Updated 03/05/2021 20:22 BST Revealed: The Met Is Facing More Than 60 Probes By Police Watchdog Critics warn "the system is broken" as Independent Office for Police Conduct cases bring Scotland Yard's behaviour into focus. Questions have been raised over the accountability of the Metropolitan Police after it emerged the force was facing 63 active investigations from the independent watchdog – with some going back years. The figure was provided by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) after a request from HuffPost UK following a series of complaints about the UK’s largest police force in recent months. Our data request initially revealed one investigation still ongoing that was first opened in March 2015, and four cases still active for each of 2018/19 and 2019/20. One of these, involving an officer who hit a vulnerable teenager 34 times with a baton and sprayed her up close with CS gas, was finally concluded on Friday as we published this story.