Belfast riots: retrospective policing
Police in Belfast were at full-stretch recently as rioting broke out on the streets. Now they are intending to catch-up with the perpetrators after the event.
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Police have charged six of the seven people arrested during riots in Belfast on Friday evening but tensions remain high over an IRA commemoration.
A 43 year old man has been charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock at the height of rioting on the north London estate of Broadwater Farm in 1985.
Hundreds more police from across the UK are being deployed on the streets of Belfast in a bid to calm tensions and prevent more violence after a night of loyalist rioting in Northern Ireland.
Police in Belfast were at full-stretch recently as rioting broke out on the streets. Now they are intending to catch-up with the perpetrators after the event.
With violence escalating in Belfast, Alex Thomson looks at a city of flashpoints, where loyalists and republican areas run up against each, and asks who is behind the recent protests.
A conman who posed as a Metropolitan police inspector during last year’s Tottenham riots is jailed for five years.
Channel 4 News revisits four of the worst-hit parts of London to see how they have recovered since last year’s riots. See the before/after photos here. Roll your mouse over the images.
A year on from the riots, parts of Tottenham remain demolished. But as policy makers and police try to fathom the anarchic violence, residents are attempting to piece their lives back together.
The families of three men who were killed in last years Birmingham riots broke down in tears as footage was played to a court of the victims being flung into the air as they were struck by a car.
The long-awaited report into the 2011 riots says poor parenting, a sense of hopelessness among young people, unemployment and a materialistic culture were to blame for the disturbances.
The final police report into the London riots shows the failure by officers to issue a “code red” warning delayed the response to violence in Tottenham, writes Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel.
As the first person is charged for rioting last summer, a cross-party summit is held to tackle the potential causes. Channel 4 News speaks to a bereaved father who says the debate is too polarised.
Tottenham MP David Lammy says restrictions on parents smacking their children were partly responsible for last summer’s riots. MP Harriett Baldwin and columnist Laurie Penny debate the issue.
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that 3,003 people have been arrested and 1,931 charges or cautions made for crimes connected with August’s rioting in London.
After the funeral of Mark Duggan today, whose death sparked the riots a month ago, it is understood that police forces from Cornwall to Northumbria will finally leave the capital – ending four weeks of unprecedented extra support for the Metropolitan Police. Will the government pay up, or will the police foot the bill? FactCheck investigates.