{"id":307877,"date":"2026-01-08T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/met-police-vetting-failures-allowed-rapists-and-offenders-into-force-review-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:00:07","slug":"met-police-vetting-failures-allowed-rapists-and-offenders-into-force-review-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/met-police-vetting-failures-allowed-rapists-and-offenders-into-force-review-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Police vetting failures allowed rapists and offenders into force, review finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/E3QYyd_wr08\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Met Police vetting failures allowed rapists and offenders into force, review finds\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E3QYyd_wr08\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A review has found that 131 officers and staff in the Metropolitan Police committed crimes or misconduct after they were not properly vetted.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>They include two serial rapists. David Carrick is one of the UK&#8217;s worst sex offenders.<\/p>\n<p>And Cliff Mitchell was allowed to join the force in 2020 after a vetting panel overturned a decision to reject him because he&#8217;d previously been accused of raping a child.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review has found that 131 officers and staff in the Metropolitan Police committed crimes or misconduct after they were not properly vetted. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] They include two serial rapists. David Carrick is one of the UK&#8217;s worst sex offenders. And Cliff Mitchell was allowed to join the force in 2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":307878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[129783,131736,129251],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-307877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-found","tag-review","tag-that"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Met Police vetting failures allowed rapists and offenders into force, review finds | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Met Police vetting failures allowed rapists and offenders into force, review finds for free, here on News ISC. 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