Britain’s biggest police force has moved 90 officers from tackling serious crime and counter-terrorism to a unit tasked to root out corrupt colleagues.
Commissioner Mark Rowley made the announcement on Thursday as he revealed that a total of 161 Metropolitan (Met) Police officers have criminal convictions—76 for serious traffic offences including drink driving and careless driving.
Another 49 have convictions for crimes of dishonesty or violence—eight of whom committed the offences while they were police officers and remain serving with the force.
Other crimes include drug possession, criminal damage, and public order offences, and three serving officers have convictions for sexual offences, the commissioner said….