PC David Carrick - who was known to his colleagues as Bastard Dave has been found guilty of committing 24 rapes while serving in the MET Police force. (Source: Twitter)

British media reported on Monday that a police officer serving and the London Metropolitan Police has confessed to several counts of rape and sexual offenses against 12 women across nearly two decades.

The 48-year-old sex offender in question, David Carrick, pleaded guilty on a total of 49 charges, including 24 counts of rape and multiple other offenses.

Carrick reportedly committed an offense before joining the Met police in August 2001.

He reportedly worked with parliamentary and diplomatic protection command since 2009 until a second compaint was filed against him in October 2021.

David Carrick, a Met police officer who served in the same unit as Wayne Couzens, has been charged with nine more offences including six rapes. Carrick now faces a total 53 charges against 13 women across nearly two decades. A significant charge list put out today.... pic.twitter.com/L7XEm7nzk8
— Fiona Hamilton (@Fhamiltontimes) November 24, 2022

Sources said that the police issued a formal apology to the victims for failing to give Carrick proper disciplinary measures or firing him over his acts of sexual misconduct.

"We should have spotted his pattern of abusive behavior and because we didn't, we missed opportunities to remove him from the organization," the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner for Professionalism, Barbara Gray, told reporters.

A similar event happened last month when the Met Police announced it suspended and arrested one of its officers, Rupert Edwards, for the count of two sexual offenses.