15 h. ago Met Police to hand golden goodbyes to underperforming officers

Underperforming senior officers are being given a chance to jump before they are shown the door

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23 h. ago Met Police chief accused of making ‘thinly veiled threat’ to senior officers over job cuts

Sir Mark Rowley faces backlash over a proposed pay-off scheme for senior ranks, with union leaders accusing him of pressuring loyal officers to leave

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23 h. ago Former Met police officer accused of using sex workers while on duty

Exclusive: Imran Patel, who resigned last year after reports about his conduct, is being investigated by the IOPCA former Metropolitan police officer allegedly used sex workers while on duty in the midst of a major investigation into behavioural standards, the Guardian can reveal.Britain’s largest police force has been described as “institutionally misogynistic” after widespread claims that a “toxic” sexist culture has been allowed to thrive for decades. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Met Police sergeant who said detainee ‘deserves to be beaten up’ in BBC Panorama footage sacked

Police Sergeant Lawrence Hume, based within the Metropolitan Police detention unit, was filmed as part of a BBC Panorama programme

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39 h. ago Met officer who shared messages about sexually abusing children avoids jail— but does get the sack

Messages of a ‘extreme, violent and sexual nature’ were found on former PC Duncan Bouette’s phone

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65 h. ago Man, 87, fighting for life after being robbed outside Post Office branch in north London

Enfield MP Feryal Clark ‘deeply concerned’ about attack witness said happened as victim ambushed at cashpoint machine

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3 d. ago Wandsworth prisoner LIVE: 'Sex offender' on loose as another released by mistake

A prisoner has been accidentally released from HMP Wandsworth and officers are urgently trying to locate him, the Met Police have said

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4 d. ago UK cops fly to India to hunt fugitive charged with murdering his wife

Northamptonshire Police officers have met the family of Harshita Brella in India as the hunt continues for her husband who is charged with murder

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4 d. ago Met Police officer who tried to meet girl, 10, for sex after messaging her ‘stepfather’ online spared jail

PC Grant Long, 34, snared by an undercover officer posing as a paedophile

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4 d. ago 'Predator' Met Police officer 'confessed in letter to sexually abusing 12

David Carrick is accused of writing a letter ‘confessing’ to sexually abusing a girl

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7 d. ago Police watchdog contacts Met over claim Andrew asked officer to dig up information on Virginia Giuffre

The Met confirmed last month that it was ‘actively looking into’ the claim

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1 week ago Man arrested over Uxbridge stabbing entered UK in lorry in 2020, officials say

A 49-year-old man was killed in the incident on Monday evening and two other people were injured.

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1 week ago Fury at police starring in social media 'ads' after Met cop endorses vape shop and West Midlands officer promotes chicken takeaway

One Instagram video shows a Met Police officer boasting about receiving discounts at a vape retailer in Leytonstone, East London.

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2 w. ago Prince Andrew police update as Met officers 'blocked Virginia Giuffre lawsuit'

The Metropolitan Police have confirmed they are expanding an ongoing review into the conduct of officers amid allegations they obstructed efforts to serve legal papers on Prince Andrew

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2 w. ago Frantic hunt for freed migrant sex attacker: Net closes in as asylum seeker who assaulted girl, 14, is spotted in London as police reveal where he got off train

Specialist officers from Met Police have launched a massive manhunt for Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 41, who was released in error from HMP Chelmsford on Friday.

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2 w. ago Fourth Met officer at scandal police station sacked after being filmed boasting about how he 'whacked the s*** out' of a suspect

The undercover footage shows PC Jason Sinclair-Birt tell a colleague he 'whacked the s**t out of the back of his legs' while discussing the use of force on a detainee.

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2 w. ago Met Police officer filmed ‘revelling in use of force’ on detainee is sacked

Pc Jason Sinclair-Birt’s comments were captured in undercover footage.

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2 w. ago Three disgraced Met police officers exposed in BBC Panorama documentary sacked by Met

Officers sacked in first fast-track hearings after documentary exposed Islamophobic, racist and discriminatory comments by officers at Charing Cross Police Station

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2 w. ago THREE police officers exposed in BBC Panorama documentary SACKED from the Met

Met Police officer Joe McIlvenny, pictured, has been sacked from the force at a special misconduct hearing in south London today following the recent BBC Panorama film

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2 w. ago Met Police officer is cleared of 'sharing CCTV footage with his girlfriend' of homeless man raping NHS worker as she lay unconscious on a park bench

PC Adam Aspinall Da Encarnacao was accused of sharing images of two separate rape offences with a member of the public.

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