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UK police

  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    London funding shortfall puts 2,700 Met Police jobs at risk

    Britain’s largest force plans for major cuts to staff and services if budget negotiations fail

    Metropolitan Police officers
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Labour party UK
    UK transport secretary Louise Haigh admits historic offence over phone claim

    Labour MP told police that work phone had been stolen in mugging, only to find it later

    Transport secretary Louise Haigh
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Streets are safer but our policing is no better

    Yvette Cooper plans reforms to improve performance across England and Wales, urging better government leadership

    A police officer in Westminster
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    London’s Met police has ‘exhausted’ its financial buffers

    UK’s largest force has depleted reserves keeping operations afloat and could face ‘eye-watering cuts’ in year ahead

    Metropolitan police officers outside Wembley Stadium in London, England in August 2024
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Police reform has become a forgotten issue

    Fatal shootings by armed UK officers are rare and statistics suggest system for monitoring cases is reasonable

    Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley reads a statement after police officer Martyn Blake was found not guilty of murdering Chris Kaba at New Scotland Yard, London
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Metropolitan Police Service UK
    Met Police misconduct settlements double to £7.6mn

    UK’s biggest force resolves hundreds of cases, including claims of racial profiling and using false evidence

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Met police use of facial recognition in London surges

    Force used the technology 117 times from January to August, up from 32 between 2020 and 2023

    Met Police officers in Edgeware Road, London
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    UK crime
    UK police and crime minister’s purse stolen at police conference

    Diana Johnson’s belongings stolen from hotel where she gave speech to members of Police Superintendents’ Association

    Dame Diana Johnson, the minister for policing, fire and crime prevention
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    When the dust settles after the riots, Britain will need a rethink

    While lurid predictions of civil war are misplaced, this is not a country at ease with itself

    A man wearing a Union Jack scarf around his eyes brandishes a mobile phone in one hand and a brick in the other
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Hooligans, criminals, children: Who are the UK rioters?

    First ‘swift justice’ court cases show those convicted for far-right violence

    Rioters in Rotherham
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Starmer tells police to stay on ‘high alert’ as UK rioters jailed

    PM says police operations and swift execution of justice have acted as a deterrent after days of violence

    Keir Starmer speaks to police officers
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Far-right groups plan to target homes in attack on lawyers, police told

    Keir Starmer vows to take ‘all necessary action’ to end unrest as online message reveals plan for co-ordinated action

    Rioters throw a flaming wheelie bin
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    UK riots
    UK rioters as young as 14 charged as government promises ‘swift justice’

    Further violence expected as unrest enters second week

    Two police officers hold a man at a demonstration
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Using night courts to charge rioters will add to UK justice backlog, warns prosecutor

    Nazir Afzal says judges may need to be called out of retirement and defence solicitors paid upfront

    Police detain a man during clashes in Middlesbrough on Sunday
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    UK riots
    UK rioters to face ‘swift justice’ as Starmer convenes Cobra over violence

    Emergency government committee set to meet after weekend of clashes

    Rioters in Rotherham target a hotel housing asylum seekers on Sunday
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Fresh violence flares after dozens of rioters arrested across England

    Mob storms hotel housing asylum seekers as PM vows ‘extremists’ will feel full force of law

    Police woman walks past a burning car
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Starmer vows ‘extremists’ will feel full weight of law after riot arrests

    Judges consider keeping courts open all night after mobs clash with police across England

    Police face down a mob in Liverpool on Saturday
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Rioting breaks out in Sunderland as UK police brace for weekend of unrest

    Home Office warns that anyone using violence will face ‘full force of the law’

    A police car is set on fire in far-right disturbances in Sunderland on Friday night
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Starmer announces new violent disorder unit as police brace for more riots

    Prime minister speaks to police chiefs after protests following mass stabbing on Monday

    Crowds watch as protesters throw a bin towards a vehicle in Southport, England on July 30 2024
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    UK riots
    Police make arrests after riot in UK town where girls died in mass stabbing

    Far-right group blamed for violence in which at least 50 officers were injured

    Riot police hold back protesters in Southport
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    UK crime
    Shoplifting and street theft surge in England and Wales

    Annual crime survey shows stealing has risen 30% to 20-year high but retailers believe actual figures are higher

    Two police officers between a man in handcuffs
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Officer on Sunak protection detail arrested over alleged bet on timing of UK poll

    Member of political bodyguard unit first to be held since gambling probe launched after admission by Tory MP

    A sign for a polling station in London
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK crime
    Crime becomes an election issue in Tory heartland of Surrey

    Falling police numbers, mental health call-outs and ‘Me Too’ investigations said to be behind drop in convictions

    Police officers taking part in an operation in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Money laundering
    Chinese fraud victims seek return of £3bn in bitcoin seized in UK

    Group calls for help from Beijing to recover funds held by London police since money laundering investigation

    A montage with pictures of the two women
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Scottish politics
    Scottish police receive 7,000 hate crime complaints in first week of new law

    ‘Substantial increase’ in reports since contentious law challenged by JK Rowling was enacted on April 1

    Members of the public walk past a hate crime billboard in Glasgow on Wednesday
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