Overview

• An undercover BBC Panorama reporter spent months inside the Met’s Charing Cross station and recorded officers making racist, misogynistic and Islamophobic comments.
• London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he was disgusted by what was captured and continued his support for the Metropolitan Police and its commissioner.
• Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley condemned the conduct as appalling and said the custody unit at Charing Cross had been disbanded, with ten staff suspended, according to reporting.
• Footage cited in coverage includes an officer calling migrants “scum” and saying a detainee with an expired visa should get “a bullet in the head.”
• The revelations have prompted widespread shock and renewed questions about police culture and public trust in London policing.