MADRID, January 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The leader of the UK Labor Party, Keir Starmer, advocated reforming London’s Metropolitan Police “from start to finish” in the wake of the scandal with David Carrick, an agent who this week confessed to dozens of sexual assaults, and even advocated changing the name of the department.

For the British opposition leader, the events Carrick acknowledged were “deeply shocking”, although he said there had also been other scandals within Scotland Yard, such as the murder of Sarah Everard at the hands of Wayne Couzens, an officer on duty. .

“A bottom-up review is needed, a cultural change, because it’s not just the perpetrators, but those who allow this to happen, (those who) don’t take action when they should,” Starmer said during an interview for The News Agency Podcast, collected by ‘The Guardian’ .

At this point, Starmer has alluded to the sweeping reforms that took place around the Royal Uslter Police, Northern Ireland’s police force which, following the Good Friday Agreement, was renamed the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

“It’s very important that it’s called the Northern Ireland Police Service because it changes the way a force is seen, it’s a service to the public, not a police force,” Starmer defended himself, hailing the nomenclature change as a step. was “critical” in efforts to achieve peace in Northern Ireland at the end of the 20th century.

Subsequently, the interlocutor asked if, given the controversy surrounding the London Metropolitan Police, he would advise his daughter to seek the help of an agent if she got lost on the street late at night.

Starmer, for his part, has answered an emphatic “yes” to also emphasize the importance of conveying the notion of trust regarding state police officers. “I understand the concerns of many people about it. But yes, I will do it,” he concluded.