The London police power‘s failure to root out a long-time serial rapist from its employees mirrored “cultural issues” throughout the power, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan mentioned on Tuesday.
David Carrick, a former Metropolitan Police Force officer, was unmasked as considered one of Britain’s most prolific intercourse offenders.
The 48-year-old was discovered to have dedicated gross misconduct after admitting 49 legal costs together with 24 counts of rape towards 12 girls over an 18-year interval.
Speaking at a housing growth in east London’s Docklands, Mr Khan informed the PA news company: “Londoners will be shocked and appalled that someone who has been a serving police officer for almost 20 years was a prolific sexual offender.”
“But also what’s unacceptable is there were various opportunities where the chance to get rid of him and get justice were missed,” the mayor added.
At a disciplinary listening to in Earl’s Court on Tuesday, Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe mentioned: “This is a sickening and horrific case with far-reaching consequences for policing.”
Carrick confronted complaints about his behaviour earlier than he joined the power in 2001, then once more as a probationer in 2002 and a number of other occasions all through his policing profession till 2021.
Khan mentioned Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley‘s senior crew “is looking back at any allegation from the last 10 years made against police officers and other police staff to see if there are other cases where opportunities were missed.
“I feel Londoners deserve nothing much less.”
Rowley said weak policies and decisions meant Carrick was able to stay in the force for 20 years, despite repeated complaints being made against him.
Rowley told BBC Breakfast: “We’ve let London down – he is been a police officer for 20 years.
“Through a combination of weak policies and weak decisions, over those 20 years we missed opportunities when he joined and subsequently, as behaviour cameto the fore that we should have removed him from policing.
“Whether it could have affected him being a intercourse offender I do not know, however he should not have been doing it as a police officer.”
