Cleveland Police declared the UK’s first ‘failing force’
Cleveland Police has been a troubled force for too long. Now at last something is being done to tackle its deep-rooted ‘institutional racism’ and ‘corrupt’ culture.
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One woman every week is coming forward to report their partner in the police is seriously abusing them or their children – more than 125 have come forward in the last two years, Channel 4 News can reveal. Every woman we spoke to said police failed to investigate their own.
A £60 pound fine, which may double for each further offence. That’s the penalty in England for not adhering to government advice on avoiding non-essential travel.
It was designed to help prevent violent crime. But now the Metropolitan Police has been forced to delete hundreds of names from its Gang Violence Matrix.
Cleveland’s Police and Crime Commissioner has apologised but says he won’t resign.
Cleveland Police has been a troubled force for too long. Now at last something is being done to tackle its deep-rooted ‘institutional racism’ and ‘corrupt’ culture.
The Metropolitan police commissioner has welcomed a significant fall in knife crime across London over the last year – saying it was down to a large increase in stop and search, and more officers on the streets.
Britain’s most senior police officer has said there is a link between falling police numbers and a rise in violent crime.
Police and Crime Commissioners have written to the Home Secretary warning that a no-deal Brexit could pose a substantial risk to public safety. Their letter warns that officers could face a “significant loss of operational capacity” if Britain crashes out of the EU next March without a deal. It also urged the Home Office to…
The London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for police to carry out more stop and searches of people they suspect of carrying a weapon – to help tackle the rise in gun and knife attacks. 300 more officers are being deployed in areas which have been worst affected. The Met Commissioner Cressida Dick insisted that…
Jeremy Corbyn is right that police numbers are down by 21,000 since 2010. But his claim that crime is up is based on shaky figures. More reliable data shows crime is actually falling.
A senior police officer has appealed for help to tackle knife crime – after what police called a “truly unusual” number of fatal stabbings over New Year. Four young men died in London on New Year’s Eve and the early hours of January 1st, while there were other knife attacks around the country. The Met’s…
West Midlands Assistant Police and Crime Commissioner, Dr Lynnette Kelly, and Lord Victor Adebowale, the chief executive of Turning Point discuss homelessness and drug abuse.
The Metropolitan Police have announced new guidelines designed to ‘screen out’ some crimes without investigation. But data obtained by FactCheck shows that the Met already screens out hundreds of thousands of cases each year.
The probe follows an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News into a Welsh call centre contracted by the Conservative Party
Is austerity behind the rise in reported crime? FactCheck investigates.