{"id":537259,"date":"2023-01-18T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=537259"},"modified":"2023-01-28T22:36:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T22:36:48","slug":"labour-would-suspend-any-police-officers-accused-of-rape-party-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/labour-would-suspend-any-police-officers-accused-of-rape-party-says","title":{"rendered":"Labour would suspend any police officers accused of rape, party says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, questioning the home secretary, Suella Braverman, about PC David Carrick.Police officers accused of rape or domestic abuse will be immediately suspended under a future Labour government, the party has announced, amid growing concern that other serial sexual abusers will be found in the UK&#8217;s forces.The announcement follows criticisms of the government&#8217;s response after the former police officer David Carrick was formally sacked on Tuesday after pleading guilty to 49 charges of sexual assault including dozens of rapes. He had been allowed to continue to work as a police officer despite multiple allegations.Labour&#8217;s proposed change in the rules would bring the police in line with other professions in the public sector such as teaching, where a serious allegation results in an immediate suspension pending an inquiry.The announcement comes as Suella Braverman, the home secretary, ordered UK police forces to check all officers and staff against national police databases to identify suspected misogynistic predators who have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers accused of rape or domestic abuse will be immediately suspended under a future Labour government, the party has announced, amid growing concern that other serial sexual abusers will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}