She told Mark Longhurst: “Obviously, if you’re going to have people like David Carrick, who are dishonest rapists, sexual predators, they are not going to tell the truth about what they’ve been up to. “What has happened in the last few years, vetting has become a tick box exercise where the candidate has to say whether or not something untoward has happened, so- the onus is on the candidate. “In my view, the solution is to take in the investigation of police complaints outside of the Met and take the vetting outside of the Met, and have an independent body that then looks at all of those issues together and not allow the police to mark their own homework. “The issue here, even though we’re talking about vetting, is that it is different right across the country and also the complaints departments are different right across the country. She told GB News: “Confidence and trust in policing has taken a huge nosedive. Parm Sandhu said police forces should not be allowed to “mark their own homework”, following the conviction of former police officer David Carrick over a string of sexual offences, including 24 counts of rape. VETTING of recruits and investigations into complaints against police need to be taken over by an independent body, a former Metropolitan Police superintendent has said.
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