In Full: Home Secretary's statement in wake of shocking David Carrick case

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[Nickle]

Repeat ad nauseum.
The met are institutionally racist. I have video of one officer admitting to that. The met have no go areas because of the ethnicity of who is there.

In front of the Commissioner's own office there is organised crime, wanted for homicide. He must be aware of this or he's not up to the job. And yet he does nothing, for well over a decade. Brown envelopes. End result, 6 people killed.

NE division in the Met accept free favours in exchange for policing.

You can buy, if you are the right person, policing for cash.

Most stations are full of officers who regularly commit corruption when it comes to parking.


When it comes to officers who commit road rage in possetion of firearms, the met ignore the complaint. That's the same lot who were in charge of Carrick and Couzens

When it comes to impartiality, the other day, I found 2 officers on the beat. First time in 20 years. In front of them 30 offences were committed in 5 minutes. Not our job, health and safety. Repeat ad nauseum. They want the cash, they don't want to act.

When it comes to offending. Slap on the wrist no fines. That's for mobile phone use whilst driving. It's a dual standard.

Or take major fraud. The head of SO division at Westminster knew the lords were committing massive frauds. The reason he was copied in on emails and knew that the person dishing the cash out had made it a state secret, and yet did nothing. Protect his bosses.

Or even security inside the westminster secure zone. I repeatedly told Met Officers they were very vulnerable to attack on Westminster Bridge. They did nothing. End result, people were killed.

Same for the no action on traffic offences by a certain group [not race or gender]. One killed at the start of January because the met ignore it. At least 2 serious injuries in the last half of last year. All within 300 meters of each other, same road, and the police do nothing.

Then we even have the police commissioning offences in collusion with others, and that gets white washed.

And that's just me. Scale that up over London and they are not fit for purpose.

[mickwest]

I have SACKED PEOPLE with MORE TALENT than this Mis-Fit of a Home Secretary. If you share the guilt of the force, what have you done?