" Scotland Yard is institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic ", and must change course immediately or risk being dismantled. This is what is reported in the final report on the most important police force in the United Kingdom , edited by Baroness Louise Casey , a member of the House of Lords.

The independent report was ordered in 2021 after the case of former agent Wayne Couzens , the protagonist of one of the most serious criminal scandals to have hit the Met Police: the kidnapping, rape and atrocious killing of 33-year-old Sarah Everard , by him stopped on his way home under the pretext of a false detention for phantom violations of the Covid restrictions then in force. Many other cases of agents who had violated the law had then emerged, such as that of the rapist police officer David Carrick , recently sentenced to 36 life sentences. After the two episodes, a drastic internal disciplinary action was launched to eliminate the "goods apples" with which a systematic diffusion emerged - among Met Police agents - of negligence, errors, abuses, cover-ups, including cases of rape filed .

The police chief, after the publication of the report: "It is a terrible situation that generates anger, frustration and embarrassment ," he said. While the mayor of London Sadiq Khan declared that today is "one of the darkest days in the 200-year history" of Scotland Yard. Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also intervened, saying that trust in the police force had been "strongly damaged". But today's report revealed that there is still much to be done to revive the fortunes of an institution once highly esteemed throughout the world.