13 h. ago Met Police funding shortfall puts Barking and Dagenham units at risk, officer warns

Superintendant Biju Premnath said “frontline” services would be protected but other units were “at risk”

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26 h. ago Former senior police officer who was found with child abuse on her phone is SUING the Met after 'witch hunt destroyed her'

Ex Superintendent Novlett Williams is now taking the force to an employment tribunal, accusing it of racial and sexual discrimination, harassment, and victimisation.

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33 h. ago Pair of Met Police officers are sacked after one broke wind in colleague's face and another took photos of his genitals on her phone

PC Wayne Sansom tilted his leg at a 45-degree angle before breaking wind just 10-15cm from the horrified woman's face at Wembley Police Station in northwest London back in November 2021.

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47 h. ago Met Police officer accused of coercive control and starving cat and dog

PC Chris Eckford-Soper is accused of sitting on the cat and dog and hitting the animals

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5 d. ago Police officer told a woman he met on Tinder he would kidnap, rape and murder her in chilling echo to the Sarah Everard case, a court heard

Andrew Holmes was a serving officer with Hampshire Police when he made the 'menacing and disgusting' comment to a woman he had started speaking to on the dating app.

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8 d. ago ‘I don’t know if I’m going to feel normal again’ Child Q says over strip search

Two Met Police officers have been dismissed after being found to have committed gross misconduct in relation to the ‘disproportionate’ search.

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8 d. ago Met Police officers who strip searched black schoolgirl, 15, are SACKED

Metropolitan Police officers Pc Kristina Linge and Pc Rafal Szmydynski strip searched the young girl after her school wrongly suspected her of carrying cannabis in December 2020

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8 d. ago Two Met Police officers sacked for gross misconduct in Child Q search

A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, in December 2020, after being wrongly accused of carrying cannabis.

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8 d. ago Two Met Police officers sacked over ‘humiliating’ strip search of 15

Black schoolgirl forced to expose intimate parts in ‘traumatic’ police search at Hackney school in 2020 after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis

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8 d. ago Two Met Police officers sacked after committing gross misconduct over strip

A disciplinary hearing found search by three officers at school in Hackney was ‘unnecessary, inappropriate and disproportionate’

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8 d. ago Two Met Police officers committed gross misconduct with ‘humiliating’ strip search of Child Q

Black schoolgirl forced to expose intimate parts in ‘traumatic’ police search at Hackney school in 2020 after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis

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8 d. ago Two Met Police officers committed gross misconduct after ‘humiliating’ strip search of Child Q

Black schoolgirl forced to expose intimate parts in ‘traumatic’ police search at Hackney school in 2020 after wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis

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8 d. ago Two Met Police officers committed gross misconduct in Child Q search, panel says

A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, in December 2020, after being wrongly accused of carrying cannabis.

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8 d. ago Two Met Police officers guilty of gross misconduct after ‘humiliating’ strip search of Child Q

‘Child Q’ was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis when she was searched at a school in Hackney, east London, in 2020

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9 d. ago Inside London raids targeting ‘people smuggling gang' as four arrested

Met Police, Home Office and NCA storm homes and cafes believed to be used by smuggling gang who advertised illegal crossings to the UK on social media

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9 d. ago Inside dawn raids targeting 'London people smuggling gang' as four arrested

The Met Police, Home Office and NCA visited cafes in Walthamstow, Chingford and Dagenham believed to be used by members of the smuggling gang who advertised illegal crossings to the UK on social media

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9 d. ago Met Police officer accused of pinching female colleague's waist in 'fat test' at workplace gym and saying he had 'proper sex dream' about her could be sacked

PC Mark Neale faces a new police disciplinary panel after a female colleague in London said he 'pinched her hips' when she remarked about 'feeling fat'.

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1 week ago Police officers and Met chief express concerns over Notting Hill Carnival

Sir Mark Rowley questioned if funding for extra stewards will be secured in time for late August, while an officers’ group called the event ‘unsafe’.

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1 week ago Mugged Selina Scott wins apology from Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley after 'sub

Sir Mark Rowley admitted the force should have done better when he was quizzed by Nick Ferrari on his LBC show this morning.

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1 week ago Police arrested autistic activist in supported housing as part of Quaker raid operation

Exclusive: Joe Booth, 23, says he has PTSD after arrest in which seven police officers entered his flat while he was in bedThe Met police operation in which officers raided a Quakers meeting house also resulted in the arrest of an autistic climate activist at his supported accommodation, the Guardian can reveal.Joe Booth, 23, had been in bed when seven police officers arrived at the flats for vulnerable adults in New Barnet, north London, to arrest him on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance. Continue reading...

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