Sarah Everard Murder - Serving Met Officer Arrested *Mod Note in OP*

Commander Dick has made several dubious decisions in the last few years and still manages to hold onto her job. Baffling.

The following article was published in The Daily Mail 3 months ago.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9774679/Killer-cop-Wayne-Couzens-just-14-shot-classmate-airgun.html

I hope the MET has a complete clear out.

They are "lucky" that it was a rapist murderer they had amongst them who was caught after his first atrocity and not an extremist who could have killed tens of people.

Nevertheless the stories that have come out show a horrible culture within the force that is being overlooked willingly and knowingly by disgruntled officers who feel that it is above their paygrade to speak up. Older generations who had their packages cut are all too willing to look the other way and wait for the Golden Handshake and the younger generation coming through are in it for the wrong reasons (mostly not all).

I don't claim to know the solutions but there surely has to be a way to ensure a higher level of integrity amongst the police. Restore their pride in the force and restore our faith in them.

Perhaps it is all byproduct of these so called budget cuts i don't know but when a woman cannot even be assured of her safety in the presence of a police office, well then we have a problem.

I've heard it reported recently that there was an acceleration in the recruiting and training process' following that spate of terrorist attacks in France and England to bolster numbers and maybe those who may not have made the cut previously slipped through.

Jesus that's some shoehorn.

Possibly, but is there any evidence to support this.

No question that he was 'amongst friends' to some degree but if it's true that others knew it was him who killed her then that is a different thing entirely.

He was not nicknamed the Rapist for nothing.

A lot of people have these kinks or fetishes and never cross the line. I’d be very careful to make broad statements against people knowing what he was up to vs what they thought he was into. Big difference.

Very concerning. How can people be expected to trust their police.

It kinda beggars belief that when there was incidents including a prostitute turning up at his station demanding payment, openly bringing a prostitute to a colleagues birthday, combined with the reports of flashing and other behaviors, that there were no official flags with this guy.

More generally, in most of these cases though people can both "know what someone is like" and never for a moment believe it'd ever end up the way it did. It's true of most of the perpetrators of these random, somewhat sexually motivated murders in recent years. Graham Dwyer, the guy who killed Jastine Valdez, for example.

I don't believe there's an overarching grand conspiracy in this case, though there's a lot to answer given he was a serving member in a sensitive area despite an absolute mountain of evidence of his complete unsuitability for any sort of policing duty.

I really don’t know why people get so hung up on him having used prostitutes and having brought one to a work party. That’s completely irrelevant to how someone performs on the actual job.

I get that the flashing should have raised alarm bells but prostitutes? Come on..

He would rather bring a prostitute instead of his wife to a work party? Huge alarm bells on how he viewed women.

Sexualised behaviour that is socially inappropriate is a known red flag which warns someone is more likely to become a sex offender. Even from an early age.

"Socially inappropriate" means engaging publically in behaviours which are not appropriate for the situation. So a bit of bondage behind closed doors is not a problem. Even at a bondage or swinger's party; grand.

Turning up to a wedding in arseless leather chaps, or bringing a prostitute (and bragging about it) to a Police colleague's party, is clearly socially inappropriate.

It indicates that the individual is either unable to understand social boundaries, or literally doesn't care about them. Which in turn indicates a tendency to overstep sexual boundaries and commit sexual offences for their own gratification.

We must go to very different work parties.