David Carrick

Police officer committed more than 71 serious sexual offences over two decades.

He is not arrested and no further action is taken. July 2021: He is arrested for rape. He is said to have grabbed her by the neck. 2002: He is accused of assaulting and harassing a former partner. 2019: Hertfordshire police receive a third-party report of assault and criminal damage involving an argument between Carrick and a woman during a domestic incident. January 1975: Carrick is born in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

PC David Carrick faced no criminal sanctions and was never found to have committed misconduct over the incidents between 2000 and 2021, despite reports ...

• July 2020: Carrick meets a woman on an online dating site who he goes on to rape. • Same year: He is spoken to by Thames Valley Police after he is thrown out of a nightclub in Reading for being drunk. • March same year: Carrick meets a woman on a night out and goes on to rape her multiple times and sexually abuse her. • 2000: He is a suspect in two offences reported to the Met involving allegations of malicious communications and burglary against a former partner. He never returns to full duties. • 2002: After joining the Met in August 2001 and still within his two-year probationary period Carrick is accused of harassment and assault against a former partner. She also describes being whipped with a belt and suffocated during sex. • 2019: Hertfordshire Police receive a report of assault and criminal damage involving an argument between Carrick and a woman during a domestic incident in which he is said to have grabbed her by the neck. He is not arrested and the matter is not referred to the Met. • 2016: He is a suspect in a Hampshire Police investigation following an allegation of harassment but is not arrested and the investigation is later closed. Hertfordshire Police informed his Met supervisors. He is not arrested and no further action is taken - the matter is not referred to the Directorate of Professional Standards.

It was only 18 months ago in July 2021 - after the murder of Sarah Everard by another London police officer - that Carrick had faced an earlier claim of ...

It led Rowley to admit that hundreds of racist, misogynist and corrupt officers have been allowed to continue to serve in the Met. Despite complaints from women of which the Met was aware, and having cleared him to join the force in 2001 – and entrusted him to carry a gun and guard sensitive sites in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command in 2009 – the force re-vetted and passed Carrick again in 2017. Ms Gray said: “The duration and nature of Carrick’s offending is unprecedented in policing. The Met has issued a list of the complaints received against Carrick from details gathered on police systems held by it and three other forces. The victim came forward shortly after another Met officer admitted to the murder of Ms Everard. He was arrested, but the Met did not view it as sufficiently serious to suspend him from duty. He would appear to be fun, loving, charming, charismatic, but he was very manipulative, very self-confident, almost to the point of being cocky, and he knew what he was doing.” He would tell them when they were allowed to sleep; when they were allowed to get up.” What stood out was the common details of what the women suffered, Ms Shah said. It didn’t matter to Carrick who the victim was – a new girlfriend, a long-term partner … Ms Shah said: “It enabled him to gain the trust of the victims at the beginning. He exploited it to put women at ease, perpetrate the abuse and then silence his victims.

During Carrick's 20 years of service, chances to investigate him were repeatedly missed. Instead, he was promoted, asks former chief constable Sue Fish.

And if police are abusing their position to exploit those they are charged to protect, how can the institution be trusted? And when things go wrong, they must be properly investigated – which may well mean externally, rather than from within the force. His job helped him to dominate and frighten his victims: prosecutors said that Carrick told women they would not be believed because he was a police officer. Not only did that vetting process fail, but the force was told about eight alleged attacks on or clashes with women by Carrick between 2000 and 2021 and took no action, after the women involved withdrew from investigations or refused to make formal complaints. One of the allegations was made during his probation period, but he passed. Carrick has served in the Met for 20 years, and is now an armed officer in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command – an elite, sought-after job that requires extensive vetting.

Sir Mark Rowley apologises for failings in the case of PC David Carrick, who admitted 49 offences.

The women who suffered and survived this violence have been unimaginably brave and courageous in coming forward. He should not have been a police officer," he said. Sir Mark said: "This man abused women in the most disgusting manner. We've let women and girls down, and indeed we've let Londoners down. Any inquiry into Carrick should "include the conduct of David Carrick and the potential opportunities the Met, other police forces and organisations may have had to identify his pattern of behaviour prior to October 2021, to stop him being a police officer and, ultimately, stop him offending," she said. "We have failed.

Carrick's guilty pleas leave the Metropolitan Police once more apologising for a criminal in its ranks.

In 2017, he sailed through his police re-vetting - but two years later, he was accused of grabbing a woman by the neck. "It's devastating to the trust and confidence that we are working so hard to earn from women and girls across London," she says. He was charged, named publicly and his 17 years of offending finally exposed. He did not attack her and she is not one of the women in this case. Carrick joined the Met, aged 26, in 2001, after a spell in the Army. She is shocked and astonished by the crimes of a man she regarded as simply cocky and strange. And for months, it appeared his victims would have to go through the ordeal of court, as Carrick denied the charges. Suddenly, in December 2022, he admitted most of the offences. One woman described Carrick whipping her with a belt, another how he regularly imprisoned her in a small cupboard under the stairs. He says Carrick developed relationships with women "to sustain his appetite for degradation and control". The first complainant did not realise she would empower so many women to strip away the law-and-order mask of a monster. Seeing him finally in the dock, Carrick's many victims - previously intimidated and silenced - gradually began to come forward.

A Metropolitan Police officer who degraded, raped and sexually assaulted women has today admitted his crimes. David Carrick custody photo.

- Carrick was charged with offences which related to 13 women. He was charged with nine additional offences on 10 January 2022, 12 offences on 17 March 2022, and three offences on 9 May 2022. The striking similarities in the victim accounts built a picture of a man who had manipulated them, assaulting them physically, sexually and also mentally. The issue of consent has been fundamental to this case. The case spans a 17-year-period with offences dating from 2003 to 2020. Others were women he met socially but still degraded and sexually abused.

