Met chief warns violence against women needs to be treated like terrorism
Britain’s top officer has warned that tackling violence against women and girls needs the same level of funding as terrorism policing as he faces questions over the recruitment of Sarah Everard’s killer to police.
Sir Mark Rowley’s comments came as the mayor of London branded the recruitment of Wayne Couzens and repeated failures to stop him as “one of the most shattering accounts of failure in British policing history”.
Sadiq Khan hit out at which allowed Couzens to be recruited to three different police forces after last week a uncovered a string of missed opportunities to catch the killer.
