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Eight Met police officers shared racist, misogynist and homophobic Whatsapp messages, misconduct hearing hears
A misconduct hearing today heard how eight Met police officers shared racist, misogynist and homophobic Whatsapp messages – including jokes about sexual assault.
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Nicola Bulley: identification of body important before conclusions made, says former Met Police officer
We spoke to former Metropolitan Police officer Simon Harding.
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David Carrick: Former Met Police officer in court for sentencing hearing
The serial rapist and former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick was in court today.
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Met Police officer David Carrick pleads guilty to dozens of rapes and sexual offences
How was one of the country’s most prolific rapists allowed to serve more than two decades in the Met Police?
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Officers ‘labelled troublemakers’ for raising issues, says former Met police chief superintendent
We’re joined from Westminster by Parm Sandhu who served as an officer in the Met for 30 years and rose to the rank of chief superintendent. She retired from policing two years ago.
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Hundreds of officers should have been sacked for breaking the law and misconduct, says Met Police chief
The new Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley came into the job five weeks ago with a promise to restore faith in the UK’s largest police force. Today, after a damning report found systemic failings in how the Met handles misconduct allegations made by officers and their families – he admitted hundreds of his officers…
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Mother accuses Met Police of misogyny over her daughter’s death
Each time the Met Police fails in its duties, there are consequences – and sometimes they’re devastating. In July last year, a member of the public became concerned about the welfare of a woman, who they’d spotted alone in a park late at night. They alerted two Met officers, who were attending a separate incident,…
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Met police stop and search recording has ‘gone backwards’ watchdog says
The way the Metropolitan police record grounds for stop and search ‘has gone backwards’ – according to the Inspectorate of Constabulary. The police watchdog says the Met police is failing in several areas of policing, including how it responds to the public.
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Chris Kaba: Met Police suspend officer involved in shooting
This evening, as the family of Chris Kaba, a 24-year-old shot dead last week gathered for a vigil, the Met Police confirmed the firearms officer involved in his shooting has been suspended from duty.
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Met Police strip-searched 650 children in two years, figures show
The Metropolitan Police’s record on child protection has been denounced by the children’s commissioner for England after she revealed the force strip searched 650 children over a period of two years.
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Met Police investigated over two child strip searches
The police watchdog has said it is investigating two more cases where children were strip-searched by Metropolitan Police officers.
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Met Police officers allegedly joked about sexual assault in group chat with Wayne Couzens
Three Metropolitan Police officers alledgedly exchanged vile messages that joked about sexually assaulting domestic violence victims and described them as “women that don’t listen” a trial heard today.
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Sir Mark Rowley named Met Police commissioner
He faces the challenge of turning around a police force which has become mired in crisis – former counter terrorism chief Sir Mark Rowley is to become the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police – less than two weeks after the force was put into special measures.
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What’s needed to reform the Met Police?
Watchdogs have highlighted a series of failings by Britain’s biggest police force which they say have damaged public confidence in the force, revealing they have had “substantial and persistent concerns” about the Met Police for “a considerable time”.
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Met Police to be reinvestigated over Stephen Port murders
The police watchdog is to reinvestigate the Metropolitan Police over their handling of the murders of four young men in East London by serial killer Stephen Port.
