2 h. ago Salisbury Novichok poisonings timeline: How Russian spy incident unfolded in 2018

Dawn Sturgess was killed by the Russian nerve agent, while a police officer and a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned

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5 h. ago West Dunbartonshire crime: Residents urged to be 'cautious' after reports of fake police officer

Three home owners were contacted by a woman impersonating an officer on Wednesday.

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6 h. ago Facial recognition to be expanded as views sought to shape new laws

A 10-week consultation is being launched that will ask for views on how the technology should be regulated and how to protect people’s privacy.

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7 h. ago 'Crook’ gets instant karma during bizarre police chase caught on camera

A man fleeing police officers - who appeared to be wearing one shoe - met an embarrassing end to his attempted escape thanks to the intervention of a heroic bystander

Events

11 h. ago Connecticut police find decomposed body after standoff with man who shot at officers

Connecticut police have found a decomposed body and numerous explosives inside a home after a standoff with a man who had barricaded himself and exchanged gunfire with officers

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13 h. ago 3 officers wounded and a suspect is killed in Omaha shooting

Three Omaha police officers were wounded in an exchange of gunfire with a shooting suspect who was killed

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14 h. ago University of Delaware student arrested on allegations of plotting an attack against campus police

Authorities say a University of Delaware student was arrested after police found a handgun, ammunition and written plans for an attack in his vehicle

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16 h. ago Urgent hunt for missing mother, 26, as family plead 'we just want her home'

Devon and Cornwall Police said that officers are concerned for the welfare of 26-year-old Marie Green, who was reported missing yesterday. She was last seen on CCTV at McDonald's in Truro.

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18 h. ago Female police officer, 29, sobbed after 'drunkenly groping colleagues and calling one a p**** when he rejected her'

PC Pamela Pritchard, 29, is accused of 'humiliating' a male colleague by twice putting her hands on his groin, as well as groping a female officer's breasts on a night out last year.

Events

21 h. ago Drunk and 'twerking' police officer was arrested after alleged gropes, hearing told

The police officer was later cleared of committing any crime at a rugby club in North Wales, where she also tried to kiss a an inspector

Events

21 h. ago Police officer said 'I want to f*** you' then got arrested for groping, hearing told

The police officer was later cleared of committing any crime at a rugby club in North Wales, where she also tried to kiss a an inspector

Events

23 h. ago Moment knifeman taunts police officer shouting 'Taser me, bro' before being apprehended

This is the dramatic moment police Taser a knife-wielding man after he taunted officers, shouting: 'Taser me, bro.'

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24 h. ago PC Sharon Beshenivsky's murderer who was on the run for 15 years died in jail from lung cancer after less than 12 months behind bars, inquest hears

Piran Ditta Khan, 76, was jailed in May last year for the murder of the West Yorkshire Police officer but died in February at HMP Wakefield.

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24 h. ago Ghanaian fugitive wanted for alleged rape in London arrested

Ghanaian fugitive wanted for alleged rape in London arrested  GhanaWeb

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24 h. ago Police officer drowns in Bristol harbour after going missing on night out

A police officer is believed to have drowned after going missing during a night out in Bristol city centre

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24 h. ago Police officer 'seriously injured' in alleged violent brawl at Oldham pub

“Our major concern is that an officer in the line of duty was seriously hurt"

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25 h. ago The Sarah Everard report part two: a catalogue of repeated and preventable failures | Joan Smith

So many reviews, so much hand-wringing, yet misogyny in England and Wales’s police forces and impunity for offenders remains the normHow do we get sexual predators out of the country’s police forces? It was one of the most urgent questions asked in 2021 when a serving police officer, PC Wayne Couzens, was charged with the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard. In the first report of Elish Angiolini’s inquiry into this dreadful sequence of events, published in February last year, she made the eminently sensible recommendation that any individual with a caution or conviction for a sexual offence should be rejected during police vetting.It seemed the very least that should happen, yet we’ve learned from Lady Angiolini’s second report this week that the recommendation has yet to be implemented. She reveals that it took 18 months after publication for police chiefs to agree a blanket ban on recruits who have convictions, and even then it wasn’t included in draft Home Office regulat...

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25 h. ago Cause of death of police officer who went missing after night out emerges

Rehaan Akhtar from Llanelli went missing after a night out in Bristol

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27 h. ago Teacher struck off for having sex with underage boy he met on dating app

Andrew Polwarth was detained by police officers as he returned from South Korea.

Politics

31 h. ago Final Hillsborough report provides closure but not consequences

Failings of legal system mean 97 people were unlawfully killed, but no one will be held accountableWhen the Independent Office for Police Conduct published the final report on its mammoth investigation into the Hillsborough disaster, the response from bereaved families and survivors was conflicted.Some of the IOPC’s findings could be regarded as historic, in particular that 12 former officers would have had cases to answer for gross misconduct, including Peter Wright, the chief constable of South Yorkshire police at the time of the 1989 disaster. Continue reading...

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