London's Met Police: May have more officers like Couzens and Carrick

It comes as the review also shared that there may be more officers like killer Wayne Couzens and serial rapist David Carrick in the Metropolitan Police.

In the review by Baroness Louise Casey, she found that the Metropolitan Police failed to protect the public from officers who abuse women, organisational changes have put women and children at greater risk and female officers and staff routinely experience sexism. 

The review also found that there are racist officers and staff adding that a “deep-seated homophobia” exists in the organisation.

Met Police described as racist, misogynist and homophobic in new report

Baroness Casey was commissioned to review the Met following the murder of Sarah Everard. 

Asked if there could be more officers like Couzens and Carrick in the force, she said: “I cannot sufficiently assure you that that is not the case.”

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said he accepts the “diagnosis” of prejudice in the force, but would not use the term institutional because he views it as politicised and ambiguous.

Speaking to PA new agency, Baroness Casey said she was disappointed that he would not accept the term, but said she will wait to see what action the force takes in the coming weeks and months.

The new report's findings of institutionally racist echo that of the Macpherson Inquiry in 1999, which took place after Stephen Lawrence’s murder and the abject failures in how the Met investigated his death.

Since the 1999 inquiry, the Met has remained largely white and male, the review found.

The police force was also accused of homophobia over the failure to stop serial killer Stephen Port after he took the life of his first victim and went on to murder three more men, but force bosses denied there was an issue.

Relatives of the victims have called for a public inquiry into the force in the wake of the report.

Review calls for 'overhaul' of Met amid failings 

Following the report, Baroness Casey has called for the Met to “change itself”, adding: “It is not our job as the public to keep ourselves safe from the police. It is the police’s job to keep us safe as the public.

“Far too many Londoners have now lost faith in policing to do that.”

Her 363-page report, published on Tuesday, found that violence against women and girls has not been taken as seriously as other forms of violence.

It found that there is widespread bullying in the Met, with a fifth of staff with protected characteristics – for example, race, sexuality or disability – being victimised. 

In recent years, the force has lurched from scandal to scandal including Miss Everard’s murder by serving officer Couzens and Carrick being unmasked as one of the UK’s most prolific sex offenders.

Baroness Casey called for a “complete overhaul” of the Met and a “new approach to restore public trust and confidence”.

If the force does not reform, it could face being broken up in future, Baroness Casey said.