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Met Police funding shortfall puts Barking and Dagenham units at risk, officer warns

Superintendant Biju Premnath said “frontline” services would be protected but other units were “at risk”

Evening Standard

Paedophiles, rapists and violent robbers among 1,000 criminals arrested by Met using facial recognition technology

In total, 93 registered sex offenders have been arrested by Met officers as part of the 1,035 arrests seen since the start of 2024 using the controversial tech

Evening Standard

Met Police officer accused of coercive control and starving cat and dog

PC Chris Eckford-Soper is accused of sitting on the cat and dog and hitting the animals

Evening Standard

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Police investigate Bob Vylan over ‘death to IDF’ call at gig before Glastonbury

The Met Police are investigating comments ‘allegedly made during a concert at Alexandra Palace earlier this year’.

The Independent UK

Police investigate Bob Vylan over ‘death to IDF’ call at London gig before Glastonbury

Metropolitan Police investigate comments ‘allegedly made during a concert at Alexandra Palace earlier this year’

Evening Standard

Teenager forced to expose herself in Met Police strip search says she may ‘never feel normal again’

Two Metropolitan Police officers have been sacked for gross misconduct following a four-week tribunal examining the strip-search in a Hackney school in 2020

The Independent UK

‘There was no time for fear’, says officer who confronted sword-wielding killer facing life sentence for schoolboy's murder

Marcus Monzo killed 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin during a 20-minute rampage in Hainault, east London

Evening Standard

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‘There was no time for fear’, says officer who confronted Hainault attacker

Inspector Moloy Campbell said his thoughts were entirely focused on the need to ‘preserve life’ including that of his officers on the ground.

The Independent UK

First picture of ‘good guy’, 22, killed trying to stop brawl on busy west London street

Dara Omar collapsed on Hanworth Road outside the Hounslow Muslim Centre

Evening Standard

Illegal workers repeatedly hired at famous Kensington café dedicated to Princess Diana

Some staff at Café Diana, which opened in 1989 opposite the gates of Kensington Palace, claimed they were being paid in food

Evening Standard

Two Met Police officers committed gross misconduct in Child Q search, panel says

A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, in December 2020, after being wrongly accused of carrying cannabis.

Evening Standard

Child Q: 'I don't know if I'm going to feel normal again' says woman as Met officers sacked over strip search

A disciplinary hearing found search by three officers at school in Hackney was ‘unnecessary, inappropriate and disproportionate’

Evening Standard

Drug kingpins who plotted murder of rival jailed for life

The court heard that James Harding, 34, and Jayes Kharouti, 39, ran a vast criminal empire.

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Sword attacker guilty of murdering schoolboy in east London street rampage

Marcus Arduini Monzo claimed he was inspired by the Hunger Games when he launched the attacks in Hainault

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More than half of women don't feel safe on the streets of London, shock poll reveals

Capital has become less safe in last five years, say half of respondents, in blow to efforts to tackle violence against women and girls

Evening Standard

Palestine Action protest LIVE: Police make arrests as protesters vent fury over move to ban 'terrorist' group

The Standard’s coverage of the Palestine Action protest in central London after Home Secretary announces move to ban group

The Independent UK

Banning Palestine Action may be ‘escalation too far’, says Labour peer

The concerns come as Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will update Parliament on Monday on the Government’s plan to ban Palestine Action.

Evening Standard

Met Police appeal after ‘priceless’ 280-year-old violin stolen from pub

The instrument belongs to a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Police appeal as violin made in 1740 and worth over £150,000 is stolen from pub in Islington

The violin was stolen from The Marquess Tavern, Canonbury Street, on the evening of Tuesday, February 18

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Woman, 69, in 'critical condition' after being hit by a car in south Harrow

The incident took place just after 6am on Saturday on Eastcote Lane, Met Police said

Evening Standard

'Loving father' shot dead in suspected case of mistaken identity as Met police launch appeal

Mahad Abdi Mohamed was a ‘loving father’ who was planning to get married in the summer

The Independent UK

Serial rapist who drugged and filmed 10 women in London and China jailed for life

Zhenhao Zou, who kept a trophy box full of possessions he had taken from his victims, will serve a minimum of 24 years

Evening Standard

Sword attacker denies re-enacting rampage in chat about ‘killing films’

Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, has claimed he has no memory of killing Daniel Anjorin, 14, and attacking five other people in Hainault, east London.

Evening Standard

Father tells of year-long 'groping' nightmare after being wrongly accused of sexually assaulting waiter

Simon Correia, 48, endured a year-long legal battle to clear his name when he was falsely accused of groping a waiter

The Independent UK

Voices: I’m a Met Police whistleblower – and these are the horror stories I’ve heard

COMMENT: It's not the life-and-death situations that make ‘blue-light’ work intolerable, it’s the rogue employees who the forces won’t sack, says former 999 call handler turned police conduct campaigner Issy Vine

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