25 h. ago Home Office bails out 'bankrupt' police force for first time over £65million black hole

South Yorkshire Police has become the first force in the UK to issue a '114 notice' asking the Government for help. It blamed an 'accounting error' which went unnoticed for five years

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27 h. ago Britain's biggest police forces hired tens of thousands of officers without doing full employment checks

Some of the UK's largest forces secretly abandoned pre-employment checks on new recruits for six years after the last Government announced a £3 billion programme to recruit 20,000 officers nationwide.

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3 d. ago Serial rapist David Carrick among Met Police officers not properly vetted before joining force

Carrick, who was given 37 life sentences for his crimes, was not properly vetted in 2017, with checks failing to reveal an allegation of domestic abuse against him

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1 week ago Freemasons seek injunction to halt plans forcing Met officers to reveal their membership

An inquiry into 1987 axe murder of private detective Daniel Morgan recommended that Freemasonry membership should be declared

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1 week ago Freemasons seek injunction against Met policy requiring officers to declare membership

Exclusive: Organisation accuses Sir Mark Rowley of religious discrimination and ‘whipping up conspiracy theories’Freemasons have demanded an emergency injunction from the high court to halt the Metropolitan police’s new policy that orders officers to tell their bosses if they are members of the organisation.The Freemasons filed papers in London on Christmas Eve and claim the Met’s policy amounts to “religious discrimination” against Freemasons who are also police officers. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Freemasons call in lawyers to stop the Met Police from forcing officers to declare their membership

A letter has called on the Met, led by Sir Mark Rowley, to suspend its decision to make officers publicly declare membership or face a judicial review.

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3 w. ago Freemasons versus the Met: Grand Lodge set to take legal action in bid to maintain police membership secrecy

A letter before action calls on the Met to suspend the decision to force officers to publicly declare membership, or face a judicial review

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3 w. ago Freemasons set to take legal action over Met Police membership declaration plan

A letter before action calls on the Met to suspend the decision to force officers to publicly declare membership, or face a judicial review.

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