HOW TO BREAK UP THE METROPOLITAN VICIOUS BOYS CLUB.

In 2019 when Poly was 24, 1 year into her new role as a detective constable in THE INFAMOUS LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE, she was pulled into her supervisors office for her performance meeting which she had been dreading. From the very start her work had been criticised by her male supervisor, a respected detective who had been with the Met for decades. Poly stated. "He tore me apart, he told me my work was poor and my attitude did not fit with what a detective should be. He took issue with the fact that I didn't buy the biscuits and make the tea for the rest of the team often enough." Poly endured constant put down for another year. It was not until she plucked up the courage to speak to a female inspector, that she found out 3 complaints had been made against the male detective, by other female inspectors in the department; women who outranked him. "That told me everything I needed to know." Baroness Caseys' damning 360 page report published on 21st March 2023, provided an extraordinary glimpse into the misogyny ingrained within the force, it stated. "Female officers and staff routinely face sexism and misogyny, the Met has not protected its female employees or members f the public from police perpetrators of domestic abuse, nor those who abuse their position for sexual purposes." The report is the culmination of a catastrophic 2 years for the countrys' biggest police force, beginning in 2021, with the murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, a police constable and firearms officer. Then in October 2022 Sir Mark Rowley the Met commissioner, admitted 100s more officers would be getting away with criminal behaviour or misconduct. Stringent employment laws make it difficult for them to be sacked. The publics' trust in senior police officers is at a record low of 41%, according to YouGov. Female officers are, perhaps could be the key to rebuilding that trust. At the start of March 2023, Sergeant Jenny Jose was handing out personal security alarms at Greenwich University when 2 women walked up. "I'm scared of the police, when I see the uniform I think something bad is going to happen to me." Said Sofia who is studying to be a paramedic. Jenny explained. "Hostility is a normal part of the job now." Jenny Jose was 1 of the many police officers drafted in from Greater London, to help scour the woodland in Ashford, Kent, where Sarah Everards' body was found. Like many women Jenny was absolutely sickened by Couzens' crime, but she deals with the fallout on a daily basis. Members of the public now regularly call and ask if they can speak to a female officer. "The answer is no we don't have enough of anybody to be able to make that choice. But we do try and send an appropriate person." As well as reassuring an anxious public, female officers would help break up the male silos identified by Baroness Casey, where disturbing sexist attitudes thrive. In the notorious, indecorous firearms department 90% are male, 92% are white. Despite years of supposed effort(((IF THEY HAD WANTED CHANGE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY NOW))) with the introduction of term-time roles, job shares, improved maternity benefits, the number of women in the Met remains extremely low, near to non-existent. In 2021-22 female recruits was 39%; up from the 2013-14 total of 29%. The Met still has the lowest count of female officers in the country, the real problem is retaining the female. Female officers/detectives are leaving in droves, with many driven out by misogyny/dudgeon they feel they will never be able to change. 1 of these is Isabelle 29, a former detective who left the force recently after just a few years. She chose the Met because she wanted a frontline job, that would make a difference to society. She had heard of the Mets failings but wanted to be part of the change that would make it better. She now says she was naive. "I went in thinking I was going to challenge people, but after a while it becomes draining and demoralising." Many women find themselves in a cul-de-sac. "You have to get promoted to make any kind of change, but women feel they could be held back from promotion for calling things out. I realised I was going to have to get on with the job, in a system that isn't fit for purpose until I could get promoted, to a level where I could make a real difference. I concluded I wasn't prepared to do that." Isabelle stated. In 2017, the Met allowed recruits with degrees to go directly into detective work, without gaining uniformed experience.