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It's not only our police services that face difficult days ahead

It’s easy to fall into the trap of dismissing the failings of the Metropolitan Police as a policing problem, says Claire Kober. 'But this neglects the growing crisis of trust in our public services and institutions.'

Baroness Louise Casey's devastating review of the Metropolitan Police puts to rest any notion of an organisation contending with just a few bad apples.

Almost 25 years on from the seminal Macpherson inquiry, Casey has uncovered failures in every department, fuelled by a rotten culture which refused to address racism, sexism and homophobia.

Claire Kober OBE

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