More than 2,000 complaints and misconduct allegations have been made about the Metropolitan Police’s disgraced firearms squad in the past six years – but only five officers have been sacked.
MO19 was one of two units given a damning assessment in last year’s Casey review, which was commissioned after Sarah Everard’s rape and murder by serving Met officer Wayne Couzens in 2021.
Now, new data obtained by openDemocracy lays bare the scale of the problems in the firearms unit, a department where Casey said “normal rules do not seem to apply”.