(((ANY SORT OF EXPERIENCE IN ALL REALITY))) While this has boosted recruitment particularly with women, who might have been deterred by the physical aspect of the job, it means the rank + file of uniformed PCs are male dominated." The uniform world is a little bit more like being at uni. Everybody is a lot younger, there is more of a party atmosphere, they're all sleeping with each other and, there are initiations." Polly added. Those detailed in the Baroness' report included : eating cheesecake until you vomited; being urinated on in the shower; being sexually debased. Jenny Jose stated after 20 years in the Met, she has never experienced sexism, then added. "I can't say it doesn't exist." Yet when sexism is reported it is always mishandled.(((ON PURPOSE? PROBABLY BY MALE INVESTIGATORS))) A few years ago Pollys' friend in the Met at the time, reported a male colleague for sexual harassment. "She had to carry on working in the same office as him, while the investigation was going on." Tom Harper, author of "Broken Yard : The Fall of the Metropolitan Police," agrees that simply recruiting women at all levels is not the answer, to bringing about systematic change. Women in positions of power. "Need to be confident enough to take these issues on, rather than gaining promotion by doing and saying the right thing, within this toxic culture." Tom Harper points to the fact that Dame Cressida Dick was Met commissioner, along side other senior female officers were present, when these problems were identified in the Baroness' report. "Those women have not been very sisterlyin their attempts to nullify, tackle the ongoing toxic culture, that has allowed this misogyny to flouris for so long. At the same time I would say it's extremely difficult for one person at the top of the Met, to change that culture. It's so ingrained and systemic. It's like turning an oil tanker around." Harriet Wistrich, the founder of of the Centre for Womens Justice, a legal charity in east London that works with victims of male violence and police abuse stated. "Policing across the board where it's a Met problem is that you have these elite units, like firearms, undercover police, identified in the report as having some of the worst behaviours. One solution would be for the Met to seize control of these infested units." A domestic abuse and sexual offending unit has already been set up to investigate Met officers accused of these offences.(((I AM BETTING 90% OF THE INVESTIGATORS ARE WHITE MALE, WASTED EFFORT & TIME. DISMANTLE ALL THESE INVESTIGATIVE OFFICES, THEN BRING IN EXTERNAL FEMALE INVESTIGATORS WHO HAVE NO CONNECTIONS WITH POLICING WHATSOEVER.))) The Baroness Casey also identified that the Met is 1 of the biggest police forces in he world at 34,000 officers; perhaps it needs to be sub-divided into more localised police units. Polly says things have already started to change, especially when it comes to misconduct. The Met feels as though it is; "In the middle of a purge of the riffraff, the harassers-the people who have been able to get away for so long." She had heard of an instance of sexual assault at a Christmas Party, where an officer touched another member of staff inappropriately. "A year ago there might have been a question mark over whether he might be charged with gross misconduct. Now there is no question about it. He's out of the job and he's been given a sexual assault criminal conviction. There are no more 2nd chances." But the lights dim as for the Metropolitan Police as a whole, it may be too little too late. AN ANONYMOUS ACCOUNT OF OPEN UNIFORMED POLICE DEBASEMENT. "Baroness Casey' report on the extent of sexism, racism, and homophobia in the Metropolitan Police only reinforced my view of an institution that allows misogyny to fester unchecked. I had an encounter with a police officer almost 10 years ago, that left me sickened and deeply distrustful of the officers employed to keep us safe. In August 2013, aged 22, I was visiting London from Scotland, where I attended the Notting Hill Carnival with a female friend. Mid-afternoon my phone ran out of battery, we found ourselves lost in the middle of a crowd. I approached a uniformed officer, asked him politely for directions he told me. "I'll give you directions but not unless you give me your number first." I laughed out loud. I was shocked, quite frankly I thought he was joking. But he was insistent, he wouldn't give me directions unless I gave him my number. "Give him your number and we can go home." My friend nudged. I'd been put on the spot, was a bit drunk, I did not feel I had much choice. So I gave him my number and he told us where to go. "I can't believe he did that." We said laughing nervously as we walked off. I thought nothing of it until I charged my phone, then turned it back about 5 hours later. 