Almost 200 Met Police officers have been accused of sexual misconduct in just the last two years, new figures have shown.
A total of 193 officers have received allegations that they were involved in sexual assault, harassment and other sexual misconduct offences since 2019.
The majority of those accused have been male members of the force, amounting to 87 per cent of the accusations in 2019 and 89 per cent of the allegations in 2020, reports MyLondon.
771 Met officers have been accused of sexual misconduct crimes from colleagues since 2010. The majority of subsequent investigations saw those allegations not being upheld.
Former Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard while she walked home from a friend's house in Clapham in March, was reported to bosses for allegedly slapping a female colleague's bottom at Bromley police station in 2018 - just weeks after he joined the force.
Couzens, who was nicknamed 'The Rapist' by colleagues, allegedly stopped a female motorist and said her tax and insurance were out of date before making a note of her address so he could later pull up outside her house and leer at her
He had also been accused of indecent exposure three times before he abducted the marketing executive in Clapham, south London, on March 3.
Former Met Police officer Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard in March, was dubbed 'The Rapist' by colleagues in the force and was at the centre of a string of misconduct accusations
A total of 193 officers have received allegations that they were involved in sexual assault, harassment and other sexual misconduct offences since 2019
Four people either faced suspensions or restrictions in 2019 and 2020, with two appearing before courts accused of sexual offences since 2010.
The figures do not take into account Wayne Couzens, who was at the centre of a host of accusations of sexual misconduct prior to his killing of Ms Sarah Everard in March this year.
Couzens, who will be sentenced in September, was only fired from the Met after a Scotland Yard misconduct hearing on July 16 found his actions had breached
The IOPC has since launched an investigation into alleged failures by Kent Police to investigate the indecent exposure allegation against Couzens dating back to 2015.
The probe is also questioning alleged failures by the Met to investigate two allegations of indecent exposure
