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Met Police Vetting Failures Allowed Rogue Officers to Join Force

A review has revealed that the Metropolitan Police’s vetting processes were seriously compromised between 2013 and 2023, allowing officers and staff who later committed serious crimes including rapes, assaults, and drug offences to join the force. The vetting panel, introduced in 2019 to address disproportionate refusals of applicants from ethnic minority and under-represented groups, overturned

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Female Officer Banned for Life Over ‘Unwanted Sexual Approach’ to Senior

Crime / Author

A former North Yorkshire Police officer has been permanently barred from the profession after she attempted to kiss a senior colleague during a night out, behaviour a misconduct panel ruled amounted to gross misconduct. Brogan Canning touched the male officer’s leg, grabbed him by the neck and tried to kiss him while saying, “you know

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Senior Officer Instructed Me to Use Identities of Deceased Children – Met Whistleblower

Investigation / Author

Peter Francis, a former Metropolitan Police Special Branch officer whose whistleblowing exposed the covert practices of the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), told an inquiry he was once advised to search graveyards for the identities of deceased children to use as undercover aliases. Giving evidence to the undercover policing inquiry in London, Francis said the practice

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