Police committing sexual crimes

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Lee is now publicly saying she's a scapegoat.

“I think it’s completely unfair that this case has been put on me when there was a chance to stop Couzens so much earlier,” Lee said. “They’ve thrown me under the bus so the Met can say ‘we’ve done something now’ and they’ll move on.”
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Lee said: “Everyone’s just coming down on me – ‘Oh, this is on you.’ But it’s not me that went to the McDonald’s four days later, that’s the triaging system that organises that. It’s not me that vetted Couzens and let him into the police in the first place when he’d already been known for [allegedly] committing that sort of offence.

“Everyone’s dropping it down on me as a young female PC, and [not] all the top brass and men who are higher up who have put the rules in place for this to all happen as it did, regarding the appointments, and the actual policies and the processes.”

She described the lack of training she was given regarding indecent exposure cases, which surely reflects the low importance the Met places on these sorts of cases.

She said she had never received training on indecent exposure and had only responded to three cases in five years of frontline policing... She said her lack of training meant she did not realise the importance of Couzens’s meal receipts and written statements from the McDonald’s witnesses, which she did not log.

I think the guilty verdict was correct but I also think that the fact that Lee is so far the only one who's seen any consequences for Couzens speaks volumes about the Met's inability to properly look at itself and reflect on how it allowed Couzens to feel permitted to commit his heinous crimes.

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Meanwhile, ex-Met officers admit plot to share child sexual abuse images with senior officer.

Two retired Metropolitan police officers have admitted a three-year plot to share child sexual abuse images with a serving Met chief inspector, who was found dead before he was charged.

Jack Addis, 63, and Jeremy Laxton, 62, pleaded guilty at Southwark crown court in London on Thursday to a charge of conspiring with Richard Watkinson, 49, to distribute or show indecent images of children.

[Sciolus]

Not actually a police officer-- merely the director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), until he was forced to resign as the investigation proceeded -- Michael Lockwood has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and three offences of rape against a girl under the age of 16. He denies the charges.

Just a bad apple. Allegedly.

[jimbob]

The US this time.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mississi ... cb99902e70

The announcement comes months after Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker said deputies from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department burst into a home without a warrant. The men said deputies beat them, assaulted them with a sex toy and shocked them repeatedly with Tasers in a roughly 90-minute period during the Jan. 24 episode, Jenkins and Parker said.

[Sciolus]

Another one for the record (from 20 June):

A former Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl and a fellow police officer.

Adam Provan, 44, of Newmarket, Suffolk, was convicted of six counts of raping the woman between 2003 and 2005.

He was also convicted of two counts of raping the teenager following a retrial. He met her on a blind date after lying about his age in 2010.

The offences happened while he was in the Met's East Area Command Unit.

Let's remind ourselves again of the wise words of Metropolitan Police Federation chairman Ken Marsh: “I think it is a bit disingenuous to say there could be another David Carrick or Wayne Couzens in the Met Police. I don’t think we will see another person like that in the police.”

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Metropolitan police officer Adam Provan has been jailed for 16 years after being convicted of six counts of rape of a female police officer while they were in a relationship and two counts of raping a 16 year old girl in 2010. She's now 29, just to emphasise how f.cking slowly the wheels of justice turn.

The woman complained to the Met about stalking and harassment by Provan in 2005. In a statement, she said she was labelled by fellow officers as a “griefy plonk”, making her reluctant to make a full statement at the time. She only came forward to report the rapes in 2019.

...an inspector had told Provan he would not be arrested or cautioned, and the crime would be shown as being “cleared up”.

It's very telling who the Met chose to protect - given the choice between a male officer accused of crimes and a female officer alleging she was a victim of crimes they chose to protect the perpetrator.

These women have fought hard to get this guy jailed.

Provan’s first trial for double rape ended in a hung jury but he was convicted in 2018 and jailed for nine years. The next year, he was dismissed from the Metropolitan police.

He served three years and three months in prison – only to be released on bail after the court of appeal quashed the conviction.

At the fresh trial, Taylor gave evidence for a third time, and six more charges of rape, relating to Provan’s earlier attacks on the female officer, were added.

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This is a sexual crime on a whole other level: undercover UK police officer deceived woman into 19-year relationship.

'Mary' met a man in 2001. He was 'charismatic but quiet' and they started dating in the early 2000s. He 'tried to win the family over', bringing her mum flowers and helping her dad when he needed a new car among other things. They had a serious, long-term relationship, and after a few years they had a son.

The man, who is not named or given a pseudonym, made 'Mary' believe that he was a businessman. In fact, he was an undercover police officer. There is no evidence that he was investigating Mary or anyone in her family, yet he used a fake identity for the entirety of their relationship, even using it on the birth certificate of their son.

In 2020 they got engaged and it was at this point that 'Mary' finally learned the truth.

In contrast, Avon and Somerset police, who were his employers, knew about the relationship in 2013. Around the same time, he left the police. Why and whether the relationship had anything to do with his departure is unclear. What is clear, is that the police didn't tell 'Mary' for another SEVEN YEARS. When they did, they "consistently put pressure" on the family to not speak publicly about the relationship, "warning of the risk of social unrest if the news got out".

The family have now concluded that they have been manipulated twice by police. First by an undercover officer who inveigled his way into their lives using a fake identity, in an extraordinarily callous intrusion that has irrevocably changed their lives. And latterly by his superiors, who have put pressure on them to collude in what the family allege is a cover-up.

I have no words.

[Boustrophedon]

And another.

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with six counts of rape, one count of making threats to kill and a count of breaching a non-molestation order.

PC Cliff Mitchell, 23, has been suspended from duty and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court later.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66737880

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These crimes by the police are shocking. How 'Mary' was treated after the fact will forever live in my mind.

Re the multiple rape of a woman by Cliff Mitchell, who is only 23 years old is also reprehensible.

A member of the public saw a woman in distress on Tuesday, and helped her into her car, the court was told.

The woman was found at about 13:50 BST in the street in Hackbridge, Sutton, south-west London.

She was found in the afternoon in a state of distress.

A friend who moved to Los Angeles was followed by an off duty police man when she went running in the morning, he did several turns on her run and constantly talked to her. A car with two women stopped and got her in because by then she was clearly in distress, they got her home safely. She did report it but it led to nowhere. He had previous form for doing this.