Watching BBC Breakfast earlier and now BBC News I am appalled by the statement from Sir Mark Rowley. There are about 45,000 staff in the Met Police Force and apparently there are about 1,000 allegations of sexual and domestic abuse against 800 officers.
Rowley said "We have let London down, he has been a police officer for 20 years and through a combination of weak policies and weak decisions over those 20 years we missed opportunities when he joined and subsequently as behaviour came to the fore we should have removed him from policing."
Rowley continued "We are systematically reviewing every member of police staff and police officer who we have any historic flags against for being involved in any incident involving domestic abuse or sexual violence. I am sure some of those will turn out to be nothing of concern but many will turn out, sadly, to be of concern and I've been candid, I've got tens of thousands of fantastic men and women but I've got hundreds who shouldn't be here and I am going to sort it out."
I hope that such a review will also investigate the people who failed to act properly and sufficiently in response to the allegations.
Are the depraved acts of Carrick and Couzens just the tip of the iceberg?