Barely two weeks after internal investigation of Scotland Yardthe London Metropolitan Policewhich concluded that women were not safe in London and that they were threatened by agents of the bodya new police officer has been found guilty of the rape of a woman. Is about Ireland Murdock26, who on September 25, 2021, on a day he was off duty, raped a woman he apparently knew, in Lambeth, in South London. The victim did not report the rape at the time. She did so in January 2022, and Murdock was later arrested.
After it was reported, Murdock looked up the victim’s name in the police system and agreed to a restricted crime report related to her, when she had no police purpose. Following this event, the police launched an investigation and expelled the officer after he admitted to unauthorized access to the system to obtain information from the victim. He was expelled from Scotland Yard in July 2022. At trial, the former agent said he was innocent, but all the evidence pointed to him and the judge found him guilty. The sentence will be announced next may 23.
The internal investigation of the police was carried out by the Baroness Casey, a government official. The report’s findings, released on March 21, were devastating for London police. It concluded that the police had failed to protect women from their own agents, that women and girls were unprotected in society and that even women officers were victims of sexist abuse routinely by their male partners.
Baroness Casey also said that “despite Scotland Yard saying that violence against women and girls is a priority, has not been treated as serious violence & rdquor; and that the accusations against officers of domestic abuse and alleged crimes against women had not been taken seriously.
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The investigation began shortly after the arrest of the police officer Wayne Couzens in March 2021 for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Everarda 33-year-old marketing manager who lived in the neighborhood of clapham, in South London. Later it was learned that Couzens had been denounced until on three occasions by women for harassing them in public places and that these complaints they were not investigated and Couzens continued to patrol the streets.
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It turned out that, like the Couzens case, there were thousands of complaints against 1,500 Scotland Yard agents, of the 45,000 agents that the body has, for domestic violence either sexual abuse their partners or other colleagues at work, and that only 23 of those agents had been suspended. In February, another agent, David Carrickwas sentenced to 39 life sentences by 49 counts of abuse of women, including 24 rapes perpetrated over 17 years, while he was a police officer. The judge described him as a monster and sexual predator. Carrick was among the 1,500 agents with other accusations from women who had not been suspended.
The head of the unit Murdock worked in, Superintendent andycarter, He expressed disappointment at his former agent’s actions and was quick to make clear that Murdock’s case was different. “We took immediate steps to suspend Murdock from his duties when his offense came to light and we fired him as soon as possible as soon as he pleaded guilty to unauthorized access to computer equipment,” he said. We are determined to have a police in which people can trust and with officers that people feel safe to approach & rdquor ;.