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Exclusive: Louise Casey’s long-awaited review will say the force has allowed ‘abhorrent’ officers to stay in its ranks

Ricky Reel, from West London, was 20 years old when he went out with friends on October 14, 1997 - he was found at the bottom of the River Thames following a racial attack and no one has ever been arrested or charged in relation to his death

Drug diversion schemes allow police to deal quickly and proportionately with low-level offending without the need for criminal prosecution

Driver ethnicity was recorded following the publication of the Mayor’s Action Plan on Transparency, Accountability and Trust in Policing, but the Met had announced an end to the pilot

The policing plan saw 10,000 officers and staff on duty on the day of the Queen’s funeral alone, with 3,000 officers drafted in to help from outside London

Group’s London return comes as Met chief says climate action is not yet so disruptive that he must shut it down

Sir Mark Rowley gave the figure during his first evidence session as Commissioner with the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee on Wednesday.

Exclusive: The boy was 13 at the time. His mother, a serving Met Police officer, launched a complaint.

Police are unable to clear London roads blocked by Just Stop Oil campaigners because the protests are not passing the legal test of causing “serious disruption”, the Met Commissioner admitted on Wednesday.

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said officers have to wait until demonstrations meet a legal threshold of disruption before they can be shut down.

Ensuring every child has enough to eat at school is a moral imperative. It is also a benefit to wider society. A PwC study, seen exclusively by the Evening Standard and our sister paper, The Independent, finds that extending free school meals to all children in poverty in England would…