Susanna Reed feels ‘frightened’ for women in London after being found guilty of a Met police report

Susanna Reid today claimed she’s ‘scared’ for women in London after shocking report revealed how badly The Met failed rape victims An officer said, “I’m not going to report it to the police – And I advise my friends and family not to do that either.

Ms Louise Casey found that victims of rape and domestic violence felt like “an inconvenience”, and another policewoman said the force detection rate for rape was so low “you could say it’s legal in London”.

A year-long investigation following the murder of Sarah Everard has exposed a ‘broken and corrupt’ Scotland Yard as the force has been warned it could be dismantled by the most scathing report in its almost 200-year history.

Ms Louise cited the storage of rape evidence as a symbol of how Scotland Yard had “lost its way”, with a refrigerator full of intimate swabs and material being dumped after it broke down – leading to the rapists “walking free”. At a police station, a lunchbox was found next to sex crime samples.

An officer claims she raped a colleague of mine while they were dating they were dating. ‘If I went through the same things I once went through, I wouldn’t 100% report it and would advise my friends and family not to either,’ I told Ms. Louise. Not worth it. I will not report it to the police.

Today on Good Morning Britain, Ms Reid challenged the Met’s commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, about what’s gone wrong with the force – particularly when it comes to crimes against women.

Susannah cited Casey’s report, released today, in which an officer said: “If you look at our performance on rape and serious sexual offences, the detection rate is so low, you could also say ‘It’s legal in London.'” One community official added: “Best result is to close a report to reduce your workload.”

‘To be honest,’ said Mrs. Reed, ‘reading, I am really scared. Because this kind of message being posted is not helpful to women in London. Another issue is making victims of rape and domestic violence feel like a nuisance, in part because the officers are overworked and inexperienced.

Sir Mark Rowley said he agreed with Ms Reid’s comments, adding: “We certainly want victims to come forward.”

Today, Baroness Casey said she doesn’t fully trust the Metropolitan Police will handle a rape or sexual assault report properly.

Asked if she would report such abuse to the Met, Baroness Casey told the Radio Times: “So, as a woman, I think it’s very important that when we’re abused, we always, always make sure it’s recorded.”

When asked if she was confident that the force would treat her right, she said: ‘No, I don’t have complete confidence that they will treat her right.

And I know that’s a terrible thing to say, but this is the biggest thing they have to change. It still means we have to move on.

In her review, Baroness Casey finds that evidence from her countless rape investigations, including swabs, blood, urine and underwear, has been destroyed by broken hardware.

Baroness Casey found that all the refrigerators used in the rape kits were in poor condition, packed and destroyed evidence. She described refrigerators filled with evidence samples, packaged or taped shut.

In a heatwave last year, one collapsed and all the rape victims whose samples were in that refrigerator were told their cases would be dropped.

The forensic kits that preserve evidence obtained from survivors of sexual violence are so stuffed so completely into the hardware that it takes three officers to close it—one to push the door shut, one to lock it, and one to secure the lock.

One officer said she “lost count” the number of times she asked a colleague for the necessary evidence before telling her it was missing.

Another officer spoke of waiting a year for toxicology results and a forensic examination of the phones.

Separately, police have been told to regularly delete their WhatsApp messages in the wake of a series of scandals about officers exchanging hateful messages with each other.

One officer said: ‘If you look at our performance in terms of rape, serious sexual offences, the detection rate is very low, and you might as well say it’s legal in London.

It’s kind of a reflection of the way we treat and view our female colleagues. The victim is blamed, looking at the situation and not believing it.

Deputy Commissioner Ms Lynn Owens admitted yesterday that she does not know how many cases have been dropped as a result of the refrigerator problems.

Today, Baroness Casey said she doesn’t fully trust the Metropolitan Police will handle a rape or sexual assault report properly.

Interviewed for the report, rape victims described being told they “should have, and could have done more” to protect themselves by cynical, rude, and indifferent interrogators.

Many officers are desperate to close cases with the NFA – “no more action”. One admitted: “The incentive is to get him an NFA because we have to do a lot of work to get him and then the CPS will do the NFA anyway.”

A female officer who gave evidence for the report, identified only as “G,” said that one of her male colleagues also failed to understand why the case was aggravated rape.

He actually said “If you put Donny in your e**h, you said ‘uh’, you were screaming and you stopped because you were screaming, is that still rape?” I was just asking what team he should be dealing with.

Another quipped while dealing with a historical rape allegation: “Well, if you told me ten years ago I’d be talking about sex all day I would never have believed it.”

The report found that The Met had failed its officers as well as the public.

One of the female officers identified as A, who said she was beaten and raped multiple times by Officer X, was so distraught by the force’s handling of the case that she attempted suicide.

The case was passed between six different investigators in one year, with A being asked to give her account of what happened each time, and forced to move the team to get away from her abuser.

She said, ‘I was feeling so angry and so frustrated at them and decided I couldn’t do it anymore, I’m done, I need to get on with my life, I was in an absolute binge, I tried to kill myself that year because of the police investigation, it was draining my life.

After two years of investigation, no action has been taken.