EXCLUSIVE: The woman, who quit her role partly due to a culture of misogyny, has detailed a series of damning allegations to Express.co.uk.

A former female Met Police officer claims a sergeant “pretended to unzip his flies” and “thrust towards” her in a public work environment when she was a new recruit. The ex-PC is speaking out after the monster PC David Carrick, one of Britain’s most prolific rapists, was unmasked as a serving elite Met unit officer last week. She told Express.co.uk: “I was the only woman. They made me feel really uncomfortable.”

Emma (not her real name) told Express.co.uk about four shocking factors that contributed to her resignation:

• She was sexually propositioned as a joke in front of another male colleague.
  
  
• Another “creepy” police constable bombarded her with social media messages for “weeks and weeks” before she found out he had fathered a child with a separate female officer.
  
  
• She felt she was unable to report the harassment at the time for fear of being “shunned” or dubbed a “grass”.
  
  
• Male officers did not take sexual assault allegations from a female victim at a crime scene seriously and appeared frustrated when she tried to investigate them.

The ex-PC, who was part of the force’s flagship graduate scheme, “Police Now”, spoke of a “completely male-dominated environment” and being “really keen to fit in” during her first days as a 22-year-old probationary police constable.

In an office room with another male colleague in her first weeks in...

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