‘Size of a small police force’ of Met officers are suspended or on restricted duties
Scotland Yard says it will take ‘two or more years to root out those who are corrupting policing’
Scotland Yard has said it will take years to root out rogue officers serving in the capital as “the size of a small police force” is suspended or on restricted duties.
Britain’s biggest force revealed that 201 officers were suspended and 860 were on restricted duties, equivalent to the size of Warwickshire or Wiltshire police forces. There are 34,000 police officers in the Metropolitan police.
100 officers have been sacked for gross misconduct in the past year, up by 66% on the normal rate.
201 officers are suspended, up from 69 in September last year.
275 are awaiting a gross misconduct hearing, a significant proportion of which involved alleged violence against women and girls, compared with 136 last year.
The number of reports from the public and officers of alleged misconduct has doubled.
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