3 h. ago Man attacked police officer and attempted to fire taser at him

The police officer needed hospital treatment after Mark Workman, 44, used the weapon to repeatedly attack

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5 h. ago Des O'Connor's daughter says police 'cannot be trusted with women's safety' after decision not to sack officer who called her 'amazingly hot' and sexually harassed her while investigating her mugging

Former detective chief inspector James Mason called Kristina O'Connor, 37, his 'favourite Camden victim of crime' and asked her out after she was injured in an attempted robbery in October 2011.

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6 h. ago Three Met officers face misconduct hearing after woman with dementia, 90, is handcuffed and marked with Taser

The elderly woman was handcuffed and put in a spit hood during the incident in Peckham, south London in 2023

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7 h. ago Met officers to face gross misconduct hearing after woman, 90, targeted with Taser

Two serving officers and one former officer to face hearing after woman was also handcuffed and put in spit hoodTwo serving Metropolitan police officers and one former officer will face a gross misconduct hearing after a 90-year-old woman with dementia was targeted with a Taser, the police watchdog said.The woman was also handcuffed and put in a spit hood during the incident in Peckham, south London, in May 2023, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Three Met officers facing misconduct hearing after woman, 90, marked with Taser

The woman, who had dementia, was also handcuffed and put in a spit hood during the incident in Peckham, south London, on May 9 2023.

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9 h. ago Met Police officers to face misconduct hearing after woman with dementia, 90, handcuffed and put in spit hood

A 90-year-old Black woman with dementia was ‘red-dotted’ with a Taser, handcuffed and put in a spit hood

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9 h. ago PSNI ‘far more robust’ in response to attacks on officers, warns Jon Boutcher

The chief constable was highlighting high levels of assaults against officers across all areas of policing.

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10 h. ago Police officer who followed BMW before fatal crash denies he was pursuing car

Muhammad Qasim, 29, died after failing to negotiate a bend and crashing into a tree in the early hours of October 2 2023, an inquest heard.

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11 h. ago Police officers are suspended after they're filmed having SEX in patrol car in broad daylight

A resident of Larnaca in southeastern Cyprus was driving through an open field when they spotted the male and female police officers having sexual intercourse in their parked car.

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12 h. ago Rookie Met Police officer cracks £150k south London shoplifting ring with DNA trap

In a first-of-its-kind operation for the Met, the synthetic DNA allowed stolen goods to be uniquely identified and traced back to their original stores

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19 h. ago Police hit back at Cole Cooper's mum who claims 'third party' involved in his death

After Cole Cooper disappeared a large-scale search was launched, involving helicopters, divers, digital experts, and hundreds of police officers - but his mum is convinced there was 'third party' involvement

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20 h. ago Key takeaways from the acquittal of Karen Read in her Boston police officer boyfriend's death

Karen Read has walked out of a Massachusetts court a free woman after a jury found her not guilty of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend

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23 h. ago French authorities finally promise to intercept small boats in the Channel as shocking figures reveal one migrant reaches Britain every four

A new 'maritime doctrine' set to come into operation next month allows French police officers to block dinghy departures within 300 yards of the shoreline.

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25 h. ago Photos of Karen Read's dramatic courtroom moment after acquittal on murder charge

Karen Read was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe. The jury convicted her of a lesser charge of drunken driving, however.

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28 h. ago Jury reaches verdict in Karen Read murder trial over death of Boston police boyfriend

Jurors in the murder trial of Karen Read say they’ve reached a verdict in a divisive case about the death of a Boston police officer that lawyers have presented as either a tragic love story or a sinister cover-up

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32 h. ago Man who 'cannot take no for an answer' climbed through window into woman's house

While being arrested Samie Ireland kicked, bit, and spat at police officers and threatened them that he knew where they lived

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32 h. ago ‘Good shot, though’: Suspect compliments officer after he is gunned down

California police body cam captured the bizarre moment a suspect complimented officers on their aim after being gunned down.

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33 h. ago Cop, 26, playing for the combined British Police rugby team raped a university student in his hotel room after meeting her in a nightclub, court hears

A police officer playing for the combined forces British Police rugby team raped a university student in his hotel room after meeting in a nightclub, a court heard today.

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35 h. ago Beauty therapist, 35, dodges jail after attacking FIVE police officers, treating them like 'punch bags' and spitting at them, court hears

Lucy Theunissen, 35, treated police officers like 'punch bags' in a shocking sustained attack after she caused a blazing row at a Chinese takeaway in Basingstoke, Hants last year

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37 h. ago Moment brazen yobs livestream themselves smashing police car before speeding off on bikes as baffled officers run after them

This is the shocking moment brazen yobs livestreamed themselves jumping on a parked police car and smashing its windscreen at a BP forecourt.

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