The Metropolitan Police said on Friday, February 20, that it was “identifying and contacting officers, both former and active, who may have worked closely with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in protective roles”.
“They have been asked to carefully consider whether anything they have seen or heard during this period of service may be relevant to ongoing investigations and to share any information that may help us,” the same statement said.
A former senior Metropolitan Police protection officer, who declined to be named, told LBC radio on Tuesday that members of the Royal and Specialist Protection Team (RaSP) may have “deliberately ignored” situations during visits by Charles III’s brother to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.
The Met, as this police force is also known, also said on Friday that it is working together with several international counterparts to determine whether London airports were used to “facilitate human trafficking and sexual exploitation”. “Following the release of millions of court documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein by the United States Department of Justice, we became aware of the suggestion that London airports may have been used to facilitate human trafficking and sexual exploitation. We are evaluating this information and actively seeking further details from our law enforcement partners, including those in the United States,” this police force said in a statement.
In December, a BBC investigation found that 87 flights linked to the sex offender arrived or departed from UK airports between the early 1990s and 2018, the year before his death. British television also revealed that unidentified “women” were listed in flight records among passengers entering and leaving the United Kingdom and that 15 of the country’s flights took place after Epstein’s first conviction, in 2008, for soliciting sex from a minor, which, according to the BBC, should have raised questions from immigration officials.
The Metropolitan Police also revealed that they have not received new complaints of alleged sexual crimes since the United States Department of Justice released, less than a month ago, millions of pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
This Friday it was also announced that the searches at Royal Lodge, the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, will continue until Monday, said Thames Valley police. Search operations at the former prince’s current residence in Sandringham, which also began on the Thursday after his arrest, have now ended.
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