"Britain's largest police force has been described as institutionally misogynistic after widespread claims that a toxic sexist culture has been allowed to thrive for decades. Imran Patel resigned from his job as a police constable last year after several reports about his conduct at work over a nine-month period. He was also subject to a fraud investigation, but has been told he will not face criminal prosecution."
"She said: Sarah Everard's murder and other horrific crimes perpetrated by serving Met officers against women in London have shone a light on the shocking treatment of, and attitudes towards, women in the Met. Despite improvements in gender representation and increasingly flexible working practices, women are not treated equally in the workforce, with new women recruits resigning at four times the rate of all probationers; and a third of Met women we surveyed reporting personally experiencing sexism at work, with 12% reporting directly"
Imran Patel resigned from the Metropolitan police after multiple reports about his conduct over nine months and a concurrent fraud investigation that will not result in criminal prosecution. He is accused of using sex workers and accessing adult websites while on shift in May 2022 during an independent review into behaviour and culture. The review was commissioned by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, after serving officer Wayne Couzens abducted, raped and murdered Sarah Everard. Couzens used his parliamentary and diplomatic protection warrant card to pretend to arrest Everard for breaching Covid regulations. The review concluded the force was institutionally misogynistic, noting high resignation rates among new women recruits and widespread reports of sexism.
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