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Top Met officers cleared over phone-hacking misconduct
Four key police figures learn they will not face IPCC investigation over the phone-hack scandal, but a policing expert tells Channel 4 News the affair remains a “bad omen” for the UK’s top officers.
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FactCheck: London’s Met Police vs New York’s NYPD
Boris Johnson doesn’t want America’s Supercop swooping down on the Met Police with his hard-line “zero tolerance” policies. But how does the NYPD with it’s hard-line tactics, compare to the London’s Metropolitan poilce?
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Boris Johnson calls for action on gangs and illiteracy
London Mayor Boris Johnson tells Channel 4 News that last week’s riots are an opportunity to look at gangs, economic regeneration in deprived areas, and the education of young people.
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Police dog injured during riots
The Met Police is paying tribute to the dogs that stood by the side of officers during the London riots. The handler of one dog which was injured says it was hard to see his “best mate” hurt.
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Cameron vow as police riot row simmers
Prime Minister David Cameron will say he “will not be found wanting” in confronting why last week’s riots happened and finding out how to prevent them happening again.
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Peace rally in Birmingham as murder suspects appear in court
Thousands attend a peace rally in Birmingham following the deaths of three men who were trying to protect shops from looters.
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Police ‘anger’ at supercop plan
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.
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Looted barber inspires online generosity
An 89-year-old Tottenham barber whose shop was looted during the riots says he is overwhelmed by an online campaign that has raised more than £25,000 to help him back into business.
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Police made the decisions, not ministers, says Orde
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”.
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Police watchdog ‘misled’ journalists over Duggan shooting
The police watchdog has admitted it may have wrongly led journalists to believe that police shooting victim Mark Duggan fired at officers before he was killed.
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FactCheck: Does Boris have the right to weigh into the police cuts row?
Boris Johnson got himself in hot water with fellow Conservatives when he bucked the party line on police cuts. But the Mayor of London has already angered opponents over his own record on funding the Met. FactCheck referees.
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FactCheck counts the cost of the riots
It is the police – not insurers – that will have to cover the lion’s share of these costs, FactCheck discovers.
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FactCheck: Have riots put police front line on the back foot?
David Cameron and Theresa May insist the cuts won’t affect the police’s ability to handle major incidents like this week’s riots. FactCheck investigates.
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Cameron: Police ‘fightback’ is working
The Prime Minister says flooding London with extra officers helped calm tensions, and water cannon will be available if trouble flares up again.
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Online campaign for riot victim Ashraf Haziq
The nation watched, horrified, as Ashraf Haziq had his backpack picked during Monday’s Hackney riots. But an internet campaign aims to compensate the Malaysian student for what he went through.