Senior Met officer urges police to be ‘professionally curious’ about colleagues after officer jailed for rape

The Metropolitan Police’s Assistant Commissioner has called on officers to be “professionally curious” and to “take allegations seriously” about their colleagues after Adam Provan was jailed for 16 years for a series of rapes.

The ex-officer’s predatory behaviour went unchecked until 2016 when Lauren Taylor reported she had been twice raped by him when she was 16 - 11 years after a female police officer reported she was stalked and harassed by Provan, which resulted in words of warning.

In 2019 the officer reported to the police that he had also raped her six times between 2003 to 2005.