A FORMER Scotland Yard detective Peter Bleksley has called for an investigation into the activities of a former police officer who has been convicted of a long series of sex crimes.
PC David Carrick today admitted 49 offences, including 24 counts of rape, carried out over 18 years.
Mr Bleksley told GB News: “This is a very dark and dismal day for the tattered reputation of the Metropolitan Police.
“It really doesn’t get very much worse than this.
“David Carrick’s serial offending over so many years should have been stopped many years ago.”
Calling for a meaningful investigation into the case he continued: “We’re already beginning to hear noises about missed opportunities. Well, quite frankly, I do not want to see a report in some months time that will say ‘lessons have been learned’.
“If there were missed opportunities and people were culpable, detectives, police officers, whosoever, then that needs to be thoroughly investigated.
“There needs to be stern sanctions brought upon anybody who knew something and kept quiet or otherwise allowed or facilitated this or looked the other way.”
Mr Bleksley told Darren McCaffrey: “I do accept, of course, that many of the offences were committed in his home county of Hertfordshire.
“That’s why it was actually not a Met Police investigation today that led to these charges in court, however, we need to know an awful lot more about this monster and his offending and there needs to be people held to account.
“If that means that people lose their jobs or lose their liberty, then I shall not be losing any sleep over that.
“In fact, it’s what the public deserve and what we really should demand happens, because how on earth could this most serious of offending have gone on for so many years or not been detected earlier?”
Asked if it was indicative of a wider problem, he said: “We are way beyond the bad apples scenario. We are talking about a fundamentally rotten orchard, with so many officers currently under investigation for allegations of racism, and sexual offences.
“And of course, Carrick is not the first Metropolitan Police monster to be jailed in very recent times. There is clearly a problem.
“Carrick worked for the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command so therefore he was an armed police officer.
“I’ve long contended that many of the armed police officers that I met tended to exercise their biceps a bit more than their brains, and there tended to be a bit of a macho culture.
“It’s 2023. Is this still happening? Baroness Casey, will deliver her full report into the culture and standards of the Metropolitan Police in March – her interim report made bad reading.
“I strongly suspect that her full report may be once again catastrophic for the reputation of the Metropolitan Police.”
