The police culture of misogyny that shielded a murderer
Within the vast neoclassical headquarters of the Metropolitan police in central London, the floor hosting the directorate of professional standards is the one place any visitor would try to behave.
Its 320 staff are tasked with investigating complaints of inappropriate behaviour, corruption and misconduct among officers. Yet even here, until recently at least, misogynists appear to have felt untouchable.
Ex-Met detective superintendent Shabnam Chaudhri recalls visiting the directorate five years ago to raise concerns over the behaviour of a male officer only to find staff from the unit trumping her allegations with their own accounts of the same perpetrator.
“There were two female officers
