Three Metropolitan Police officers have been charged with sending “ grossly offensive ” messages in a WhatsApp group used by Wayne Couzens. The messages, from between April and August 2019, were uncovered by a watchdog investigation following the murder of Sarah Everard last year. Rosemary Ainslie, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “ Each of the three defendants has been charged with sending grossly offensive messages on a public communications network.... The alleged offences took place

A replacement has not yet been announced after Dame Cressida’s apparently surprise resignation, and she said she had “ agreed to stay on for a short period to ensure the stability of the Met and its leadership while arrangements are made for a transition to a new commissioner ”.... She should have been treated better.” Critics of the Metropolitan Police disagreed.... She has presided over misogyny, racism, corruption and scandal at the Met and failed time and again to even acknowledge that the

“ We need to see the police relentlessly pursuing and disrupting perpetrators, ” she added.“ But it’s also undeniable that we cannot simply police our way out of this crisis.... We have already taken essential action including introducing a national police lead for tackling VAWG and making relationship education compulsory in all primary schools.“ I am grateful to the inspectorate for their work on this report.... We will consider its findings and recommendations and expect police to also take

“ These officers are being unfairly lambasted for things they haven’t done.... ur added: “ This amounts to yet more denial of the difficult internal work the institution needs to do to address its abundantly clear problem with racism and misogyny.... Trying to blame someone else and supporting Cressida Dick is not the way back for the Met....

Organisers of a vigil for murdered Sarah Everard have won a High Court challenge against the Metropolitan Police, after the force ‘failed to perform its legal duty’.... “ It shows that the police were wrong to silence us, ” the claimants added.... That sadness is shared by colleagues across the Met.” She said the force knew “ how strongly people felt in wanting to come together ” for the vigil but had “ worked very hard in challenging circumstances to interpret and apply ” Covid regulations...