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WOW2: October 2023 Women Trailblazers and Activists – 10-24 thru 10-31 [1]

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Date: 2023-10-28  

October 25, 2021

–Problems with the UK’s Metropolitan Police officers were highlighted by two cases. One Met officer was on trial, accused of rape, and his defense was that when he pulled her shorts down, and she pulled them back up, he thought she was “just playing hard to get and being flirty” when she said, “No. Stop.” The officer was later found not guilty. In another case, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found that the Metropolitan police failed the family of two black sisters, Bibaa Henry age 46, and Nicole Smallman age 27, reported missing on Saturday, June 6, 2020, the day after they were last seen at a birthday celebration for the older sister in a north London park. The women’s bodies were found by friends who had organised their own search party after police failed to initiate a search. The IOPC found the Met failed to follow their missing person’s policies, among other errors, but said it had looked “exhaustively” at whether bias was a factor and found that it was not.

A call handler referred to one of the missing women as a “suspect” and appeared dismissive when a friend of one of the sisters phoned asking for help, the watchdog found. The IOPC investigation also found that the inspector closed the police logs after receiving information about the sisters’ possible whereabouts from a family member, but that information was “inaccurately” recorded by a communications supervisor. This meant that missing persons inquiries for both women were not processed properly.

The report concluded that the service the family received from the Met was “unacceptable.”

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the IOPC concluded no officer should face a disciplinary hearing, but the Met should apologise to the family. The victims’ mother, Mina Smallman, responded that she believed race was a factor,

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