Former Detective Constable David Fall assaulted two of the women and told one “I could rape you if I wanted to”, a misconduct hearing found.
Before he resigned in October 2024, Fall was attached to the Met’s Specialist Crime South team which covers Bromley, Croydon, Sutton, Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
In 2017 he appeared on the BBC’s The Met: Policing London in an episode about rape investigations.
Fall, who was the investigating officer in the rape case, was seen telling a 35-year-old rape victim: “That’s what my job is, to make sure we lock up the bad people so that people like you, the good people, can sleep safe and sound in their own houses. That’s the job that we do, we look after people.”
But Fall soon became the subject of a criminal investigation himself when seven former partners made complaints of domestic abuse and harassment.
Hampshire Police launched Operation Foam in 2020, an investigation into Fall’s behaviour.
He was arrested in October 2021, then again in February and April 2022, but no charges were brought against him.
On Friday (February 7, 2025) the allegations made by the seven women were found proven by a Met Police misconduct hearing.
All the allegations came from women Fall had been in relationships with between 2014 and 2020, while he was a Met Police officer.
One woman said during their relationship Fall had poked her in the stomach whilst she was pregnant, ripped her hoodie and forcefully removed it, threw a phone at her head, jabbed her with a fork, and said words to the effect of “I could rape you if I wanted to”.
Another woman, who has since died, said Fall poured beer over her, threw a sandwich at her, slapped her, pulled her hair, threatened to rape her, and grabbed her by the arm causing a bruise when she threatened to leave him.
The other five women all said Fall had harassed them after his relationships with them ended.
This included “bombarding” them with messages, sometimes in the hundreds.
“The panel finds the Officer could not tolerate romantic rejection either easily or at all and that his conduct in respect of his relationship with the seven victims was controlling, obsessive and harassing and caused each of the victims distress and alarm,” a misconduct report states.
He also took intimate photographs of two of the women without their consent, the panel found.
Fall denied the allegations, claiming the seven women fabricated their evidence.
He accused Hampshire Constabulary of actively seeking out alleged victims as part of a “witch hunt”.
At the conclusion of the misconduct hearing, which lasted five days, Fall was found to have committed gross misconduct and would have been dismissed if he were still a serving officer.
A spokesperson for Hampshire Police said: “We conducted a criminal investigation into the matters laid out in the misconduct notice, and a man was arrested in connection with these.
“A file was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 2022, which made the decision that no further action would be taken.
“The details were then passed to the Metropolitan Police Service for their conduct investigation.”
A CPS spokesman said: “We reviewed this case carefully, and after considering all the material passed to us by the police, we concluded there was not enough evidence for us to charge the suspect.”
