in court, it emerged wayne couzens had used his police id and his handcuffs in the attack on sarah everard. daniel sandford wayne couzens, the police officer turned killer who has so damaged public trust, today beginning the life sentence in prison from which he will never be released. his abduction, rape and murder of sarah everard, using his police warrant card and handcuffs, risks undermining confidence in officers right across the uk. i think it s very important that people should have confidence in policing and what the police do. and i do, let me stress that. but what i want to do is to use this moment to make sure that we deal with what i think is a huge and justified feeling, by millions of people up and down the country, and i m afraid overwhelmingly women, that their complaints and their anxieties are not taken seriously enough by the police. the wider problem is illustrated by a whatsapp group in which wayne couzens swapped misogynistic messages with officers from the metrop
that was dr eric feigl ding speaking to me earlier. the metropolitan police here in london are trying to reassure women after serving officer was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for the rape, kidnap and murder of a woman walking home alone in london in march of this year. in court, it emerged wayne couzens had used his police id and his handcuffs in the attack on sarah everard. daniel sandford wayne couzens, the police officer turned killer who has so damaged public trust, today beginning the life sentence in prison from which he will never be released. his abduction, rape and murder of sarah everard, using his police warrant card and handcuffs, risks undermining confidence in officers right across the uk.
so it is still orders of magnitude not as powerful as a vaccine. the metropolitan police in london is trying to reassure women after serving police officer pleaded guilty this week to the rape, kidnap and murder of a woman walking home alone in in march this year. the officer, wayne couzens, has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. in court it emerged he had used his police id and his handcuffs in the attack on sarah everard. daniel sandford has this report. wayne couzens, the police officer turned killer who has so damaged public trust, today beginning the life sentence in prison from which he will never be released. his abduction, rape and murder of sarah everard, using his police warrant card and handcuffs, risks undermining confidence in officers right across the uk. i think it s very important that people should have confidence in policing and what the police do. and i do, let me stress that. but what i want to do is to use
that was dr eric feigl ding speaking to me earlier. the metropolitan police here in london are trying to reassure women after serving officer was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for the rape, kidnap and murder of a woman walking home alone in london in march of this year. in court, it emerged wayne couzens had used his police id and his handcuffs in the attack on sarah everard. daniel sandford has this report. wayne couzens, the police officer turned killer who has so damaged public trust, today beginning the life sentence in prison from which he will never be released. his abduction, rape and murder of sarah everard, using his police warrant card and handcuffs, risks undermining confidence in officers right across the uk. i think it s very important that people should have confidence in policing and what the police do. and i do, let me stress that. but what i want to do is to use
i ve lost a bit of trust now. i think when people are in charge you expect they are doing the job properly and trying to keep you safe, i don t think you would ever challenge that. i would have to step it up and say, can you provide more thanjust your police id? the force says it will publish a strategy for tackling violence against women and girls, 650 new officers will be deployed in areas where people feel unsafe, indecent exposure allegations will be treated more seriously. the thousands and thousands of police officers who are out there apprehending criminals and seeking to keep us all safe everyday need to be able to go about their business but i do recognise the implications of this particular incident and the blow it has struck towards trust. at the heart of this debate about improvements to policing, a woman who simply was trying to walk home. the force has faced numerous challenges in the met s 200 year history. restoring confidence in its officers among the biggest yet.