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Serial Rapist.

Cullpepper

I've just been reading a 'breaking news' story on the Bbc website about a serving Met policeman who has been found guilty of numerous rapes and sexual assaults, going back over a period of 20yrs. How could that go on for such a long time undetected. It's not unusual ro read about men in power taking advantage of their position. The Met seem to get more than their fair share of mentions. Surely the people he worked with suspected  something.  When you think, the police are there to protect us, a place to go if we feel threatend, how do stories like this make you feel, especially if you're a woman.

  • Fun fact about the police only 1% of complaints ever see the light of day

  • in reply to Shardovan

    That's probably why there are so many tbh. if you sacked all those with 'red flags' the force would be 20% smaller. It's understaffed as it is.

  • No. There is no reliable way to weed out rapists except for their victims to come forward (or be found in the case of murders) and the evidence gathered. There is no look or demeanour that says rapist. The only way to get them is through evidence.

    The most important thing for stoping rapists, in my opinion, is persuading victims to come forward as soon as posable while evidence is still available. Bodily fluids that can be collected, bruises that can be photographed, blood that can be analysed for drugs. The sooner the better because just maybe you can find 3rd party witnesses who saw something suspicions that way.

    In any criminal case the 2 weakest form of evidence are the testimony of the accused and the accuser. They are generally the 2 most biased parties in any case. If that's all the evidence you have for a rape case its often not worth bringing to court. If we want to fix the apaulingly low conviction rates we need to get victims in having forensics done within 24 hours of the crime preferably a lot less.

    If you want my opinion there should be a separate number aside from 999 to ring if you've been the victim of a sex crime. Where you get picked up and taken immediately to hospital where a doctor and councillor will both treat you and gather evidence which they are legally obliged to pass onto the police. And we need to teach people this number when they are young so ringing it is almost automatic. Alongside the green cross code and that sort of thing. "did a bad person touch you in your no no place? then ring 555." That sort of thing.

  • Plus he was a firearms officer, they should have more thorough vetting than any other. I had to have vetting to work in a 'Schedule 5 lab' with Botulinum toxin. If they vet scientists, surely they can vet police officers.

  • in reply to Shardovan

    1 in 5 !! That.s a big percentage. But it seems to be the papers all the time, not just police but teachers; politicians, even  priests. And yet when i drove my Cab we had to have regular checksm and if you didn't pass, you didn't get a licence.

  • Wasnt there some recent admission from the police ombudsman or something that one in five of recruited officers should not have been vetted for service, due to what should be red flags?