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[raincitygirl]

Fucking hell. Gakked from legionseagle, it sounds like a specialist sex crimes police detective may have been falsifying evidence to ensure charges were not laid in sex crimes in London, England.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. And people wonder why so many women are reluctant to press charges.

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[legionseagle]

It's even worse than it looks. There are two detectives in the unit in question who are under investigation and the unit itself was set up as a response to the culpable failure - as established on an enquiry - of the existing detective force to investigate multiple reports of a serial rapist who was a cabbie whose modus operandi was to claim he was celebrating something and offer champagne to his passengers, and then overpower (drug?) them; the police had routinely discounted complaints on the basis that the women must have got drunk and consented.

[raincitygirl]

Oh, lovely. This story just gets better and better.

I mean, if this new unit was supposed to be the "new broom" and now TWO of the new broom detectives are under investigation, it sounds like the entire Met needs a refresher course on ethics in policing.

On the bright side, at least it's coming out, and not being covered up.