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Madeleine McCann: UK police begin new investigation
Officers investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann say they have identified 38 new persons of interest – 12 of them British – after a two-year-long review.
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Police stop and search arrest numbers ‘too low’ says May
The home secretary launches a public consultation into police stop and search powers, after official figures show the number of searches leading to arrests is “far too low for comfort”.
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‘We did not target Stephen’s family’, says undercover boss
Bob Lambert, ex-deputy chief of a covert Met unit, says in an exclusive interview that “at no time” was his team involved with trying to smear the family of the murdered teenager, Stephen Lawrence.
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After Lawrence ‘smear’ claims, 13 questions for the Met
The mother of Stephen Lawrence is to meet the Metropolitan police commissioner to discuss issues arising out of the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary broadcast earlier this week.
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‘No attempt to smear Lawrence family’
Special Branch officer Roger Pearce refutes claims there were attempts to smear the family of the murdered black teenager, Stephen Lawrence. Paraic O’Brien reports, with analysis by Simon Israel.
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Questions over ‘bugged’ Lawrence meetings
Allegations made that officers secretly bugged meetings they held with Stephen’s friend, Duwayne Brooks, and his lawyers.
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Met police chief under fire from MPs over ‘plebgate’ inquiry
MPs hit out at the police investigation into the Plebgate row, with one saying Andrew Mitchell was a victim of media spin “at the highest level” of the Met, and another suggesting Channel 4 take over.
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Government traffic courts to tackle case congestion
The government is planning to set up a new nationwide system of special traffic courts to speed up the half a million motoring cases currently dealt with by magistrates courts.
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Police watchdog IPCC criticised over Sean Rigg errors
A review of an IPCC investigation into the death in custody of Sean Rigg is severely criticised for making a series of fundamental errors. But this is not the first time concerns have been raised.
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New claims of racism against Met police
A mother and son go to court after the Metropolitan police are granted an appeal against an earlier finding that the pair were racially harassed by an officer.
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FactCheck: The nasty surprise in Boris’s police plan
Is London really “actively recruiting 4,500 more police” at the height of austerity, as Boris Johnson claimed today? FactCheck investigates.
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Savile failings raise concerns over police database
As a report warns that police could still repeat the errors of the Jimmy Savile case, have the authorities failed to act on the lessons of the 2002 Soham murders?
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Construction workers blacklist under police investigation
The Metropolitan Police launches an inquiry into allegations that its own officers colluded in the blacklisting of thousand of construction workers.
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Met commissioner apologises after losing appeal
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner apologises for the first time after the Court of Appeal rejected a bid to overturn an award to an autistic epileptic teenager who was restrained by police in 2008.
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Boris bluster can’t hide reality of police cuts
Boris Johnson has promised to “keep police numbers high” in the capital. But FactCheck discovers that officer strength is really at a five-year low.