Sex Claims Made Against 2000 Serving UK Police Officers
Wayne Couzens never was an outlier. There exists a culture of inappropriate behaviour towards women.
It has emerged today that sex claims, including rape were made against 2,000 serving policemen, in the last four years.
According to internal sources, nearly two thirds of the officers accused walked away without suffering any consequences for their actions. It also did emerge that these incidents of sexual assault and corruption were usually covered up and in some extreme cases, deleted completely from the database.
These revelations are exacerbated by the fact that investigations into these allegations of misconduct are usually closed to public and nearly every one of the police forces currently functioning in the United Kingdom did go to extreme lengths to ensure that none of these misdemeanors got into the public space.
Wayne Couzens, who was convicted last week for his kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard is an interesting example: The online notice which detailed the crime of the former diplomatic officer has since been removed by the metropolitan police.
Hearings conducted by the police authority across the country into officers sleeping with drug dealers, theft from dead bodies were usually carried to protect the identity of those…