Baroness Casey’s review into the Metropolitan Police: Hannah Disselbeck considers some learning points for investigators
- Examines the methodology of Baroness Casey’s review into the Metropolitan Police and outlines the learning points for investigators and members of the legal profession.
- Breaks key takeaways down into structure, data and records, management, engagement and labelling findings.
Baroness Casey was commissioned to ‘undertake a review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police service and make recommendations’. After a year’s work, Baroness Casey has now published findings branding the Met ‘institutionally’ racist, misogynistic and homophobic.
The review (much like every inquiry into the Met before it, a cynic might say) has attracted shock and calls for fundamental change. But the findings and the standards (or otherwise) of policing in our capital are for others to comment on (see ‘The Met: just a few bad apples or rotten to the core?’, NLJ, 7 April 2023, p7). In this article, we look at what
