Bring in outside force to nail all Stephen Lawrence’s killers, says his father Stephen Lawrence’s father says he doesn’t trust the Metropolitan Police to do their jobs Evening Standard · Apr 21, 2023
More than half of ethnic minority Britons do not trust Metropolitan Police The results were similar to those collected for all Britons in February The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023
Police backlash as federation chief accepts Met is ‘institutionally’ racist and sexist Steve Hartshorn pitted himself against Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley Evening Standard · Apr 20, 2023
Police Federation chair accepts Met is institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic Steve Hartshorn says making his personal views public is an act of ‘leadership’, after damning Casey report The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2023
Doreen Lawrence: black people in UK still don’t get justice Mother of teenager killed in racist attack in 1993 says police in London ‘able to be as brutal as they want’ The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2023
Stephen Lawrence's dad vows to face son's killers and tells them to finally confess Neville Lawrence, 81, told the Daily Mirror he will give victim impact statements at the parole hearings of Gary Dobson, 47, and David Norris, 46. Daily Mirror · Apr 17, 2023
Meet The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die cast: who's who in the Netflix movie Uhtred and his companions return in new Netflix TV spin-off The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die. WhatToWatch · Apr 17, 2023
Patsy Stevenson: "One voice can really make a difference" Misogyny has reached epidemic levels in the UK, and with the rise of Andrew Tate and the spread of incel ideology, UK cyber hate against women is at an all-time high. Marie Claire · Apr 12, 2023
Chief constables must have ‘final word’ on sackings, says top officer West Midlands Police chief constable Craig Guildford has echoed comments made by Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley. The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2023
The Guardian view on the Met police: change will be an uphill battle Editorial: Mark Rowley wants new powers to sack officers – but the more difficult task will be transforming the force’s internal culture The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2023
Suella Braverman accused of delaying attempts to clean up Met police Sadiq Khan has written to home secretary urging her to push ahead with powers to allow the dismissal of rogue officers The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2023
Met crackdown on rogue cops will NOT focus on officers accused of racism The Metropolitan police will not be looking at racism in its plans to root out rogue officers despite the Casey report labelling the force institutionally racist Daily Mirror · Apr 6, 2023
Met Police chief: ‘Nonsensical I cannot kick out badly behaved officers’ Sir Mark Rowley believes hundreds of corrupt officers serving in the force should not be in the job The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2023
Nearly 200 cops facing the boot from Met in drive to root out unfit officers Almost 200 serving Metropolitan Police staff previously accused of sex crimes or domestic abuse could face being booted out of the force in new plans revealed by the Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley Daily Mirror · Apr 6, 2023
Evening Standard · Apr 6, 2023 OPINION - The Standard View: The Metropolitan Police’s priority must be to win back trust – while fighting crime Diverting resources from counter-terrorism and organised crime units in order to clean up the Metropolitan Police would be nobody’s first choice. But Scotland Yard is in such a state, and public trust so damaged, that there is little alternative.
The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2023 Nus Ghani welcomes report criticising ex-chief whip but says alleged comments were ‘devastating’ – as it happened Latest updates: publication of report into alleged Islamophobia finds it not possible to determine what Mark Spencer said to Tory MP Ghani
The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2023 Met chief: we’ve been ‘too permissive’ about police with criminal records Mark Rowley says he was shocked by officers’ offences and law needs to make it easier to dismiss people from force
The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2023 ‘How on earth did they get through?’ Met Police vetting under fire over offender officers Rules around getting rid of unfit officers ‘crazy’, admits Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley
The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2023 Mark Rowley aims to reform the Met on the scale of Robert Mark in the 1970s The London police commissioner faces a battle to clean up a force where the same cultures tackled by his predecessor ‘are alive and well’
The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2023 Commissioner vows to clean up Met as force faces biggest crisis since 1970s Sir Mark Rowley vows to ‘lift the stone’ – but says rooting out every unfit police officer could take years
The Independent UK · Apr 5, 2023 Met officers moved from serious crime squads to investigate internal standards Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley set out a series of measures being taken to ‘remove the cancer from the body’ of the force.
Evening Standard · Apr 5, 2023 Four out of five investigations into officers need to be reassessed, says Met Chief Met Police chief urged Londoners to back his bid to root out hundreds of rogue officers who had riddled the force like ‘cancer’
Reuters · Apr 5, 2023 Australia may inadvertently fuel cyber crime, says data theft victim service An Australian government-backed service for victims of identity theft blasted a plan to toughen privacy laws amid an explosion of online data theft, saying it would spur compromised companies to pay ransom and invite more hacking.
The Independent UK · Apr 2, 2023 Home Secretary not considering breaking up Met after damning Casey review Suella Braverman said no one is shying away from the ‘big challenges’ that the Met faces.
Evening Standard · Mar 30, 2023 Sir Mark Rowley: New ‘psychological tools’ could weed out malicious police recruits The Met Commissioner said the police force was ‘tightening up’ its vetting processes for new and existing officers