Starmer asks to reform the London Metropolitan Police “from start to finish” and even advocates a name change

Jan. 19 () –

The leader of the United Kingdom Labor Party, Keir Starmer, has advocated reforming the London Metropolitan Police “from start to finish” after the scandal of David Carrick, an agent who this week has acknowledged dozens of sexual assaults, and has even advocated for changing the name of the department.

For the leader of the British opposition, the events acknowledged by Carrick are “incredibly shocking”, although he considers that there were also other scandals within Scotland Yard, such as the murder of Sarah Everard at the hands of Wayne Couzens, an officer in service.

“A bottom-up review is needed, a cultural change, because it’s not just the perpetrators, it’s those who allowed this to happen, (those who) didn’t take action when they should have,” Starmer said during an interview for the News Agents podcast, collected by ‘The Guardian’.

At this point, Starmer has alluded to the comprehensive reform that took place around the Royal Uslter Police, the Northern Irish police force that, after the Good Friday Agreements, changed its name to the Northern Ireland Police Service.

“It was very important that it was called the Northern Ireland Police Service because it changed the way the force was seen, it was a service to the public, not a police force,” Starmer has defended, praising this change in nomenclature as a step ” very important” in trying to achieve peace in Northern Ireland at the end of the 20th century.

Next, his interlocutor asked him if, in view of the controversies surrounding the London Metropolitan Police, he would advise his daughter to ask an agent for help in case she was lost on the street late at night.

Starmer, for his part, has responded with a resounding “yes” to also emphasize the importance of conveying an idea of ​​trust regarding the country’s police officers. “I understand the concerns that many people may have about it. But yes, I would,” he has settled.