4 h. ago Murder of Sarah Everard was ‘monumental moment’ for Met Police, detective says

Detective Katherine Goodwin was decorated with the King’s Police Medal by Charles during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.

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41 h. ago Revealed: Smirking Ukrainian refugee, 33, who sexually assaulted a woman in busy London station after fleeing war claimed he was 'stressed about the conflict'

Andrii Starovoitov, 33, launched his attack after joining the queue for the female toilets at London Bridge station just after 7pm on October 26 last year.

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1 week ago 'Despicable' scammer posed as a police detective to steal £27,000 from woman in her 90s

Sharmarke Ahmed took cash and jewellery

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2 w. ago Former SNP MP Mhairi Black to make acting debut in new BBC legal drama

The former MP plays a police detective in Counsels, which is being filmed in Glasgow and will be aired on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer.

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2 w. ago Police 'told burglary victim you should work for us' after he was forced to carry out his own detective work when they failed to make any progress

When owners of Up Top Roofing & Scaffolding in Poole, Dorset, were burgled three times in six months, they decided to take matters into their own hands.

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2 w. ago US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearm

Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspiciousAn artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun

Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspiciousAn artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Three arrested in UK on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence service

Men, aged 44, 45 and 48, detained by Metropolitan police under section 3 of National Security ActThree men, aged 44, 45 and 48, have been arrested on suspicion of assisting Russia’s intelligence service, the Metropolitan police said.The men were arrested by detectives from counter-terrorism policing at addresses in west and central London on Thursday and were in police custody, the force added. They were detained under section 3 of the National Security Act. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?

As the police and courts continue to struggle with the legacy of austerity, many people are seeking alternative routes to justice – but it could be making matters worseIn the summer of 2018, the private investigator Simon Davison got a call from a woman who said her ex-boyfriend had stolen £10,000 from her. Carol (not her real name), a traffic manager at a local council, was not a typical client for Davison. As the director of investigations at AnotherDay, a crisis consultancy in London, Davison usually works for wary companies and wealthy individuals. A former police detective, Davison has recovered stolen cryptocurrency, uncovered secret properties owned by bankrupt business people and tracked down fraudsters to Cyprus.Davison’s speciality is private prosecutions, a little-known area of law that allows victims to pay for justice. These cases are heard in the same courts used by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the public prosecutor for England and Wales, and they can carry the...

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4 w. ago Shock new theory emerges as police launch new search for missing four

Former NSW homicide detective Gary Jubelin believes that police are now looking 'further afield' for the 'sake of completeness' in the renewed search for four-year-old Gus Lamont.

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