Lone plain-clothed officers will video-call a uniformed supervisor while engaging with lone women to show proof of their identities, the Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday. The measure is designed to ensure women’s safety after Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was raped and murdered by a police officer, who fake-arrested her while she was walking alone. Wiltshire Police have already announced a similar scheme whereby officers will put their personal radio on speaker and ask their control room to confirm their identity. The Met said officers mostly patrol in uniform near their colleagues, but in rare occasions where a lone plain-clothed officer needs to engage with a lone female member of the public, apart from showing a warrant card, the officer will “proactively provide verification of their identity and purpose” by video-calling a uniformed supervisor in a police control room. The supervisor will “conduct the necessary checks and provide reassurance that …