Met officer charged with sexual offences

A serving Metropolitan Police officer will appear at court next week charged with multiple sexual assault charges.

PC Joseph Reece, attached to the Met's Roads and Transport Policing Command, was charged with six counts of sexual assault and one count of voyeurism on Tuesday, 1 April.

He will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 28 April. He remains suspended from duty.

Reece was arrested on 25 May 2023 on suspicion of sexual assault by touching.

These allegations relate to two female victims over the age of 18 and are alleged to have happened between 2018 and 2022 while he was off-duty.

Reece was subsequently arrested on suspicion of voyeurism on 30 October 2023.

This allegation relates to a single female victim over the age of 18 and was alleged to have happened between 2020 and 2022 while off-duty.

The Met's Directorate of Professional Standards has been informed.