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Two serving officers with crisis-hit force referred over group in which misogynistic messages allegedly exchanged

Ildar Sharipov is the subject of Operation Kobus, an investigation by Merseyside Police's Economic Crime Team

Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by serving police officer Couzens last year.

The Metropolitan Police are under fire after an official investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) revealed details of officers exchanging discriminatory and misogynistic messages. These included discussions about hitting and raping women, with reference to specific female colleagues, which officers involved dismissed as “banter”.

Activists have erected fake police appeals in central London featuring quotes from a damning report into sexism, homophobia and racism in the Met to urge for an inquiry into police misogyny.

Force used by officer ‘was neither reasonable nor proportionate’, police watchdog says

Child was pursued by plain clothes police in Moss Side, Manchester

"One of the officers ran after him and used CS spray in the child’s face"

The London Mayor spoke to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner for more than 90 minutes, his office said.

Exclusive: London mayor puts police chief on notice to reform or lose his confidence after seeing ‘return to the bad days of the 1970s’

The Met Police has been hit with fifteen recommendations by the police watchdog after vile behaviour was uncovered in a probe, including racist, sexist and homophobic messages.