1 by 1 text messages came through from him asking if I'd come to his hotel. Then there were the calls, 1 after the other about 5 of them which I didn't answer. Then he messaged me again to ask for naked photos, he said he would reciprocate. I ignored him. It didn't stop there. Over the next weeks he sent me more messages, I never replied, but it was astonishing how persistent he was. I received my final message from him 1 year later. When details of Sarah Everards murder cam to light in 2021, I shared my experience on social media. The following evening I was called by a police officer from the Met, who was investigating allegations made on social media. It turned out that I had given my number to the police when I reported a theft in 2014, they had cross-referenced my social media profile with that case. I was asked by a very bristly female officer, if I wanted to make a formal complaint against the officer, who was still serving and had been promoted in the years since. I would have to make a written statement. Then the Independent Office for Police Conduct(((NOT REALLY INDEPENDENT AS SUCH AS X-POLICE OFFICERS CAN APPLY TO BECOME INVESTIGATORS ON THE TEAM))) would decide whether the officer had committed misconduct, gross misconduct, or nothing at all. The same female officer informed me that it was likely to be judged misconduct, if anything. Because 8 years had passed since the incident, the officer was unlikely to be disciplined. The allegation was unlikely to be on his employment record.(((SO BEWARE IF YOU CONSIDER EMPLOYING X-POLICEMAN RETIRED, LEFT THE JOB, WHICHEVER, WHAT ARE THEY HIDING, WHAT ARE THEIR POLICE FORCES HIDING AS WELL???))) 1 other crucial detail : they insisted I remove my post from my social media. I suspected this had been their ploy along. It took a few weeks to make my decision . I was hesitant for several reasons : the ease with which the police were able to contact me; it had been 8 years I felt guilty, I did not want to ruin someones career; he had abused his authority; was I to blame because I gave him my number; would anyone believe my word against his; in the grand scheme of things what happened to me was trivial. Mainly the more I thought about it, the more I realised I did not trust their process. I believed my complaint would not make a difference. After a lengthy consideration I decided not to uphold my complaint. Fearing repercussions I also deleted my social media post. But I wish now that I had been braver. Every time I see a story about police misconduct, I click it with bated breath. I hope I never have to read his name.

2 METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFICERS : JOHNATHAN CLAPHAM + SAM FRANKS SACKED OVER "RACIST STOP + SEARCH OF ANGLO/AFRICAN ATHLETE BIANCA WILLIAMS + PORTUGUESE AFRICAN RICARDO DOS SANTOS. The disciplinary chairwoman Chiew Yin Jones, said the conduct of PC Clapham + PC Franks had breached standards of professional behaviour for honesty + integrity, which amounted to Gross Misconduct. The Met Officers who were part of a territorial support group unit, tasked with helping cut back gang and knife crime; were dismissed without notice. (((this is the part I do not understand. The panel had no backbone I guess???))) However the panel found it NOT PROVEN : that PCs Clapham + Franks did not breach the standards of professional behaviour in respect of equality and diversity. 3 other officers Acting-Sergeant Rachel Simpson, PCs Allan Casey + Michael Bond were also found not to have breached any standards. The Independent Office for Police Conduct said. "Excessive, unreasonable and unjustified detention of the athletes, was because they were Black." Speaking after the outcome Mr. Dos Santos stated. "We've supported the IOPC case over the past three years and, it's highlighted what most Black people are far too aware of, regardless of their background, education and employment. They are nine times likely to be stopped by the Met. Three times more likely ot be handcuffed. The allegations made by the police officers that I was guilty of bad driving, threatening violence and drugs were dishonest. I believe these are false allegations and were based on racist stereotypes and show, that very little has changed in London policing since the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993. After which a public enquiry concluded the Met was institutionally racist." The Mayor of London Mr. Sadiq Khan also stated. "The findings of the disciplinary hearing will anger and alarm many Londoners and, just shows the scale of the challenge, the new leadership team have, to change the culture of the Met. It is vital that lessons are learned from incident and, I will support and hold the Met as well as the Commissioner to account, on delivering the urgent improvements needed, so that every Londoner can feel protected and served."