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The Latest Breaking News from Metropolitan Police

London migrant protests LIVE: Arrests as masked men clash with rivals outside Islington asylum hotel

The force has imposed conditions on a protest and counter protest outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel

Evening Standard · Aug 2, 2025

‘Increased police presence’ at asylum hotel protest

The Metropolitan Police said it has imposed conditions on a protest and counter protest outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel.

Evening Standard · Aug 1, 2025

Police impose conditions on London asylum hotel protest ‘to prevent serious disorder’

There will be an ‘increased police presence’, the Met says, for a protest and counter protest outside in London

The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2025

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Police impose conditions on asylum hotel protest

The Met Police said there would be an ‘increased police presence’ for a protest and counter protest outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel.

Evening Standard · Aug 1, 2025

Moment prolific thieves are caught as Met Police vow West End crime crackdown

Extra 80 officers join team focusing on hotspots around Oxford Circus and Regent Street

Evening Standard · Jul 31, 2025

Met Police to double use of facial recognition technology amid budget cuts

The move by London’s police force comes as it restructures to cover the loss of 1,400 officers and 300 staff amid budget shortages

Evening Standard · Jul 31, 2025

Britain’s biggest police force to double use of live facial recognition

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 Independent UK · Jul 30, 2025

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Mapped: London’s knife crime hotspots revealed

The West End is the capital’s knife crime hotspot, accounting for one in every 15 knife attacks in London, report says

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2025

Knife crime soars by 86% in London in a decade - with 20 West End streets revealed as the epicentre

Warning of knife crime ‘epidemic’ as offences soar 60% in last three years- as tributes paid to father and son killed in ‘targeted’ attack

Evening Standard · Jul 30, 2025

Man arrested after two killed in Southwark quadruple stabbing

A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2025

Two dead after stabbing at business in south London

Police and the London Ambulance Service attended the scene and treated four people for stab wounds

The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2025

Two killed in ‘targeted’ quadruple stabbing in south London named as rugby player and his father

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after Terry and Brendan McMillan were fatally stabbed in Bermondsey on Monday afternoon

Evening Standard · Jul 28, 2025

Police officers detained after smacking son win appeal after ‘unlawful’ arrests

The officers, who both serve with the Metropolitan Police, were arrested in March 2019

The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2025

Paul Gallagher, older brother of Oasis stars Liam and Noel, charged with rape and other sexual offences

Paul Gallagher, who lives in East Finchley in north London, has been charged by Scotland Yard following an investigation that began last year

Evening Standard · Jul 28, 2025

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Evening Standard · Jul 28, 2025

Ex-cop who led Levi Bellfield and London's night stalker investigations unveiled as Reform's crime advisor

Colin Sutton will help Nigel Farage's party develop its pledge to halve crime in five years

The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2025

Police offer £20,000 reward for information over fatal stabbing

The Metropolitan Police says it remains committed to finding Imran Maroof’s killer, a year after he was stabbed to death in east London

The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2025

Top Boy actor Micheal Ward charged with rape and sexual assault

The 27-year-old starred in drama series Top Boy

Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2025

Top chef says thieves have targeted Notting Hill restaurant 20 times — but Met do nothing about it

Richard Wilkins, who runs London's smallest fine dining restaurant, has branded Scotland Yard ‘a failure of organisation’

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International Business Times UK · Jul 24, 2025

Outrage as 4-Star Hotel in London to Welcome Hundreds of Asylum Seekers

Protests erupt at Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf as it prepares to house asylum seekers. Eggs thrown, police deployed, and costs hit £3bn yearly. Tensions rise over immigration policy, with locals and politicians divided.

Evening Standard · Jul 23, 2025

Five masked raiders guilty of music video double murder one of them later celebrated in drill rap song

Victims’ families in court wipe away tears as gang face life in jail for stabbing Leonardo Reid, 15, and Klevi Shekaj, 23, in Archway

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2025

Full list of police officer numbers in England and Wales, by force

The Metropolitan Police saw the largest drop in officers in the latest year, down 1,022 from 34,315 to 33,293.

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2025

‘Travesty’ no officers prosecuted for Jean Charles de Menezes’ death – family

Dozens of people joined his relatives for a vigil outside Stockwell Tube station in south London, where the Brazilian was shot and killed by police.

Evening Standard · Jul 22, 2025

Four people hospitalised after gas leak in Kilburn

The Metropolitan Police, London Fire Brigade, and London Ambulance Service were all scrambled to the scene

Evening Standard · Jul 19, 2025

More than 100 Palestine Action protesters arrested across UK

Demonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday.

Evening Standard · Jul 19, 2025

Dozens of Palestine Action protesters arrested across UK

Demonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday.

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