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Undercover police inquiry challenges Met to disclose and deliver
The Metropolitan Police is challenging the inquiry’s very existence because it says it can’t find the staff, the resources or meet the deadlines.
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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.
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Volunteer Police Cadets: building bridges after the knife crime epidemic
Amid the recent wave of knife and gun crime on Britain’s streets, relations between police and local communities have rarely been under such scrutiny. And there are growing calls to strengthen neighbourhood policing and build trust. That is one of the roles being played by the Volunteer Police Cadets, an organisation that encourages teenagers from…
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Police investigate Max Mosley
The Metropolitan Police are investigating Max Mosley, the former president of world motorsport’s governing body, after allegations raised in the Daily Mail and featured on this programme last night. We reported on the existence of a racist political leaflet, which raised questions about whether he had misled the High Court in his 2008 privacy action…
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Police apologise after Grenfell victim’s bone found in washing machine
The police have apologised after a bone fragment belonging to a victim of the Grenfell fire was found in a washing machine, when police sent his clothes for cleaning. The family of Mohamed Saber Neda who jumped from the tower block, has told Channel 4 News how they believed they’d already laid him to rest, but have had to…
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Police apologise to student wrongly charged with rape
The Metropolitan Police has apologised to a student who was wrongly charged and put on trial for rape. The case against Liam Allan collapsed in December after key evidence emerged of his accuser pestering him for casual sex. But the Met said no police officer is to be disciplined over the failure to disclose the…
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Dramatic 160 per cent rise in ‘threat to life’ notices by police – to some as young as 14
Children as young as 14 are receiving rare notices from the police warning them that they are at risk of being murdered or serious harm – known as threat to life notices. Channel 4 News can also reveal that the number of such notices being issued has risen dramatically in many parts of the country.
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Police ‘screen out’ nearly a third of crimes, with no further investigation
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.
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Met police officers cleared of misconduct
Six Metropolitan police officers have been cleared of gross misconduct over the death of a 23 year old man. Olaseni Lewis died in 2010 after being restrained in a south London mental health hospital. An inquest jury had previously criticised a series of failures by police and medical staff, but the misconduct tribunal found that the restraint was “necessary,…
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Police disciplinary hearing over 2010 student death to be held behind closed doors
The disciplinary hearing for six Metropolitan Police officers who are facing gross misconduct charges over the 2010 death of Olaseni Lewis will be held behind closed doors. Only the verdict will be made public. An inquest jury found the 23-year-old had been subject to unnecessary, unreasonable and excessive force which contributed to the student’s death.
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Acid attacks: ‘the police can’t solve this by themselves’
Leroy Logan, a former superintendent in the Metropolitan police and ex-gang member Gwenton Sloley who now advises the government and the police on youth crime, talk about the recent rise in acid attack.
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Police hunt acid attack suspect
The Metropolitan Police says it is now treating an acid attack in east London as a hate crime. Twenty four year old John Tomlin is wanted for questioning in connection with the incident, but police have warned that he shouldn’t be approached. Two cousins were attacked nine days ago in their car in Beckon. Last…
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