Met Police report: Homophobic officers 'obssed' wh gay sex

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• GAY MET POLICE LGBT+ LIAISON OFFICER ‘NOT AAID’ TO HOLD FORCE TO ACUNT OVER FAILGS
• GAY MET POLICE LGBT+ LIAISON OFFICER ‘NOT AAID’ TO HOLD FORCE TO ACUNT OVER FAILGS
• METROPOLAN POLICE REPORT: HOMOPHOBIC OFFICERS ‘OBSSED’ WH GAY SEX WOULD GRILL LBIAN OFFICERS

GAY MET POLICE LGBT+ LIAISON OFFICER ‘NOT AAID’ TO HOLD FORCE TO ACUNT OVER FAILGS

A newly appoted gay Metropolan Police LGBT+ liaison officer has said he isn’t aaid to hold the force to acunt, followg years of the force failg London’s queer muny. The 31-year-old officer, who is gay and has worked for the Met for the past five years, said the chance be a CLO exced him bee he n brg his personal life to the workplace.

This new bid to crease tst follows the Met’s botched vtigatn of serial killer Stephen Port, who murred four young gay men: Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whworth and Jack Taylor. Varnham said: “Beg gay myself and a police officer, I am very aware of the history. He shared his experience of beg the victim of a “homophobic onslght of abe” while arrtg a spect.

A bid to crease tst between the Met and the queer muny follows s failed vtigatn to serial killer Stephen Port and the four young, gay victims whose liv he stole: Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whworth and Jack Taylor. LGBTQ+ police officers routely face homophobia and over-sexualisatn wh the Metropolan Police, a damng report has found. It has found the Metropolan Police to be stutnally racist, sexist and homophobic.

GAY MET POLICE LGBT+ LIAISON OFFICER ‘NOT AAID’ TO HOLD FORCE TO ACUNT OVER FAILGS

LGBTQ+ officers servg the Metropolan Police reported beg asked if they were ‘up for threom’, told gay sex was “disgtg”, and had evinced plats agast senr officers bshed unr the rpet. Of those surveyed, 19 per cent of lbian, gay and bisexual rponnts said they had directly experienced homophobia wh the Met. “There is a huge issue Met-wi wh over-sexualisatn of gay and bi women, ” one person said.

Straight Metropolan Police officer said gay sex was ‘disgtg’. In another cint, a straight male police officer told an entire open plan office that gay sex is “disgtg”.

METROPOLAN POLICE REPORT: HOMOPHOBIC OFFICERS ‘OBSSED’ WH GAY SEX WOULD GRILL LBIAN OFFICERS

In another se, a gay officer reunted his experience of makg a plat agast a supervisg officer, which was bshed asi spe him havg evince. The gay officer heard that the supervisg officer had ma “lewd sexualised ments on a WhatsApp group”.

The gay officer lnched a formal plat but the misnduct panel found the se was “not proven” for sexual harassment, even though he had screenshots providg proof. Stland Yard has apologised to the LGBTQ+ muny for past failgs, what mpaigners have hailed as a historic first they hope other police forc around the UK will Met police missner, Sir Mark Rowley, ma the admissn a letter to Peter Tatchell, a proment Brish LGBTQ+ acknowledged that, while police had to enforce the law at a time when homosexualy was crimalised, the way was sometim enforced had “failed the muny” – a fact that persisted the “llective memory of LGBT+ Londoners of all ag” add: “The Met has had systems and procs place which have led to bias and discrimatn the way we have policed London’s muni, and the way we have treated our officers and staff, over many s. “Recent s of appallg behavur by some officers have revealed that there are still racists, misogynists, homophob and transphob the anisatn, and we have already doubled down on rootg out those who rpt and abe their posn.