Sir Mark Rowley apologises for failings in the case of PC David Carrick, who admitted 49 offences.

The women who suffered and survived this violence have been unimaginably brave and courageous in coming forward. He should not have been a police officer," he said. "This man abused women in the most disgusting manner. Any inquiry into Carrick should "include the conduct of David Carrick and the potential opportunities the Met, other police forces and organisations may have had to identify his pattern of behaviour prior to October 2021, to stop him being a police officer and, ultimately, stop him offending," she said. We've let women and girls down, and indeed we've let Londoners down. "We have failed.

Carrick, 48, carried out more than 71 offences over 17 years, despite force being told repeatedly of allegations.

She came forward on 1 October 2021, after she saw extensive publicity following a Met officer’s conviction for the rape and murder of Sarah Everard. The investigation into Carrick started when a woman alleged he had raped her after a date on Tinder. He served in the army before joining Britain’s largest police force. The Met said it should have spotted the threat Carrick posed to women during his time in the force from 2001, when he first passed the force’s vetting procedure. One woman was attacked during a three-year relationship with the Met officer. Moor said Carrick’s abuse of his position cast a “big cloud” over policing. DCI Iain Moor, who led the investigation into Carrick by Hertfordshire constabulary, said: “He invested time in developing relationships with women to sustain his appetite for degradation and control. She claimed that he restrained her with his police-issue handcuffs and boasted that he was a powerful man who guarded the prime minister. The Met has admitted errors in failing to spot Carrick’s escalating danger during his 20 years of service. And as leaders, our mindset should have been more determined to root out such a misogynist. “I apologise to all of David Carrick’s victims. He should not have been a police officer.

PC David Carrick - who was known to his colleagues as "B*****d Dave" - entered guilty pleas when he appeared at London's Southwark Crown Court on Monday.

He should not have been a police officer." We've let women and girls down, and indeed we've let Londoners down," Sir Mark Rowley said. "We have failed. "This man abused women in the most disgusting manner. He serves with the Met Police's parliamentary and diplomatic command. Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray, the Met's lead for professionalism, said Carrick's offending was "unprecedented in policing" and apologised to his victims for failing to remove him from the force. Following his guilty pleas, the Met Police confirmed Carrick "had come to the attention of the Met and other forces on nine occasions prior to October 2021". The head of the Met Police said Carrick's crimes were "sickening". "The coercive nature of his offending undermined his victims in the most destructive way," he added. The court heard that over drinks in a pub in September 2020, Carrick told her he was a firearms officer nicknamed "B*****d Dave", showed her his warrant card and boasted of meeting famous people, including then-prime minister Boris Johnson, in the course of his work. Carrick denied a further count of rape relating to a 13th woman, whose allegation triggered the investigation, and the Crown Prosecution Service decided it was not in the public interest to proceed to trial on the charge. The court heard that Carrick met some of his victims through online dating sites, such as Tinder and Badoo, or during social occasions - and used his position as a police officer to gain their trust.

In today's newsletter: This week, Carrick has admitted to 85 offences against 12 women in 20 years as a Met police officer. How was able to get away with ...

Nimo [Benjie Goodhart’s piece](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/16/40-glorious-disastrous-years-of-breakfast-tv)about 40 years of breakfast TV is a hugely enjoyable cultural history of a genre viewed as “decadent and sinful” when it began. The Sun labels him “Monster of the Met”, while the Mirror reflects public fury with “9 chances to stop rapist cop”. The sale has made the competition one of the most valuable in world cricket, and in women’s sport globally. [this New York magazine story (£)](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/george-santos-the-luckiest-liar-in-politics.html)that follows the bizarre four-year trail of lies left by Republican congressman George Santos is in a league of its own. [two](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/08/met-appoints-whitehall-troubleshooter-louise-casey-to-wipe-out-misogyny) [reviews](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/22/sarah-everard-former-prosecutor-to-lead-inquiry-into-and-by-police-officer) prompted by the killing of Sarah Everard in the next few months. In reality, he was one of 500 desaparecidos – the children kidnapped from those who disappeared during Argentina’s military dictatorship and given to friends of the regime. He passed a further round of vetting in 2017, and even after he was arrested in July 2021 – after the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer – over a claim of rape, was not suspended from duty. After replacing her, Sir Mark Rowley [promised major reforms](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/17/hundreds-of-met-police-officers-not-sacked-for-serious-offences-finds-review) – and [he said yesterday](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-64293158) that the force is now reviewing 1,000 sexual and domestic abuse claims involving about 800 officers. Carrick passed vetting to join the force in 2001 despite allegations of burglary and malicious communications to a woman with whom a relationship had recently ended. [A charity set up by the UK’s richest person is under investigation](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/16/watchdog-investigates-charity-set-up-by-uk-billionaire-jim-ratcliffe-over-16m-ski-clubhouse)after helping fund a £16m luxury clubhouse for an exclusive French Alps club where his family have skied for years. The decision is likely to enrage supporters of the changes and nationalists. But as complex as the case was, the mountain of evidence against a serving constable – with some offences dating back 20 years – raises other questions: how was he able to get away with it and continue as an officer for so long?

Appalling, abhorrent, devastating and sickening are some of descriptions applied to the crimes of the serial rapist and Met officer David Carrick whose ...

The days of shame for the Met must be brought to an end. He certainly could have been drummed out soon after once police had received further allegations in 2002 of harassment and assault and a reported “domestic incident” in 2004, raising additional questions about his suitability to be in position of power over the public. Other reforms will be required in addition and reviving public confidence in the Met won’t be easy.

David Carrick admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women across two decades.

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