Panorama’s latest programme, Undercover in the Police, is a shocking indictment of the state of the Metropolitan Police Service.

Having spent over 10 years between 2004 and 2015 working as a police constable in the Met myself, I watched it on Wednesday night because I was interested to see if anything had changed since I forced myself to fit into the ‘boys club’ that I found makes up the force.

Sexist jokes, porn at work, bullying and sexual harassment were part of life in the force for women like me back then.

And last night’s expose showed me nothing has changed.

I watched in disgust as several male police officers displayed behaviour that horribly demonstrated – in the words of former Chief Constable Sue Fish – a ‘highly toxic culture’ of ‘hypersexualised male behaviour, misogyny, r

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