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The Met said that it had made 1,000 arrests using live facial recognition, of which 773 had led to charge or caution

The Metropolitan Police is also planning to expand its public order crime team amid a rise in protest-related offences in the past two years.

The crime statistics are piling up, and all of them are scary. Knife crime in London, according to this paper’s correspondent, Ross Lydall, is up nearly ten per cent since last year: London now accounts for roughly one in three knife attacks in England and Wales.

Move would break Scotland Yard’s pledge to have one counter accessible 24/7 in all 32 London boroughs

Mark Rowley says historically ‘policing has got a lot wrong’ in black communities but ‘we get a lot more right today’

Sir Mark Rowley discussed the racial disparity among suspects and victims of crime in London.

Sir Mark Rowley addressed the racial disparities between suspects and victims of crime in London

Street festival gets bailout from City Hall and two councils but there’s dismay that Government has declined to help

COMMENT: The head of the Met is is right that taxpayers shouldn’t be paying the £70m-a-year cost of match-day policing, says Chris Blackhurst – the filthy-rich Premier League clubs and their billionaire owners should be footing the bill

Britain has too much crime because it has too many police forces, apparently. But don’t fret, Britons, the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has had A Big Idea. Sir Mark Rowley, chief of the ever-showered-in-glory Metropolitan Police, has proposed a radical overhaul of the make-up of police forces. What…

William attended a ceremony in Hyde Park that followed a service in St Paul’s and an earlier wreath-laying on the 20th anniversary of the atrocities.