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Here is a bit more detail on the response to the murder of Sarah Everard, who was kidnapped in a fake arrest by a serving Metropolitan Police officer.

Scotland Yard has issued some advice to people on how to deal with plain-clothes officers.

The force says people detained by a lone plain-clothes officer should ask "searching questions" such as why they are being stopped, where the officer's colleagues are and where the officer has come from.

The force says that, to verify the answers, people should ask to speak to an operator on a police radio to determine if the officer is genuine and acting legitimately.

In the event someone believes they are in "real and imminent danger" the Met advises they "must seek assistance - shouting out to a passer-by, running into a house, knocking on a door, waving a bus down or if you are in the position to do so, calling 999".

The Met explains officers are expected to intervene when required, even when off duty, and that they routinely carry warrant cards and sometimes equipment when travelling.

Speaking to the London Assembly, Met Deputy Commissioner Sir Stephen House, says plain-clothes officers will not be deployed on their own and will be in pairs.

But he warns there will be occasions when that is not possible given that off-duty officers not in uniform "put themselves on duty" when they come across an incident.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick is facing calls to quit over the handling of Sarah Everard’s murder by serving officer Wayne Couzens.

Home Secretary Priti Patel says the case raises "serious questions", but Policing Minister Kit Malthouse backed her earlier.

Speaking outside the Old Bailey after Couzens was sentenced, Dame Cressida said "a precious bond of trust has been damaged" and she would ensure "any lessons" were learned.

As part of renewed efforts to ease fears in the capital, the Met will step-up "reassurance patrols" and treat indecent exposure allegations more seriously.

An extra 650 new officers will patrol busy public areas in London.

Met Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave has also admitted a vetting check on Couzens was not done correctly when he joined the Met.

“Our lives will never be the same: we should be a family of five, but now we are four.

"Her death leaves a yawning chasm in our lives that cannot be filled.

"I yearn for her.”

The family of Sarah Everard confronted her murderer in court and laid bare their loss and anguish.

The victim impact statements, delivered by her mother, Susan, her father, Jeremy, and her sister, Katie, starkly revealed the family's pain at losing a loved one in such traumatic and violent circumstances.

“I should never have to write a eulogy for or bury my little sister. There is no punishment that you could receive that will ever compare to the pain you have caused us,” said Katie, addressing Wayne Couzens in court.

“You have taken from me the most precious person. And I can never get her back.”

Read their victim impact statements in full here.

Earlier policing minister Kit Malthouse told BBC Breakfast that people should ask a police officer to identify themselves if they had doubts when being arrested.

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Labour's Jess Phillips says the onus can't be on women to change their behaviour, after the murder of Sarah Everard by an off-duty police officer.

She says she would have got into Wayne Couzens' car after he showed a warrant card as he kidnapped Ms Everard - "almost anybody would".

She says more action is needed to restore trust in the police.

The Met Police is advising anyone stopped by a lone plain clothes officer to check their credentials, and to ask “where are your colleagues”.

But Phillips, shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, describes this as “tone deaf”.

"I could scream about the amount of things women are told to do," she tells the BBC, adding that Ms Everard was "keeping herself completely safe, doing exactly what any woman would do".

"The onus is on the Metropolitan Police to do better," she adds.

Thank you for joining our live updates on policing following the Sarah Everard case.

Here's some of the background to the calls for the police to rebuild trust:

• Wayne Couzens raped and murdered Sarah Everard while working for the Metropolitan Police, after kidnapping her in a fake arrest.
• The London force now faces questions over whether it missed chances to stop him, and has issued safety advice to women.
• Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick faces calls to resign over the force's handling of the case, as Home Secretary Priti Patel says it raises "serious questions".
• Speaking outside the Old Bailey after Couzens was sentenced, Dame Cressida said "a precious bond of trust has been damaged" and she would ensure "any lessons" were learned.