Mina Smallman has spoken out about the state of the Metropolitan Police three years after her two daughters were photographed by two police officers who found them dead when they should have protected them. As a women’s safety campaigner, Ms Smallman said the “rotten” culture in the Met Police was allowed to happen as police officers hired people similar to them, which fed into what has been reported as a “racist”, “misogynistic” and “homophobic” police force.
She told Good Morning Britain: “Where we are now didn’t happen overnight. It’s been a drip drip drip.”
She said police would hire friends which fed into this “rotten” culture and sense of impunity, which culminated in Baroness Louise Casey’s report.
“This has grown and grown,” she said.
However, she said she believes the “good police still outnumbers the bad.”
She insisted, though: “They are the bullies. They are the ones running the show – these bad apples.”
Two Metropolitan police officers were each sentenced to two years and nine months in prison in 2021 for “dehumanising” two black murder victims while taking and sharing pictures of the crime scene.
Two sisters, Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found fatally murdered in a London park in June 2020 when Deniz Jaffer, 47, and Jamie Lewis, 33, were assigned to monitor the area.
One of the two police officers made derogatory and sexist remarks about two murdered women while sharing photos from the scene of their discovery with a colleague photographing their bodies and sharing the images via WhatsApp.
The victims were referred to as “dead birds” in the photographs, which were shared in two WhatsApp groups, according to information obtained by the Old Bailey in London. One was a group “named the A team” made up of 41 police officers, while the other was a group called “Covid cunts” made up of Jaffer’s friends.
Ms Smallman’s statement comes as Louise Casey’s damning report found the Met Police is guilty of institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia.
The 363-page study contains horrific accounts of sexual assaults, which are typically concealed or minimised. According to the Met, 12 percent of women reported encountering sexism and 13 percent reported being harassed or attacked at work.
The report discovered a bullying culture, frontline police who felt let down by their bosses and were demoralised, as well as discrimination that was “baked into the system”.
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