MET FAILS ON ABUSE COPS

Only a fraction of Met abuse claims lead fo dismissal

- BY JOHN SIDDLE & SCOTT HESKETH

METROPOLITAN Police bosses sacked just 12 officers accused of domestic abuse in six years – despite 421 being investigated. 

And three in every four internal cases probed by the UK’s biggest force led to no action at all.

The figures uncovered by the Sunday Mirror come just weeks after the London force was plunged into fresh scandal over David Carrick, the protection officer unmasked as one of Britain’s worst rapists.

Domestic abuse survivor Natasha Saunders called our findings “absolutely disgusting”.