News - World: British activists and campaigners protesting domestic abuse and violence against women have dumped rotten apples outside Metropolitan Police headquarters in London.

London police were confronted by the sight of 1,071 plastic rotten apples outside their headquarters on Friday after New Scotland Yard said earlier this week that as many police forces had been under investigation following one of its officers’ admission of 24 counts of rape and a string of other sex offenses.

“We’ve been told time and time again that it’s just one bad apple here and there, but this is actually a fundamental problem right across policing,” said Ruth Davison, head of the domestic abuse charity Refuge, which organized the protest.

“It has to be called out now because women’s lives are at risk,” Davison added.

The Refuge CEO called for any officer facing formal allegations to be suspended while an investigation takes place.

“At the moment, as women and girls, how can we — if we experience a crime — feel confident to go the police knowing that the person we speak to maybe a perpetrator?” Davison said.

“How have these perpetrators of abuse been allowed to enter and remain in positions of power for so long?” she asked. “What happens next must change the culture of policing for good. A force which breeds violent misogyny is not a force which can even begin to protect women and girls.”

Source: Press TV