Picture the scene: the press conference room at New Scotland Yard in March 2023 – just after the publication of a damning report into the Metropolitan Police by Baroness Casey of Blackstock. Casey’s review, announced following the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer, had concluded that ‘predatory behaviour’ was ‘allowed to flourish’ in the Met, with ‘too many places for people to hide’, leaving the integrity of the organisation ‘vulnerable to threat’.