Met risks breakdown in confidence among women, warns Janet Hills, ex-chair of London’s Black Police Association

A senior black female police officer has said the Metropolitan police should stop treating sexism as banter as anger escalates at the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer.

Janet Hills, who retired this month as the chair of London’s Black Police Association, warned that the Met risked an irrevocable breakdown in confidence between the force and women if the issue was not taken more seriously.

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