Scotland Yard failed to properly vet thousands of officers – allowing rapists, racist and violent offenders to join the force. Two serial rapists are among more than 130 officers and staff let in due to vetting failures who have gone on to commit crimes or misconduct, the Metropolitan Police admitted on Wednesday. In a scandal which will raise questions about criminals in uniform across the UK, the Met was one of at least six forces to secretly drop employment checks on new recruits in a rush for extra cash as part of an attempt to find 20,000 new officers.
And not just any old Tom Dick or Harry off the streets would do - HR had a Pantone colour chart of the shades of diversity they'd need to hire to suit the government.
Details emerged in a bombshell Met recruitment audit which revealed the Home Office [and] National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) were aware that some other forces in England were not taking references' of new recruits despite the obvious risk to the public.
The Daily Mail has learnt that the Met was one of six forces to admit in a NPCC survey that it had 'deviated' from national police regulations during the £3billion Police Uplift Programme between July 2019 and March 2023. But sources said the true number may be higher as some forces failed to respond to the NPCC poll.
Probably because they already knew what those poll results would show. Scary to think it could be worse than the Met, though:
David Carrick, one of the UK's worst sex offenders now serving 37 life sentences for attacks on 14 women, and Cliff Mitchell, a serial rapist who called himself 'the devil', were among Met officers not properly vetted in the scramble to meet recruitment targets. Mitchell kidnapped and raped a woman at knifepoint in 2023 after being welcomed into the Met in 2020 – despite being previously investigated for six counts of rape against a child. Although there had been concerns about his recruitment, a vetting panel aimed at boosting diversity overturned a decision to reject his application.
DEIhiring is a very very bad idea. It's bad enough when it happens in the Prison Service
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Where do I start? Once the Met stopped Hendon being residential for training is when the rot started. The govt thought it was a great money-saving idea but it's not worked out. Dodgy people got weeded out during the training as we were under scrutiny 24 hours a day.
Jaded
The insanity of today is but a forewarning of what's to come: could be men/women, crazy street activists, weird and woke crazies, etc.
There's just so much wrong with what's called mainstream media - the only way to survive this without going bonkers is to avoid it all - don't watch it!
It sounds as though some Senior Officers should take early retirement and have their Pension provisions removed .
You probably still are, it's just that the definition of 'dodgy' has shifted somewhat...
I'm starting to think there's no way to stop it ...
But they won't.
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