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R.Years ago, I talked about the toxic culture within the capital police service. Now, I do it again, It is the Caring Cross Police Station. once again. It appeared on BBC Panorama Undercover in the police program. I thought long and difficult to participate In this documentary filmAfter the hatred and threats that I received last year after it spoke as part of another BBC documentary. But I felt that, given the importance of the program and everything he was trying to reveal, I had to participate. In addition, I couldn’t let the haters win.

Three years ago, I was the director of London in An independent office for police behaviorWhere my team did an incredible work in the investigation of misconduct inside the Charing Cross. The subsequent report discovered the victims of racism and ill -treatment who themselves were serving officers. It also revealed a poisonous culture of women, racism, Islamic fear, anti -Semitism, homosexuals, and ability. Yes, really.

In addition to the recommendations we made to Met to ensure that this does not happen again, I made a decision to publish WhatsApp messages Not classified. This was not an easy decision, but I wanted to make sure that members of the public and other officers who serve understand how discrimination seemed to – and what their colleagues have suffered. This has become a global news story, and Ultimately resigned From Met Commissioner, Cressida Dick.

Why do I tell you this now? Because after three years, the secret reports of BBC show that nothing has changed. nothing. This is a catastrophic failure to lead at the highest level by Met. I am unusually interested in all the work, and all the recommendations that were made before. It was agreed on everything and applied from supposed. How can this happen again?

This is the question that must be accurately explored in order to know where the accountability of this failure occurs. What is impressive, and what this documentary has proven, is how some officers think and act when they feel safe. It is a clear reflection of the extent in which extremist right -wing thinking crawls to our public services. It is also an affirmation of what some societies in London are always afraid, which seems to be institutional racism and women’s hate in reality. If these vaccines are a little reflection, search again in the anti -immigration and anti -Muslims hate that we have seen in the documentary, along with the abundant examples of women’s anchors.

I am still processing the documentary. I was at the National Black Police Conference (NBPA) this week, where we were very thinking about this.

In the program, my amazing colleague, Soo Fish, who was the chief Nutinghamsheire officer who worked hard to confront misuse and made women hate a hate crime, said what I said three years ago: This is not just a state of corrupt apples. It is about the barrel. It was always.

So what next? The first thing they have to do is to ask themselves, how this happened again. How did this happen at all in Met, but specifically, how did this happen in Charing Cross, given everything they know about the station there and its culture? This is a depth, because a lot was done at the station the last time to transport the officers of solution units, but the problem still exists. This is a case study in failure. You cannot mistake the current MET Commissioner’s speech, Mark Rolley. There is a full range of work they do to get a new feature. But, after three years, this is where we are, how can we say it is working?

One thing they need to do is to fix the relationship with NBPA. They also need to bring people their views are difficult, and therefore it is difficult to hear, but those who must hear. Everything now is very internal. after McFireson report After investigating police failures after Stephen Lawrence’s death, They had advisers who put those who made an appropriate challenge and criticism, but this might dispel nothing.

They must also create conditions so that the front lines officers who do not want any role in this feeling of confidence in the ability to speak and will be supported when they do so. In the program, we saw an officer knowing what was said was a mistake, but you didn’t feel that she could do anything about it because the male officer in question was great. This problem must be addressed urgently.

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Most of the officers in MET are decent and will wake up today from documentary patients last night. It is clear that Rolley is trying, but what he does does not work and waved on the horizon is the next stage of the review By Baronea Casey In the criteria of behavior and the Met culture. What is the opinion that you will take from this?

This continued for a long time. What we need now is a fewer meaningful number of words about “Al -Kabouni’s approach“To distribute shameful behavior and more humility about what they make mistakes, allied with the courage to ask for help in obtaining it properly.

• Sal Naseem is the former regional director of London at the Independent Police behavior office

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