7 h. ago London crime hotspots revealed as capital faces ‘tidal wave’ of offending with 1,700 Met police officers and staff axed

Around 957,481 crimes were recorded across the capital in the year to December 2024

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62 h. ago 'Glaring gap in law closed': Met Police hail new rules as officers who fail vetting to be automatically sacked

Police chiefs will be able to sack officers deemed unfit to serve from next month under rules announced by Home Office

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3 d. ago Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman stabbed to death in Enfield over Easter weekend

Officers from Met Police were called to an address at Ayley Croft, Enfield at around 7pm on Saturday

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1 week ago Met Police officer is sacked after sharing Instagram post of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu morphing into Adolf Hitler

Detective Constable Ibrahim Khan posted the screenshot in October, 2023, which was already captioned: 'The irony of becoming what you once hated. Well done Israel, Hitler would be proud.'

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1 week ago Met Police officers dress up as Batman and Robin in ‘creative tactic’ to catch street scammers

Metropolitan Police officers apprehended scammers on Westminster Bridge dressed as Batman and Robin in February, after having to hatch "creative plans" to "deliver vengeance."

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2 w. ago Moment Met Police officers go undercover dressed as Batman and Robin to catch Westminster Bridge con artists

The inventive ploy saw two officers burst into a crowd of tens of people disguised as the superheroes before grabbing the scammers. Two men have since been convicted at Croydon Magistrates Court.

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2 w. ago Former Met Police officer found guilty of assault but acquitted of rape

Jorden Brown resigned from the force before he was convicted of assaulting victim

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2 w. ago Axing 'safer school' Met police officers will leave more pupils vulnerable to knife crime, say teachers

Pupils say they are worried ‘more knives and drugs’ will be brought in as a result of the move

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2 w. ago Serving Met Police officer, 32, is charged with four counts of rape and sexual assaults

Pc Dion Arnold, 32, was charged with four counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault on March 31, the force said.

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2 w. ago Serving Met Police officer is charged with four counts of rape and sexual assaults

Pc Dion Arnold was charged with four counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault on March 31, the force said.

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2 w. ago Police warn over swimming dangers as temperatures expected to hit 22C

It comes after Izaiah Smith, 15, died after getting “into difficulty” in a park lake in south-east London last week.

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2 w. ago Paddington crash: Two critical after car crashes following police chase

A driver failed to stop for officers in a marked Met Police vehicle at around 4.20am on Saturday near Westbourne Terrace in Paddington.

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3 w. ago Phone theft hotspots marked with ‘blue plaques’ in City of London

Criminals snatched 70,137 devices last year - one every seven-and-a-half minutes

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3 w. ago UK’s biggest police force to axe 1,700 officers and staff despite funding boost

The Metropolitan Police will cut services including the Royal Parks Police.

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3 w. ago Met Police to cut 1,700 officers and staff amid shock funding fears

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan confirms Royal Parks unit will be disbanded - despite fierce opposition from councils and victims

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3 w. ago Met Police to lose 1,700 officers and staff in £260m shortfall

Met Police to lose 1,700 officers and staff in £260m shortfall  BBC

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3 w. ago Moment two prolific shoplifters are caught in the act by Met Police officers

Donavan Soloman and Lee Moise targeted a Co-op store on Homerton High Street, Hackney

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3 w. ago Dancing On Ice star devastated after being left without an ITV job as show is AXED amid plummeting ratings

Following the final earlier this month, rumours had been swirling that the skating show was facing the axe with staff told of the news.

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3 w. ago Woman, in her 30s, is arrested after body of newborn baby boy found in M&S bag outside church in Notting Hill

Officers from the Met Police were called at 12:46pm last Tuesday to All Saints Church on Talbot Road in the Notting Hill area after the baby boy's body was found.

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