Metropolitan Police

I was 17 years old when I was first stopped and searched by the police. Leaving my estate in Camberwell on an early Saturday evening, I had barely reached the bottom of the stairs before being apprehended by a white male and female duo. Stopping me entirely in my tracks…

The Metropolitan Police has sustained years of significant cuts, all the while delivering the extensive service required to police a capital city. Our police service is under unprecedented strain. Now that the Government has announced plans to recruit 20,000 police officers throughout England and Wales, we’re calling on the Mayor to request additional officers for London. Further, we’ve suggested that he requests assurances that the Government will fully fund the total cost of hiring new officers, including costs for police equipment, training, salaries and pensions.

2018 was another year in which the Metropolitan Police was placed under serious strain. The number of violent crimes committed continued to cause concern, the threat from terrorism remained severe and there have been a number of high-profile protests for the police to oversee. That’s why we just agreed…

Daniel Morgan Murder Inquiry and the million-page dodge [Updated] The Daniel Morgan Independent Panel report is delayed again.[1] It began in May 2013 with the claim it would report in 12 months. Within that first year, the original chair resigned[2] and one of the panel members did not take up…

Byline Investigations reveals the contents of an official report into the gruesome murder of grandmother Sally Hodkin by a schizophrenic patient which Scotland Yard was desperate to keep under wraps. — Damning findings of probe into murder by a schizophrenic patient of a stranger can be revealed • Long-awaited report on investigation has been leaked to reporter Mark Watts, highlighting failures by police and hospital staff as “root causes” of killing of grandmother Sally Hodkin in London

Unauthorised use of mobile phone examination tools by Police have undermined investigations into serious crimes. In previously unseen documents obtained by Bristol Cable, details have emerged of how Police forces across the UK are using secret and sophisticated technology to extract data from people’s mobile phones, even for low level…

There’s an awful story in The Guardian today about a police officer who repeatedly punched and kicked an emotionally distraught mother who refused to leave her child’s side in a London hospital. “A police officer who kicked and hit a mother as she sat by the hospital bed of her…