Metropolitan Police leaving vulnerable children at risk, inspectorate warns Watchdog urges the force to make ‘urgent improvements’ to its handling of child protection Evening Standard · Oct 6, 2023
Susan Hall clashes with Sadiq Khan’s policing deputy on public trust in the Met The Tory mayoral candidate said Londoners’ trust in the police has ‘absolutely plummeted’ Evening Standard · Oct 6, 2023
Nearly 800 ULEZ cameras stolen or damaged in last six months There have been 795 ULEZ related crimes in the last six months with hundreds damaged or stolen across London, according to the Metropolitan Police The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2023
Sprinter appeared nervous during stop and search, Pc tells misconduct hearing Ricardo Dos Santos and Bianca Williams believe they were racially profiled during an encounter with five Metropolitan Police officers. The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2023
Laurence Fox arrested as video shows police officers searching his home The Metropolitan Police said a 45-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage. The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023
Met officer ‘incorrect’ when he said cannabis smell was coming from athletes’ car Ricardo Dos Santos and his partner, Team GB athlete Bianca Williams, believe they were racially profiled. Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023
Officer ‘incorrect’ when he said cannabis smell was coming from athletes’ car Ricardo Dos Santos and his partner, Team GB athlete Bianca Williams, believe they were racially profiled. The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023
Met Police officer ‘raped two women in space of 11 days’, trial hears A Metropolitan Police officer is accused raping two different women in the space of 11 days including an attack when one of the alleged victims says she was asleep, a court has heard. Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023
Who is Barry George, the man who went to prison for Jill Dando’s murder? George was later acquitted of her murder, and has talked about the anger he feels at losing years of his life to the case Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2023
Decision for Met officer who shot man to face misconduct hearing ‘unreasonable’ Jermaine Baker was killed during a Metropolitan Police operation to stop prisoners being freed near Wood Green Crown Court in December 2015. The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023
Key dates in Jermaine Baker case Jermaine Baker was shot during a Met Police operation that stopped a plot to snatch two prisoners from a van near Wood Green Crown Court in 2015. The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023
Sprinter denies routinely provoking police officers – misconduct panel Ricardo Dos Santos was questioned on two incidents in which his vehicles were stopped by police officers. The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023
Met firearms officer who shot Jermaine Baker to face misconduct hearing Mr Baker was killed during a Metropolitan Police operation to stop prisoners being freed near Wood Green Crown Court in December 2015. The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023
Knife crime offences: What the official figures show More than half of forces in England and Wales recorded fewer knife crime offences in 2022/23 than in 2019/20. The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023
Evening Standard · Sep 29, 2023 Man convicted after dog attacks police horse Urbane in Hackney’s Victoria Park Police horse Urbane needed months of recovery after the vicious attack in Victoria Park
Evening Standard · Sep 29, 2023 Man in his 30s seriously hurt after stabbing near East Croydon station The victim was attacked on College Road, south London
Evening Standard · Sep 28, 2023 Bianca Williams: Footage released of moment police handcuffed athlete as officers face misconduct probe Five Metropolitan officers are facing misconduct probe over stop of athlete Bianca Williams and her partner
The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2023 Athlete Bianca Williams cries as she recounts moment police handcuffed her Bianca Williams became tearful at a disciplinary hearing in London where five Metropolitan Police officers could be sacked if misconduct is proven.
Evening Standard · Sep 28, 2023 OPINION - Even Russell Brand is innocent until he is proven guilty Not as nice as he looks, it’s probably fair to say about comedian Russell Brand. Four women who spoke to The Sunday Times and the Channel 4 Dispatches programme have accused him of serious sexual assault, including one alleging rape. The Metropolitan Police has begun an investigation in a number…
Evening Standard · Sep 27, 2023 Family of woman killed by a police driving at 84mph in Brixton call for 999 speed limit The parents of a woman knocked down and killed by a police car travelling at 84mph have slammed an “insulting” sentence given to the Met officer who was behind the wheel.
The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2023 Former top cop hits out at missed opportunities for Met to accept it is ‘institutionally’ racist, after chief denies term AGAIN Exclusive: Ex assistant commissioner Neil Basu said it was a ‘mistake’ Sir Mark Rowley would not admit his force was ‘institutionally’ racist at the first London Policing Board meeting
The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2023 Vanessa Ford: Body found in search for missing mother of two Police investigate death on tracks in Hackney on morning of same day Vanessa Ford went missing
Evening Standard · Sep 26, 2023 Home Secretary Suella Braverman faces storm over Chris Kaba shooting comments Suella Braverman made a series of tweets after a Metropolitan Police officer was charged with the murder of Mr Kaba
The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2023 Who killed Jill Dando? The theories about what happened to BBC presenter 27 years after unsolved murder Jill Dando, one of the BBC’s most high profile presenters in the 1990s was killed outside her own home
Evening Standard · Sep 26, 2023 Met police marksmen sent home from COP26 over ‘Swoop’ puppet pictures lose discrimination claim Images had been posted on social media of a puppet – Police Dog Swoop – posing on an officer’s shoulder, looking through the telescopic sight of a sniper rifle, and in the gun’s cross hairs