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Metropolitan police approved their use at Notting Hill carnival and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020The only events for which Metropolitan police chiefs authorised the potential use of baton rounds in the past six years were black-led gatherings, do…
Pair have cases to answer in death of black man who died shortly after being restrained by up to nine officers, says watchdogTwo Metropolitan police constables will face a gross misconduct hearing after the Independent Office for Police Conduct’s reinv…
Pair accused of lying during investigation into claims of VIP paedophile ring made by fantasist Carl BeechThere are “reasonable grounds” to suspect two people perverted the course of justice by allegedly making false abuse claims against a string of hi…
Nurse who lived with Julian Bennett tells misconduct hearing that he was smoking cannabis before workA senior Metropolitan police commander who wrote the force’s drug strategy regularly smoked cannabis before going to work, a tribunal has heard.A nurse…
‘Precision policing’ approach builds on force’s strategy to identify the 100 most dangerous men in LondonThe Metropolitan police is expanding its use of “precision policing”, an approach that uses crime data to focus police activity, in an effort to re…
Coalition of 26 organisations say overhauls in policing plan launched last week are a missed opportunityA coalition of 26 racial justice organisations has criticised the Metropolitan police for refusing to accept the core finding of the Casey review th…
Louis De Zoysa, 26, murdered 54-year-old with a gun he smuggled into a custody unit in south LondonA man has been sentenced to a whole-life order, meaning he will spend the rest of his life in prison, for the murder of Sgt Matt Ratana, whom he shot wit…
The 28-year-old man was arrested on July 17 after arriving at London’s Heathrow Airport on suspicion of being a member of a ‘proscribed organization’ under British terror law.
Footage of incident, in which woman’s child becomes distressed, has circulated on social mediaThe police watchdog is reviewing an incident in which a woman was arrested and detained by Metropolitan police officers in Croydon after she was falsely accus…
Report says detention of Ernest Moret was wrong after he was held for almost 24 hours by counter-terrorist policeThe arrest in London of a radical French publisher under counter-terrorist powers has been referred to the police watchdog after the review…