear if they will also be screened.
The RVIPF is led by UK national Mark Collins.
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24 Responses to “'We have failed': London police apologise over serial rapist cop”
Your outlook on life is unhealthily negative.
Truth is there are good ppl and bad everywhere in the world. If someone bad in England is found it doesn’t mean we don’t have bad ppl here that need to be exposed. The same thing applies to good people in all countries.
the very same set of people that kept your forefathers and my fore parents in the hot sun
The very same great britian that helped whipped and shackle our people have returned to tell us what to do, not to mention what our country is doing wrong
slavey was wrong but how quickly some blacks forget: there is not much that can be done by the people of the virgin islands that can be compared to the United Kingdom and their killing of our ancestors just to make money before 1834
Killing off your family members just to be in the sugar cane trade: killing of your family members just to be in the cotton trade is far worst than money laundering or dope trafficking
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Babylon will burn. Uk and US. Judgement is at hand.