Metropolitan Police Failing Missing Children Says Watchdog

The police inspectorate has issued two urgent alerts to the scandal-hit police force over failings in investigating missing children.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley appearing before the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, to answer questions about the David Carrick case, at City Hall in east London, on Jan. 25, 2023. Yui Mok/PA Media

The Metropolitan Police has been rapped by an independent watchdog over its handling of missing child cases, telling the force it is putting vulnerable minors at risk.

In a rare and “urgent” intervention, the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary issued two “accelerated causes of concern” to Met chiefs over “significant failures” in the force’s handling of missing children cases.