Nearly 150 Met Police officers accused of domestic violence in past two years

Campaigners are calling for ‘transformational change’ on the Met (Image: Getty)

A complete of 147 Metropolitan Police officers have been accused of home violence by a partner or accomplice prior to now two years, it has been revealed.

Knowledge launched underneath freedom of knowledge legal guidelines reveals the 129 male officers and 18 feminine officers confronted allegations, though only a fraction ended up in court docket.

One of many feminine officers and 11 of the male officers had been charged, a proportion of round 8%.

The figures equate to just about 1 in 200 officers within the drive dealing with home abuse claims in that interval.

Additionally they equate to multiple particular person per week coming ahead to report a male officer who's their husband or accomplice.

Some victims stated their instances weren't correctly investigated attributable to a ‘boys’ membership’ tradition of cover-ups, in keeping with the Night Customary, which obtained the information.

The Met has come underneath unprecedented strain to evaluate its tradition and hiring practices after a string of controversies together with the homicide of Sarah Everard by serving officer Wayne Couzens in March 2021.

Dame Cressa Dick stepped down this week amid criticism ensuing from a report which discovered proof of utmost misogynistic, racist and homophobic feedback shared between officers.

Simply 8% of the allegations led to legal costs, prompting claims of a ‘boys’ membership’ tradition (Image: Getty)

She was pressured to stop after shedding the help of London Mayor Sadiq Khan after he reportedly grew to become unhappy with efforts to deal with the difficulty.

Comparable figures for different forces have but to be revealed, though in Could 2021, 129 girls throughout the UK informed the Centre for Ladies’s Justice they'd been raped, crushed or coerced by a police officer partner or accomplice within the earlier two years.

Harriet Wistrich, the charity’s director, informed The Customary: ‘The figures are extraordinarily regarding and along with different proof rising of a tradition of misogyny within the Met are grounds for making transformational change from the management right down to deal with this utterly unacceptable downside.’

A Met Police spokesperson stated: ‘Tackling home abuse is a precedence for the Met and that features when our personal officers are accused of offences.’

.