Scotland Yard is institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic and the public is being let down by a force that no longer has a functioning neighbourhood policing service, a damning report concludes.

In an excoriating review, which echoes the 1999 Macpherson report into the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence, Baroness Casey says Britain’s biggest police force has lost the trust and confidence of the people it is supposed to keep safe.

She warns that policing by consent in the capital is “broken” and suggests a “complete overhaul” of the force is needed or else it risks having to be broken up.

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