Revealed: Paedophile PC and officer who ‘tied woman up and cut her with knife’ among dozens facing sack

Britain’s policing crisis has deepened as The Independent can reveal a paedophile officer and another who tied a woman up and cut her are among dozens facing the sack.

At least 39 officers are to face misconduct hearings across England and Wales over the coming weeks, including 23 from the Metropolitan Police alone. Among the worst offenders from across the country are:

• An officer who accessed the police database to download indecent images of child victims

• Another who sent sexually explicit messages, photographs and videos to female colleagues

• A sergeant who used his position to strike up a relationship with a domestic violence victim he met through a case

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley this week revealed that he expected “two or three officers going to court” for separate criminal cases every week for the next few months, with many facing accusations of sexual offences and domestic abuse.

He admitted that Britain’s largest force had more than “just a few bad apples” and warned that “more painful stories” would be unearthed as Scotland Yard intensifies efforts to find and sack unsuitable officers.

In the latest case, a Safer Schools officer admitted a string of child sex offences including grooming teenage girls.

PC Hussain Chehab appeared in court just days after serial rapist David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 offences, including 24 rapes, against 12 women dating back to 2003.

Following Carrick’s admissions, a Met Police trawl uncovered more than 1,000 officers and staff who had been allowed to remain in the force after allegations of sexual misconduct and domestic abuse.

Sir Mark told the London Assembly that some allegations were found to have been resolved, some people are being re-vetted and some new investigations were just beginning.

Forces are unable to formally dismiss officers or hold misconduct hearings if any criminal proceedings are underway, meaning that further disciplinary cases will be scheduled as prosecutions move through the courts.

Scotland Yard was unable to provide figures showing whether the number of disciplinary cases had increased.

Jamie Klinger, a co-founder of the Reclaim These Streets campaign group formed after the murder of Sarah Everard, said the “continued cycle of excuses” has to stop.

“They keep saying they want to rebuild trust with women and girls but they never say how,” she told The Independent.

“The Met can’t move on culturally without a huge change in training … and they need to immediately stop officers who are under investigation [for offences against women] from working with vulnerable people and on domestic abuse cases.”

Anti-domestic abuse campaigner David Challen, who successfully fought for his mother to be freed from prison after she killed his abusive father, said “the scale of police abuse still being uncovered is outrageous”.

“The Met has shown it cannot be trusted to root out abusers within their ranks,” he added. “A statutory inquiry is needed to have any hope at creating the radical reform and meaningful accountability needed to build back trust.”

Following the Carrick case, all forces in England and Wales were ordered by the government to check their officers and staff against databases to identify any allegations or intelligence that should be investigated. That includes past accusations of domestic abuse or sexual offences that saw no action.

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