The police watchdog has launched four separate investigations into the Metropolitan Police’s handling of reports about former officer and serial rapist David Carrick AlannahFrancis1 reports
They range in rank from police constable to chief inspector. Six of the people being investigated were, at the time, from the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards.
A 2019 report of a woman being attacked and dragged out of Carrick’s house by him, which was investigated by Hertfordshire Constabulary. No further action was taken in respect of the alleged crime but Hertfordshire made the Met’s DPS aware of the allegations. IOPC regional director Mel Palmer said Carrick’s offending was “horrendous”, “shocked the public and cast a dark shadow on policing”.
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