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‘I hope he will go away and re-think,’ Mina Smallman said

Damning report may bolster Mark Rowley’s declared mission of reform but he needs to take ‘cops on the ground’ with him

Baroness Louise Casey has found that London’s Metropolitan police force is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. We heard similar 24 years ago when, after the incompetent investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Sir William MacPherson reported that the Met was institutionally racist.

Specialist sexual assault units would be set up in every police force and domestic violence experts put in all 999 call centres under Labour proposals announced on Tuesday.

Trouble is, we’ve been here before - with the Scarman Report in 1981 and the 1999 MacPherson inquiry which famously found the Met to be institutionally racist

Home secretary previously accused police of ‘spending too much time on symbolic gestures’ on diversity

London’s police force has lost the confidence of the people it serves because it is riven with institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia and doesn’t do enough to weed out bad officers, according to a withering report commissioned after a young woman was raped and killed by a serving officer

Baroness Casey has called for a major overhaul of Britain’s biggest police force.

Serving and former officers tell of racism, sexism and misogyny at under fire force