Nusrit Mehtab is a British former police officer, at one point the most senior Asian woman officer in the Metropolitan Police. Nusrit Mehtab joined the Metropolitan Police in the late 1980s. Her work in trying to improve community relations in

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was the subject of a 1990s ITV documentary, ''Mehtab of the Met''. She worked in undercover operations and counter-terrorism, rising through the ranks to become Superintendent. She is of Pakistani descent. In January 2020, after 32 years, Mehtab left the police force. She complained of a "toxic workplace", and has subsequently brought a claim for

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against the Met. She claims to have faced race,

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and

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and

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there. Mehtab is the author of the book ''Off The Beat: My life as a brown, Muslim woman in the Met'', published in June 2024 ( Torva/Penguin Books, .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mehtab, Nusrit Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English people of Pakistani descent 20th-century Metropolitan Police officers 21st-century Metropolitan Police officers Women Metropolitan Police officers