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Met crackdown on gangs recruiting children to steal phones for money on Snapchat

Police deploys drones, e-bikes, and live facial recognition to catch phone thieves

The Independent UK

Stop releasing phone thieves who reoffend, Met police chief urges courts

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley also called on phone manufacturers to make it harder for criminals to reset and re-sell stolen phones

The Independent UK

London gangs recruit children on Snapchat to steal iPhones for £380

The Metropolitan police is deploying drones and ebikes to help catch adolescent phone thieves

The Guardian - UK

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Hundreds arrested in Met Police’s largest-ever blitz on Fagin gangs behind phone snatch scourge

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley calls on courts to stop releasing repeat offenders allowing them to go out and commit more crimes

Evening Standard

Roald Dahl’s Met officer grandson blasts own force over botched pickpocket asssault probe

Ned Donovan wrote to Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley saying he’d been failed after attack on Westminster Bridge

Evening Standard

Victory for Met Police as judges rule vetting can include unproved allegations

Police force will be able to consider even unproved allegations when vetting potential officers in the recruitment process

Evening Standard

‘British FBI’ to take over counter-terror and fraud probes under police reforms

The National Police Service will be created to crack down on serious and complex crimes.

Evening Standard

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Met Police Commissioner calls for widespread police reforms

Sir Mark Rowley called for a reduction in police forces across England in Wales as part of his suggested reforms

Evening Standard

'Don't talk down London', says Keir Starmer as he slams Nigel Farage's Reform UK at PMQs after homicide rate falls

The PM criticised Reform after its London mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham said the capital was ‘burning’

Evening Standard

Israelis demonised as a ‘vehicle for hatred of Jews’, says UK terror laws watchdog

Jonathan Hall calls for police forces to clamp down on racial hatred based on nationality

The Guardian - UK

How safe is London really? This is what the data says

The Standard examines crime rates in London over the past decade

Evening Standard

Why London’s lowest murder rate in more than a decade is drawing attention

Data for 2025 will be good news for the Met and the mayor Sadiq Khan as they bat away claims of a lawless city

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The fall in violent crime in London is welcome but it's not the whole story

Homicide rates are down but how about shoplifting and phone theft?

Evening Standard

Met boss hits out at Trump’s claims about London crime as homicide rates fall

New figures showed that there were 97 homicides in the capital in 2025 - the lowest number recorded since 2014

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

London murder rate falls to lowest in over a decade as Met Police chief hits out at ‘disinformation’

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said facts ‘speak for themselves’ with homicides dropping 36 per cent in just six years

Evening Standard

Met police hired black child rapist to boost diversity, report reveals - as full scale of police vetting scandal is exposed

Damning review reveals thousands of police officers and staff were not properly checked amid recruitment drive

The Independent UK

Two serial rapists among police officers not properly vetted

A report found 131 Metropolitan Police officers and staff who were not fully checked went on to commit crime or misconduct.

The Independent UK

Serial rapist David Carrick among Met Police officers not properly vetted before joining force

Carrick, who was given 37 life sentences for his crimes, was not properly vetted in 2017, with checks failing to reveal an allegation of domestic abuse against him

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Evening Standard

Who is Reform's Laila Cunningham, and what would London look like with her as mayor?

Reform UK has named the Westminster councillor as its London mayoral candidate – but who is she, and what does she stand for?

Evening Standard

Laila Cunningham unveiled as Reform's candidate for London Mayor as she tells Sadiq Khan: 'Your time is up'

Reform’s London mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham, a Westminster councillor who defected from the Tories, claimed the capital is not safe and called for Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley to be fired

Evening Standard

London’s shoplifting epidemic is revealed as thieves rob retailers of £16.7million a month

Frontline workers brace themselves for the annual rise in offending during the January sales

The Independent UK

Freemasons seek injunction to halt plans forcing Met officers to reveal their membership

An inquiry into 1987 axe murder of private detective Daniel Morgan recommended that Freemasonry membership should be declared

The Guardian - UK

Freemasons seek injunction against Met policy requiring officers to declare membership

Exclusive: Organisation accuses Sir Mark Rowley of religious discrimination and ‘whipping up conspiracy theories’

Evening Standard

Vow to arrest protesters over intifada chant decried as political repression

The Met Police and Greater Manchester Police have said demonstrators who use the slogan in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack will be detained.

Evening Standard

Met Police make arrests over 'intifada' chants at pro-Palestine march in central London

The force is taking more ‘assertive’ action against slogans and messages intimidating Jewish communities in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack

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