Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection
British specialist policing unit in London
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| August 2024 | Phil Hunter, a former Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP) officer, faced a disciplinary hearing for allegedly grooming women who had reported crimes to him. According to a BBC News report, he was accused of 'a pattern of sexually predatory behaviour' for attempting to build sexual relationships with vulnerable women he encountered while on duty, without taking action on their original crime reports. |
| January 16 2023 | At Southwark Crown Court, David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 offences against 12 women, including 24 counts of rape committed between 2003 and 2020. |
| November 2022 | Nine more sex offence charges were added to Carrick's existing 44 charges, bringing total alleged offences to multiple counts across different categories. |
| April 2022 | Acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Stephen House testified to the Home Affairs Select Committee about systemic supervision issues within PaDP following investigations into on-duty rape charges against serving officers. |
| March 18 2022 | Wayne Couzens was charged with four counts of indecent exposure related to alleged incidents in January and February 2021, which were previously inadequately investigated by police. |
| March 17 2022 | Carrick was charged with twelve additional offences allegedly occurring between 2003 and 2015. |
| January 10 2022 | Carrick received further charges of rape and related offences against multiple women. |
| November 24 2021 | David Carrick was charged with additional dozen counts of rape and sixteen related offences against seven women, allegedly occurring between 2009 and 2018. |
| September 4 2021 | PC David Carrick allegedly attacked a woman on this night, leading to initial rape charge. |
| March 2021 | Wayne Couzens raped and murdered Sarah Everard, driving her to the outskirts of Dover and later burning and disposing of her remains in a pond in Great Chart. |
| January 2021 | PC Wayne Couzens, while serving with Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP), falsely arrested Sarah Everard under the pretext of COVID-19 regulation violation. |
| 2017 | PC Keith Palmer was murdered in a terrorist stabbing attack in New Palace Yard while serving as a member of PaDP. |
| April 2015 | Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP) was created through a merger of the Metropolitan Police Service's Diplomatic Protection Group (SO16) and the Palace of Westminster Division (SO17). |
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