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Kit Malthouse interview; LOCATION UNKNOWN:INTKit Malthouse MP (Policing Minister) interview via the internet SOT (1 of 4)11:00:08 - How can you rebuild confidence in the Met?- It's challenging this morning to contemplate that is something we have to do- Hope the Met Police can do the work they need to do around safety of women and restore confidence in their officers11:00:51 - Do you think the force is misogynist?- No, although there are naturally individuals in it that may well be- Do they have the robust systems to identify those individuals who are crossing the line and need to be removed from service- How can officers report and have confidence in that system- What is the proactive investigation capability of the Met to look at these things on a daily basis- A lot of work is going into this and vetting11:01:43 - How much confidence have in a force where a man like Wayne Couzens was able to go and commit a crime like this?- There was obviously a chain of event around vetting which needs to be investigated- The system is being looked at11:02:15 - It did fail though didn't it?- I am extremely concerned this man go through the vetting not just in police also Civil Nuclear Constabulary- Questions need to be asked about the system- A recent improvement is looking at officers social media presence11:03:07 - Times reporting five other officers swapping offensive messages with him - How can that happen? How can Cressida Dick stay on as commissioner?- Those allegations are under investigation so can't comment- Hope police has systems in place to identify those people- We do see internal reporting of bad behaviour11:03:45 - Do you accept this wasn't a case of one bad apple?- I hope it's one bad apple- I have to make sure I'm holding the police to account to make sure that he is one bad apple- We draw from the public, we get a variety of individuals and we are working on a system that ensure they have the ri...