3 h. ago Police chief’s lit cigarette set nursing home on fire, report finds

The Vienna Point residential care facility went up in flames on August 7, 2025, destroying the building

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41 h. ago Call to roll out Tasers across PSNI as attacks on officers spiral

Police Federation for Northern Ireland chief Liam Kelly said he wants to see officers able to better protect themselves.

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3 d. ago Police are facing ruin from Labour's 'soft justice crimewave': Forces set for £800million bill from plan to jail fewer criminals

Labour's soft justice reforms will unleash a crimewave, pushing some forces to the brink of bankruptcy, warn police chiefs.

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3 d. ago Asylum seekers should be electronically tagged so they can be tracked, says policing chief

Katy Bourne, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex, has proposed electronic tags are used on asylum seekers.

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3 d. ago Police apologise for wrongly claiming Jewish community supported ban on  Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending Aston Villa match

West Midlands Police (WMP) Chief Constable Craig Guildford admitted there was 'no documented feedback' that British Jews wanted Maccabi Tel Aviv fans barred from a match at Aston Villa.

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3 d. ago Former West Lothian chief police inspector recognised in New Year Honours List

Chief Superintendent Stevie Dolan received the King’s Police Medal (KPM).

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1 week ago Gibraltar’s chief minister made ‘sinister’ interventions to protect friend from police

Inquiry finds Fabian Picardo was ‘grossly improper’ to protect James Levy from a search warrantThe chief minister of Gibraltar made a series of “grossly improper” and “sinister” interventions to interfere in a live criminal investigation in order to protect his friend, mentor and business partner from the consequences of a search warrant, a public inquiry has found.The retired England and Wales high court judge and inquiry chair, Sir Peter Openshaw, concluded that Fabian Picardo acted to protect James Levy KC when police were at Hassans law firm, where Levy was a senior partner, on 12 May 2020 with a search warrant from “a legitimate police investigation and operation”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Head of counter terror policing says investigation thwarted what could have been the worst terror attack in UK history

Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts, the head of Counter Terrorism Policing in the North West, spoke out after Saadaoui and his co-defendant Amar Hussein were convicted of plotting the mass murder of Jews.

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1 week ago Andy Burnham apologises for past police LGBTQ+ discrimination

Greater Manchester mayor acknowledges ‘pain and suffering’ after region’s police chief declined to apologiseThe mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has apologised for past police failings towards LGBTQ+ people, acknowledging “unacceptable discrimination and the pain and suffering it caused”.Campaigners say the apology is in contrast to the stance of the chief constable of Greater Manchester police (GMP), Stephen Watson, who earlier this year declined to apologise on behalf of his force, saying that do so could be seen as “superficial and merely performative”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The gunman who murdered two students at Brown University also killed a professor at MIT, police reveal after the shooter is found dead in a storage facility

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief.

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2 w. ago Police officer filmed in sweary tirade against colleague and their children

Detective Superintendent Thomas Moore let the public and South Wales Police down, his Chief Constable told him at a misconduct hearing

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2 w. ago Did Manchester residents CELEBRATE Bondi terror attack? Police investigate claims and say that 'the intolerable has become normalised' amid rise of anti

Sir Stephen Watson, pictured, the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, said girls as young as ten have asked for armed officers to attend Hanukkah parties following the Bondi attack

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2 w. ago Minneapolis police chief criticizes ICE tactics after clash with protesters

Minneapolis' police chief is criticizing federal immigration agents after a confrontation with protesters on Monday

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2 w. ago Jeffery Carroll named interim DC police chief as federal law enforcement surge continues

Veteran police officer Jeffery Carroll is taking over as interim chief of Washington's police force

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2 w. ago Top cop misled family of murdered banker Alistair Wilson over arrest of suspect

Police Scotland Deputy Chief Constable Bex Smith was accused of misleading the family of murdered bank manager Alistair Wilson after the planned arrest of a suspect in May, 2023 was cancelled.

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2 w. ago UK’s chief rabbi welcomes police ‘globalise the intifada’ chant arrest decision

The heads of Greater Manchester Police and the Metropolitan Police said their officers will ‘act decisively and make arrests’.

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2 w. ago Police chiefs reveal chant which will get you arrested in the UK

Two of the country’s biggest police forces plan to arrest protesters who chant a specific phrase as officers stamp down on antisemitic hate crime in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack

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2 w. ago Protesters chanting 'globalise the intifada' will now be arrested in wake of Bondi beach massacre, police chiefs in London and Manchester say

Antisemitic messages, such as the one pictured, will be banned by the Met and Greater Manchester Police in the wake of the recent terror attack at a Jewish festival on Bondi beach

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2 w. ago Arrests to be made for chanting ‘globalise the intifada’, police chiefs say

Their statement comes following the Bondi Beach terror attack on Sunday.

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2 w. ago Police chiefs urge public to be vigilant in wake of Bondi and Manchester attacks ahead of Christmas

Senior officers from Counter Terror Policing and the British Transport Police have urged the public to come forward and report any suspicious activity this Christmas in an effort to combat crime.

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