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Met Police chief Mark Rowley says government is holding up plans to sack rogue officers

Sir Mark said the current system is too slow and he cannot appeal against ‘unduly lenient decisions’

The Independent UK

Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley calls on Government to give police power to sack ‘rogue’ officers

Sir Mark said the current system is too slow and he cannot appeal against ‘unduly lenient decisions’.

Evening Standard

Met Police Commissioner says reform is needed to sack ‘rogue’ officers

Sir Mark said the current system is too slow and he cannot appeal against ‘unduly lenient decisions’.

The Independent UK

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Five Met Police officers under criminal investigation after man left unconscious during hospital restraint

Met officers under investigation for potential common assault and GBH

Evening Standard

Police hunt serial flasher after multiple lone women targeted in Harrow and Wembley areas

A man has exposed himself to four women in a 15-month period

Evening Standard

Almost two-fifths of robberies in London are of mobile phones

Mayor of London and Met Police chief urge phone companies to ‘design out’ theft

Evening Standard

Met Police appoints Assistant Commissioners to help run Scotland Yard

Two former Met Police constables have been appointed as Assistant Commissioners to help run Scotland Yard.

Evening Standard

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Met Police only authorised baton round use at Black-led events in recent years, FOI shows

Met says ethnicity of those likely to be involved in an event is not a factor in deciding police tactics

Evening Standard

Met Police officer who assaulted man during New Malden arrest sacked

A Met Police officer has been dismissed after he assaulted a man during an arrest.

Evening Standard

Drug dealers who murdered man on way home from Waitrose in mistaken identity killing are jailed

Sven Badzak, 22, and a 16-year-old friend were attacked by a group of six young men as they walked in Kilburn, north London

The Independent UK

Met Police officers fail to record 6,000 stop and searches in 17 months

The Met said that, on occasion, “there may be technical or equipment failure, which means an encounter isn’t recorded”

Evening Standard

Mother of man murdered in mistaken identity killing says dealing with ‘lazy’ Met Police was ‘horrendous’

Sven Badzak, 22, and a friend were attacked by a group of six men as they walked in Kilburn, north-west London, in February 2021

The Independent UK

Police investigating ‘double murder’ release CCTV footage to find body of missing woman

Fiona Holm was last been seen on CCTV on 20 June after she met up with friends

The Independent UK

CCTV shows last sighting of missing south London woman who police believe was murdered

Detectives have released CCTV footage of the last sighting of a woman they believe has been murdered.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Met Police shocked by increasing ‘ferocity’ of murders in London

Senior officer warns of ‘excessive violence’ as 65 people killed in capital so far this year

The Independent UK

Met Police to use respectful language and explain actions in new stop and search trial

Force’s scientific officer says police are being given new training and targeting areas ‘with very high risks of people getting stabbed or killed’

The Independent UK

Retired Met Police officers jailed over plot to share child sex abuse images

Jack Addis and Jeremy Laxton had posted hard drives to each other and to a serving Met Police chief inspector, who has since been found dead

Evening Standard

Sergeant Matt Ratana’s killer Louis De Zoysa sentenced to rest of his life in prison for murder

Judge said the murder of Sgt Ratana by Louis De Zoysa was planned, premeditated, and carried out ‘in cold blood’

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Met Police officer admits sending ‘grossly offensive’ WhatsApp messages

PC Tom Phillips suspended from duty over five messages sent in 2021

The Independent UK

Police watchdog to probe handcuffing of black mother wrongly accused of bus fare evasion

Video footage of the woman shouting as two male Metropolitan Police officers hold her arms and handcuff her has provoked criticism

Evening Standard

Met Police face probe over handcuffing of Black woman accused of dodging bus fare

The police watchdog has launched an investigation after Met Police officers arrested a Black woman in front of her “distressed” young son because they wrongly believed she had dodged paying her bus fare.

The Independent UK

Met Police face probe after black mother handcuffed and wrongly accused of bus fare evasion

Video footage of the woman shouting as two male Metropolitan Police officers hold her arms and handcuff her has provoked criticism.

Evening Standard

Probe launched as man, 30, dies in custody after being arrested by Met Police in Croydon

Watchdog to review CCTV from Croydon Custody Centre after man’s death

The Independent UK

Watchdog investigating Met Police’s handling of serial rapist David Carrick

The IOPC is investigating whether officers repeatedly failed to take appropriate action when criminal allegations were made against Carrick.

Evening Standard

Families pay tribute to boy, 15, and man, 23, killed in ‘brutal’ Islington double-murder

Leo Reid is remembered as ‘a bright, loving son’, and Klevi Shekaj as ‘a remarkable young man with a heart full of love’

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