days next week. and at york minister the king s first maundy thursday and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel.. we will have the latest from augusta and the first round of the masters, golfs first major of the year. tiger woods is out on the course right now. good evening welcome to the bbc news at six. 90 metropolitan police officers have been diverted from investigating terrorism and serious crime to investigate their own colleagues, as the force tries to restore public confidence in the wake of damaging revelations and a report that called it institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynistic. the met revealed today that after looking into more than 1000 allegations of sexual offences and domestic abuse against officers and staff over a ten year period there were 196 people who needed to be risk assessed or re vetted and another 689 cases that needed to be looked at again in case there were missed lines of inquiry or new ones. the commissi
the highest daily number since 2006. 25 years after the landmark good friday agreement, we look at the tensions and obstacles still plaguing northern ireland. and at the masters in augusta, rory mcilroy tees off in the hope that this will finally be his year. and coming up on the bbc news channel: england play for a trophy at wembley for the first time since winning the euros. and just like last summer ella toone s on the scoresheet. their experiences and from the commissioner in charge. good evening. the depth of alarm about the state of the metropolitan police the biggest force in the uk has been highlighted by the measures now being taken by the commissioner, sir mark rowley. he s moved dozens of officers from their work tackling organised crime and terrorism to focus instead on identifying colleagues who are unfit to be in the force. hundreds of staff previously accused of sex crimes or domestic abuse are to be urgently reassessed, and more than 600 others are to ha
of what happened because of differing accounts. the allegation was made by nus ghani who said her background and faith were raised in a meeting in 2020 with mark spencer. he said it was false. here s our political correspondent leila nathoo. minister nusrat gani. .. 2018, the first time that a minister speaking at the commons despatch box was a muslim woman a proud moment for nus ghani. but when she was sacked from the department for transport in 2020, she said she was told that negativity towards her religion was one reason why she lost herjob. mark spencer, then the chief whip, in charge of party management, now the farming minister, was said to have made the comments. he strongly denied the claim. nus ghani had taken her concerns to the then prime minister, boris johnson. after she went public injanuary last year, he ordered an independent investigation. now the report by the prime minister s ethics adviser has finally been published.
leila nathoo has the story. minister nusrat ghani. .. 2018, the first time that a minister speaking at the commons despatch box was a muslim woman a proud moment for nus ghani. but when she was sacked from the department for transport in 2020, she said she was told that negativity towards her religion was one reason why she lost herjob. mark spencer, then the chief whip, in charge of party management, now the farming minister, was said to have made the comments. he strongly denied the claim. nus ghani had taken her concerns to the then prime minister, boris johnson. after she went public injanuary last year, he ordered an independent investigation. now the report by the prime minister s ethics adviser has finally been published. sir laurie magnus says he was unable to conclude with sufficient confidence what was or was not said. he identifies shortcomings in the way mark spencer responded to the concerns raised by ms ghani, but cleared him of breaking
can t go to the police? he is the police. her abuser, anthony smith, was jailed last august for raping and sexually assaulting three young girls. it s officers like smith and david carrick, another met police officer, who raped and sexually assaulted 12 women over nearly two decades, whose cases have exposed failings within the force. injanuary, after carrick s case, the met commissioner promised to root out rogue officers. dozens of serious crime and terrorism officers have now been moved from their roles to help investigate wrongdoing in the force. sir mark rowley expects this may lead to hundreds of officers having to leave the force over the next two or three years. one of the things that encourages me about the future is, we were oversubscribed with volunteers in the organisation who wanted to help.