David Carrick: What Could Have Been Done To Stop Him?

This infographic sets out the known developments in Met Officer and serial rapist David Carrick’s career, alongside proposals for change made by Centre for Women’s Justice since 2020, and the police response to them. Most of the proposals come from our 2020 super-complaint to the Metropolitan Police on the subject of police-perpetrated domestic violence. Carrick’s case sadly demonstrates how, had our recommendations been adopted earlier, Carrick’s escalating campaign of sexual offending may have been stopped sooner. Since the super-complaint, approximately 160 more women have come forward to report their experiences of domestic abuse by police officers. Carrick, like Wayne Couzens, is sadly not an isolated case – reform is urgently needed.