David Carrick rape case prompts call for all officers to be checked against national police databases
UK police forces have been asked to check all officers and staff against national police databases to identify suspected misogynistic predators who have “slipped through the net” in the wake of the, has also asked the College of Policing to strengthen the statutory code of practice for police vetting, making the obligations all forces must legally follow stricter and clearer.
“We are taking immediate steps to ensure predatory individuals are not only rooted out of the force, but that vetting and standards are strengthened to ensure they cannot join the police in the first place.” A police watchdog has been criticised by MPs after refusing to acknowledge that the UK’s forces were institutionally sexist following the Carrick revelations.
“Some of your answers here today appear to be not an impartial assessment of the police but actually a defence of police,” he said. “The major issue regarding matters getting to court is that police officers are not referring allegations of rape to the CPS. We have a charge-out rate of 1.5%. In my view, I’ve looked for all sorts of reasons for this. There has to be an attitude of misogyny in the police force that is allowing all of these cases not to be prosecuted.
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