Ch Supt Andy Carter

ISLINGTON’S borough commander has issued another vow to win the trust of the community after another officer was fired following a sexual offence.

For the second time in a fortnight, Chief Superintendent Andy Carter explained his horror at the details of a case involving an officer attached to the Camden and Islington ranks.

Christopher Brown, a trainee detective constable, was dismissed from the Met after a brief misconduct hearing on Tuesday.

An “accelerated” hearing – the speed relates to an attempt to get through a backlog of cases involving accusations against officers – concluded he had breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour following a conviction for sexual assault.

Mr Brown committed the offence back in December 2021 when he was off duty in a bar in London.

He touched a female colleague in a sexual way that was unwanted.

Mr Brown was charged 11 months after a report was made by the victim and he had been interviewed under caution. At Southwark Crown Court he later pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault and was sentenced to a 12-month community order and a 40-hour rehabilitation programme and 200 hours of unpaid work.

Mr Brown was also ordered to pay the victim an £80 surcharge. He is now barred from joining the Met again.

Ch Supt Carter said: “Brown’s behaviour was completely unacceptable and his actions undermine the honest majority of our officers who are dedicated to protecting the public.

“It is quite right that he has been swiftly dismissed from the Met following the conclusion of court proceedings.”

He added: “We are determined to win back the trust of the communities we serve. We know this isn’t something that will be resolved overnight, but I hope the outcome of this investigation demonstrates that we are heading in the right direction.”

Last week Ch Supt Carter praised the bravery of a woman who came forward and said she had been raped by a serving police officer in the Central North unit which covers the twin-borough patch of Camden and Islington in an off-duty attack.

Ireland Murdock later looked her details up on a restricted police computer system which led to him to being dismissed last July.

A jury at the Inner London Crown Court found him guilty of rape last week and he will be sentenced next month.

In a letter to residents reading the Tribune last month, Ch Supt Carter said he was “ashamed and angry” that communities had been let down as the Casey Review into the Met concluded that there was institutional racism, homophobia and misogyny in London’s police force.

But he added that significant reforms were already under way and that police were “determined to root out those who corrupt our integrity”.

Baroness Louise Casey was asked by the government to investigate the Met following the murder of Sarah Everard, who was abducted, raped and killed by Wayne Couzens, a police officer.

The then Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick suggested that there was an occasional “bad ’un” in a force of good officers.

As calls for a new face to come in and reform the Met grew louder, she was backed to stay in post by both Boris Johnson, who was prime minister, and Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of Labour Party and former director of public prosecutions.

As more scandals engulfed the Met, however, London mayor Sadiq Khan dropped his support and demanded she leave.

The force has also been scarred by the discovery that senior firearms officer David Carrick had committed so many offences he can be classed as one of the UK’s most prolific sexual predators and has since been jailed for life.

More reports relating to Carrick have been received by the Met since his sentencing.

Sir Mark Rowley, the current Met Commissioner, has not shared all of Baroness Casey’s terminology but has said the Met will reform.

He hit out at legal rules which he said were preventing the organisation from sacking “toxic officers” who had broken the law and that the vetting process was inadequate.

It had been confirmed that 150 officers were under investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct or racism.