Search results for ‘Metropolitan Police’
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Teenage victim of ‘racist attack’ at London BLM protest says police treated him as suspect
A teenage boy, who was moved to attend his very first protest after seeing scenes of George Floyd’s death in the United States, ended up getting assaulted in what he says was a racist attack from far right supporters.
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Met Police have to ‘work hard to explain the rationality’ behind stories that suggest discriminatory policing – Met Police’s former head of diversity
I’m joined now by Victor Olisa, the Metropolitan’s former head of diversity, and head of policing in Tottenham.
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Met Police Assistant Commissioner would have ‘probably’ joined BLM protesters if he was not an officer
When Neil Basu joined the Metropolitan Police in 1992, he admits that his friends and family thought he was insane.
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Met Police remove hundreds of names from gangs matrix
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.
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Met police chief “deeply sorry” for disastrous investigation into false claims of sexual abuse
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said she is “deeply sorry for the mistakes that were made” during the force’s investigations into false claims of sexual abuse and murder involving a series of leading establishment figures.
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Met police criticised over inquiry into false VIP paedophile ring claims
“We are deeply, deeply sorry,” said the Metropolitan Police today in response to a former judge’s highly critical review of how it investigated an alleged VIP paedophile ring.
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Far-right extremism is fastest growing terror threat in UK, police say
Far-right extremism is the fastest growing terrorist threat in the UK, according to the country’s most senior counter terrorism officer. Neil Basu, the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner, said seven of the 22 plots foiled since March last year were linked to far right ideologies. And he warned that public speakers, including politicians, need to be…
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Man sues police after he grew up not knowing his father was an undercover officer
Imagine your father abandoned you as a child. Then 24 years later you find out he was a police spy and not the activist you grew up believing him to be.
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The Met Police’s spat with the Electoral Commission explained
The Metropolitan Police launched a stinging attack on the Electoral Commission.
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Met Commissioner links rise in violent crime to police cuts
Britain’s most senior police officer has said there is a link between falling police numbers and a rise in violent crime.
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Met Police cleared over Sean Rigg custody death
Five police officers have been cleared of misconduct by a disciplinary panel investigating their involvement in the death of Sean Rigg, who suffered from schizophrenia.
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Speaker of Commons urges police to protect MPs after Soubry verbally abused
The Metropolitan Police has said it will deal “robustly” with protesters who barrack MPs outside parliament.
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Met Police gangs ‘matrix’ database under scrutiny
The increase in teenage knife crime has put Britain’s largest police force under increasing pressure to tackle gang-related violence. One of the systems the Metropolitan Police use is its gangs matrix database, which holds information on thousands of people.
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Former Met officer Dal Babu calls for more police resources
Dal Babu, a former chief superintendent in the Metropolitan Police, discusses what happened at Westminster.
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Vote Leave campaign referred to police for breaking electoral law
Report by the Electoral Commission says the official Brexit campaign exceeded its legal spending limit by almost £500,000.