Dame Cressida Dick, head of London’s Metropolitan Police, has resigned from her job after losing the backing of London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Dick released a shocking statement on Thursday evening, announcing she was stepping down from the job, despite having insisted hours earlier that she had no intention of going. She said in the statement:…
Metropolitan Police Chief Resigns After Losing London Mayor’s Backing
UK to Deploy Undercover Police Outside Clubs to Protect Women
The UK’s biggest police force on Wednesday unveiled a plan to deploy undercover officers outside bars and clubs in a bid to reduce violence against women and girls. The measure is part of the Metropolitan Police’s plans designed to ensure women’s safety after Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was raped and murdered by a…
Plain-Clothed Police Officers to Video-Call Supervisors When Stopping Lone Women
Lone plain-clothed officers will video-call a uniformed supervisor while engaging with lone women to show proof of their identities, the Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday. The measure is designed to ensure women’s safety after Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was raped and murdered by a police officer, who fake-arrested her while she was walking…
UK Police Commissioner Resigns Over Comments About Murdered Woman
A British police commissioner resigned on Thursday over his comment about the murder of a woman in the hands of a then-serving police officer. Philip Allott, the resigned police, fire, and crime commissioner (PCC) for North Yorkshire who was accused of victim-blaming, apologised again for his comment, saying he “misspoke” and was “devastated” by the…
UK Eyes ‘Walk Me Home’ Phone-Tracker to Protect Lone Women
LONDON—A top British government official is backing a phone company’s proposal for a new tracking service to help protect women walking alone, an idea pitched amid ongoing outrage over the slayings of two young women who were targeted near their homes in London. The chief executive of Britain’s biggest phone company, BT, proposed the “walk…
Inquiry to Examine Police Failures Exposed by Sarah Everard Murder
A new inquiry has been launched to identify systemic failures that allowed Sarah Everard’s murderer to be employed as a police officer, the Home Office announced on Tuesday. Wayne Couzens, 48, was jailed for life on Thursday for the kidnap, rape, and murder of the 33-year-old marketing executive. Couzens was a serving Metropolitan Police officer when he abducted…
Making Misogyny Hate Crime Will Increase the Problem: Boris Johnson
Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday dismissed the suggestion that misogyny should be made a hate crime. The sentencing of Wayne Couzens, who abducted, raped, and murdered 33-year-old Sarah Everard in March when he was a serving police officer, has reignited calls to add women into the protective categories listed in the hate crime law…
Met Officer Denies Rape Allegation in Court
A Metropolitan police officer has been remanded in custody on Monday after denying a rape allegation in court. The hearing came as Britain’s criminal justice system is under pressure to prosecute rape allegations more aggressively in the wake of Sarah Everard’s abduction, rape, and murder in March by then-serving Met officer Wayne Couzens. Met officer David…
British Criminal Justice System Not “Institutionally Misogynistic”: Truss
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss rejected the claim that the UK’s criminal justice system was “institutionally misogynistic” in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder. Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was walking home in the evening on March 3 after having dinner at a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, when she was kidnapped by then-Metropolitan police officer…
UK Police Must Work Hard to Rebuild Trust After Sarah Everard Murder: Minister
The abduction, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard by a London police officer has dealt a “devastating blow” to public confidence and police officers will have to do more to rebuilt trust, the UK’s policing minister Kit Malthouse said on Friday. Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was walking home in the evening on March 3…
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