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Secret filming exposes misogyny and racism inside London's Met Police · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: A reporter for BBC Panorama, has spent seven months undercover
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  Speaker 1: at a major police station in London to find out
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  Speaker 1: whether the Metropolitan Police Force has changed following a highly
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  Speaker 1: critical report into its culture more than two years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Rory Bibb got a job at charing Cross Police Station
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  Speaker 1: and filmed some of what he witnessed during his time there.
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  Speaker 1: His footage reveals racism, officers bragging about the use of
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  Speaker 1: force and misogyny. As a result of his investigation, eleven people,
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  Speaker 1: most of them serving officers, are under investigation for potential
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  Speaker 1: gross misconduct. I must warn you that this report contains
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  Speaker 1: discriminatory and misogynistic language from the very start. Here is
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  Speaker 1: Emma Vadi, the.
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  Speaker 2: Smilenes of stuff, m smile and side. Any cool person
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  Speaker 2: is the worst deal with.
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  Speaker 3: This is an off duty metropology and police officer, PC
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  Speaker 3: Phil Nielson talking about some of the communities of London.
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  Speaker 3: He polices, I'm the ones that are great women, you
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  Speaker 3: do and let them.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen too many crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Their way of life.
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  Speaker 3: Is not the correct way and life and referring to cases,
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  Speaker 3: he says he's dealt with his headfort whether on or
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  Speaker 3: off duty, The behavior of police officers is governed by
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  Speaker 3: rules laid out in law they should not discriminate. But
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  Speaker 3: two and a half years ago, an independent review concluded
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  Speaker 3: the met was institutionally homophobic, misogynistic and racist. Panorama went
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  Speaker 3: under cover to find out if it had changed after
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  Speaker 3: whistleblowers provided evidence about Charing Cross.
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  Speaker 4: Bring the Buzzers.
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  Speaker 3: Our reporter Rory Bibb worked for seven months at Charing
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  Speaker 3: Cross in a civilian role as a designated detention office.
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  Speaker 3: He filmed evidence of racist attitudes and what appeared to
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  Speaker 3: be the mistreatment of people who'd been arrested. PC Martin
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  Speaker 3: Borg is talking about this where a sergeant can be
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  Speaker 3: seen on CCTV stomping down twice. The officers suggested the
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  Speaker 3: man tried to kick the sergeant first. He was being
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  Speaker 3: restrained at the time. Martin Borg, who was in the cell,
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  Speaker 3: joked about how he and his sergeant discussed what they'd
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  Speaker 3: write in their statements about the incident.
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  Speaker 2: He might to absolutely decides, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: We also filmed officers bragging about the use of force.
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  Speaker 2: I love taking fingers, poport, give me a finger prints. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to break your fingers if you don't give
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  Speaker 2: them today.
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  Speaker 1: So we grabbed the other two fingers and you pull
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  Speaker 1: really hard.
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  Speaker 2: It snaps attendant.
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  Speaker 3: This officer describes how he dealt with the man wearing
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  Speaker 3: leg restraints in the back of a police fan.
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  Speaker 2: At the back of his legs, trying to get the
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  Speaker 2: drop to the He's just smashing his head off the top.
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  Speaker 1: All right, fine, it's never got to complain.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know if the officers actually hurt people or
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  Speaker 3: if it was just bravado. The Met insists its culture
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  Speaker 3: has changed, but our filming suggests some of its officers
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  Speaker 3: have not. They're just more careful about who they share
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  Speaker 3: their views with.
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  Speaker 2: Trust you.
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  Speaker 1: Someone new joints.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to figure them out what you can't say.
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  Speaker 2: Don't startle your head being stupid.
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  Speaker 3: There were times Rory filmed officers at Charing Cross working
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  Speaker 3: professionally and with empathy, but he also spent many hours
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  Speaker 3: on duty seeing openly misogynistic behavior.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot of too.
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  Speaker 4: That's the real one of them, fat one.
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  Speaker 3: This was Rory's sergeant Joe mcilvenny. Here the custody team
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  Speaker 3: are discussing a man accused of rape and domestic violence.
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  Speaker 2: Stamp.
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  Speaker 3: The man had been released on bail.
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  Speaker 4: That's what she says.
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  Speaker 3: His dismissive approach infuriates a female colleague.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what she says, which was pregnant, cool, but I can't.
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  Speaker 4: In other words, he doesn't believe her.
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  Speaker 3: We showed our evidence to Sue Fish once, Chief Constable
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  Speaker 3: of Nottinghamshire Police.
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  Speaker 4: Individuals like him have the power to make those sorts
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  Speaker 4: of decisions about my safety are the women's safety and
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  Speaker 4: that isrrifying, absolutely terrifying.
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  Speaker 3: After the BBC wrote to the met detailing our evidence,
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  Speaker 3: the four said eight officers from charing Cross and one
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  Speaker 3: staff member had been suspended. Another two officers were removed
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  Speaker 3: from frontline duties. We contacted the individual officers identified in
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  Speaker 3: the program. They've not responded. The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police,
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  Speaker 3: Sir Mark Rowley, told Panorama the behavior outlined is disgraceful
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  Speaker 3: and the Met has taken immediate and unprecedented action. He
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  Speaker 3: added much more needs to be done to tackle the
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  Speaker 3: individuals and cliques whose appalling behavior continues to let down
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  Speaker 3: their colleagues and Londoners.
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  Speaker 4: I saw a little dig in the back of the A.
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  Speaker 3: Rory was at times worn to be careful about what
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  Speaker 3: he said.
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  Speaker 2: Talkers all, we took big complainant.
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  Speaker 4: I'm there, I'll still learn.
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  Speaker 3: Our investigations suggests that a toxic culture in the met
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been eliminated, It's been driven under ground. Emma Vardi
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