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Met Police officers involved in strip-search of Child Q facing gross misconduct investigation

Four Metropolitan Police officers are being investigated for gross misconduct as part of a probe into a black pupil who was strip-searched at school.

Evening Standard

Child Q: Four Met Police officers investigated after strip-searching Black schoolgirl - OLD

The officers have each been served with gross misconduct notices in relation to the incident which happened in 2020.

The Independent UK

Driver, 15, arrested after three die as ‘stolen van’ going wrong way on motorway hits taxi in Bradford

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after three men died when a van went the wrong way on to a motorway and crashed head-on with a taxi.

Evening Standard

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Three killed after stolen van drives wrong way down M606 and smashes into taxi

The taxi driver and his passenger were two of those killed

Manchester Evening News

Two PCs accused of using police dog 'as a weapon' cleared for second time

PCs Paul Jackson and Paul Lockett were acquitted by a jury in 2019 and now they have been cleared of gross misconduct

Manchester Evening News

'Terminator' killer 'acted out own horror movie' as he stabbed neighbour to death

Can Arslan murdered father-of-three Matthew Boorman in his own front garden before attacking the victim's wife and stabbing another neighbour eight times.

Daily Record

Gracie Spinks killing: Derbyshire police officers to face misconduct action

Spinks was stabbed to death in June 2021 by former colleague she had previously reported to force

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Gracie Spinks: Five Derbyshire Police officers to face misconduct case after woman ‘murdered by stalker’

Keen horse rider, 23, had reported her suspected killer to police just four months before her death

The Independent UK

Oladeji Adeyemi Omishore: Tasered man who died after Chelsea Bridge fall is named

A man who died after he was Tasered by police and fell from Chelsea Bridge into the Thames has been named.

Evening Standard

Witness appeal after death of man who was pulled from Thames after being Tasered

The Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating the interaction between two Metropolitan Police officers and the 41-year-old.

The Independent UK

‘Bad apple’ police officers must be fired, mother of murdered sisters tells ‘racist’ Met Police

‘The new Metropolitan Police Commissioner must acknowledge the institutional racism and misogyny that still exists within the service,’ says mother of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman

The Independent UK

Man dies after being shot with Taser by police and rescued from Thames

IOPC watchdog launches independent inquiry into incident on Chelsea Bridge in west London

The Guardian - UK

Man dies a day after police fired a Taser and he ended up in River Thames

Police had been called to Chelsea Bridge Road in London after reports a man was armed with a screwdriver and shouting

Wales Online

Man pulled from River Thames after Taser fired dies in hospital

The independent police watchdog is investigating the incident and will analyse the Taser that was deployed

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The Independent UK

Man who fell into River Thames after being Tasered by police dies

Police watchdog says the man in his early 40s died in hospital

The Guardian - UK

Police were told Michaela Hall was being strangled. Why didn’t they break in?

A vulnerable woman was killed by her violent partner on the night officers knocked at her door. Now her family wants answers

The Independent UK

Man jailed for attacking woman abused others as police ‘failed to heed rape threats’

Police said the man would get a verbal warning for sending rape threats but he didn’t because he was later deemed ‘no longer a threat’

Bristol Post

Police taser use doubles in four years in Bristol area as more officers allowed to carry devices

There are concerns that expanded use could be a 'worrying erosion of safeguards'

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‘You have to let the anger go’: Mina Smallman on her daughters’ murder – and the police who shared photos of the bodies

It is nearly two years since Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were killed in a London park and pictures of their bodies were shared by the officers who were supposed to be guarding them. Their mother talks about taking on the Met, and how she carries on in the face…

Evening Standard

Scotland Yard rejects new partygate inquiry as Sue Gray report is finally out

A scathing report has revealed how No10 staff sought to hide booze-fuelled parties with one saying: “We seem to have got away with” it.

Daily Mirror

Police watchdog urged to investigate Met Police after Boris Johnson gets one Partygate fine

The Metropolitan Police issued 126 fixed penalty notices to No10 officials, in relation to lockdown-busting parties held across Westminster. The PM has been accused of lying to Parliament.

Manchester Evening News

Boy, 3, mauled to death by dog went into cardiac arrest after suffering head and neck injuries, coroner told

Police destroyed one dog and seized ten others as part of a 'significant' investigation into the 'harrowing' death of Daniel Twigg, a pre-inquest hearing was told

Wales Online

Police used Tasers more than 30,000 times over the last year

Special constables will be allowed to carry the devices under new plans

Evening Standard

Met PC fired for failing to investigate abuse case before the victim was murdered

A Metropolitan Police officer has been fired for her "shocking" failure to investigate a woman's domestic abuse allegations against her estranged husband before he murdered her.

Daily Mirror

Volunteer Special Constables will be allowed to use Tasers for the first time

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has previously noted black people are more likely to be Tasered for prolonged periods of time than white people.

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