The Commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Service, Sir Mark Rowley, has issued an apology to the city’s LGBT+ community for historical homophobic persecution by the force NickMDuffy reports
Promising a new “plan for LGBT+ Londoners”, he added: “I am sorry to all of the communities we have let down for the failings of the past and look forward to building a new Met for London, one all Londoners can be proud of and in which they can have confidence.”
He said: “Police have apologised all around the world for their behaviour all those years ago. I think it is about time the British police did the same thing and said we are so sorry for what happened, because it was unnecessary. It was homophobic. “Past injustices often cross my mind and this is one of them. The bloody cheek of them. It was disgusting, it was just offensive. We were being treated like animals. Pure homophobia that’s what it was. And nothing else will make me change my mind. So apologise, because I know where you are!”
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