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As former police chief John Yates defends helping to find a job for Neil Wallis’s daughter, emails seen by Channel 4 News suggest the referring of friends for jobs was commonplace at the Met.
As Scotland Yard’s new commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe pledges to make the country’s biggest police force the “best in the world,” his appointment still rankles with some officers across the country.
Bernard Hogan-Howe, a former Merseyside police chief renowned for his tough tactics against gangs, is named the new head of Scotland Yard.
Feral Underclass is a humdinger of a phrase from Ken Clarke, but what does it mean? Previously, David Cameron lumped the rioters together as “pockets of our society that are not only broken, but frankly sick”. And after almost a month of naming and shaming the rioters in the national press, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has released the facts. So do they deserve the stigma? FactCheck investigates.
Riots which swept across England in August were the result of a “broken penal system” which failed to stop a “feral underclass” from reoffending, says Justice Secretary Ken Clarke.
“There’s currently no legal mechanism for forcing offenders to agree to meet their victims. If the rioters don’t feel like a face-to-face showdown then, as things stand, they won’t have to do it.”
The Government says it will not be seeking further powers to close down social media or telecoms networks following riots across England.
“The powder-keg potential of the situation is clear to voices from inside the prison system – rapidly rising numbers of new inmates, many of them vulnerable first-timers thrown in with serving prisoners, some members of street gangs whose violent rivalries will continue on the inside.”
The Metropolitan Police says that more than 1,000 people have now been charged following several days of rioting across the capital.
Police officers have been warned not to “spend too much time eating” as grateful members of the public offer cakes and meals to thank them for restoring order to the streets after recent riots.
Top police chiefs defend their response to England’s riots, telling the Home Affairs Select Committee they prevented attacks on the Olympic site by monitoring social media.
Thousands attend a peace rally in Birmingham following the deaths of three men who were trying to protect shops from looters.
Rank-and-file officers are said to be angry at David Cameron’s plan to seek advice from a US policing expert in the wake of the riots.
Senior police chief Sir Hugh Orde says Home Secretary Theresa May had no role in “more robust tactics”, no power to cancel police leave, and that the return of MPs from holiday was “an irrelevance”.
Gary Gibbon
Lord Justice Leveson launched his media inquiry with a “look but don’t touch” no questions press conference. I wonder if he was influenced by Sir John Chilcot’s experience, blogs Gary Gibbon.