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Man handcuffs himself to gates of Buckingham Palace and threatens to self-harm

A man has handcuffed himself to the gates of Buckingham Palace on Thursday evening, Metropolitan Police said.

Evening Standard

Met Police officer set to face misconduct hearing over fatal shooting of Jermaine Baker after landmark ruling

The Metropolitan Police firearms officer who shot dead a father-of-two during an operation to foil a prison break can face misconduct proceedings, judges have ruled.

Evening Standard

Partygate: Met reopens probe into Tory ‘jingle and mingle’ party and launches investigation into parliament event

Decision to reopen the investigation into the Christmas party at Tory headquarters comes after ‘new evidence’ was provided to officers

Evening Standard

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Three Washington DC businesses targeted with explosive devices as hooded suspect on loose

Metropolitan Police released surveillance images of the suspect – dressed in black trousers and a white/cream hooded top – as well as a vehicle wanted in connection to the attacks

The Independent UK

A DC Nike store, Safeway and ATM were targeted with explosives. Now the hunt is on to catch a hooded suspect

Metropolitan Police are hunting for a hooded figure and suspect vehicle after explosive devices were detonated one by one across three Washington DC businesses. Rachel Sharp reports

The Independent UK

Boy stabbed to death as 'group of 20 took laughing gas' after gathering of expensive cars

Blood stains are visible in two places on a white Mercedes, part of an area Metropolitan Police has cordoned off as they investigate the tragedies in Islington, north London

Daily Mirror

Police spying unit should have been shut down in 1970s, report finds

The Metropolitan Police Special Demonstration Squad spied on hundreds of campaign groups over four decades.

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Met Police’s undercover tactics slammed as spying ‘not justified’, landmark inquiry rules

Inquiry looked at women who were deceived into sexual relationships with officers and spying on justice campaigns including that for murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence

The Independent UK

‘Devastating for the Met, MI5 and Government’: Campaigners react to landmark undercover policing report

Campaigners are calling for all secret police files on them to be released and the publication of all of the names of undercover officers

Evening Standard

Spying on left-wing groups by secret Met Police squad 'not justified', report finds

Spying on left-wing groups by a secret Metropolitan police squad was not justified and the unit should have been closed down, a landmark report has…

The National (Scotland)

Three Just Stop Oil protestors arrested after Lord's Ashes Test halted by pitch invasion

The first day of the second Ashes Test at Lord's between England and Australia on Wednesday was disrupted after Just Stop Oil protesters ran onto the field of play

Daily Mirror

Police horse Urbane back on patrol in east London after horrific dog attack

Urbane ‘took it all in his stride’, Metropolitan Police say

Evening Standard

Stephen Lawrence: Who was murder suspect Matthew White and why was he never charged?

Matthew White has been identified as the sixth suspect in the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence - and new findings suggest multiple opportunities were missed to build a case against him

Daily Mirror

Stephen Lawrence's mum 'unsurprised' by police failures as new murder suspect named

Stephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old aspiring architect, was murdered on his way home in an unprovoked attack by a gang of racists in Eltham, south-east London, in April 1993

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Where Stephen Lawrence's murderers are now as new suspect is named

Police have confirmed the name of a sixth alleged attacker in the UK's most notorious racist murder after the Metropolitan Police admitted 'many mistakes' were made in the 1990s investigation

Daily Mirror

New Stephen Lawrence suspect named as Met Police makes rare decision for racist murder

Police have confirmed the name of a sixth alleged attacker in the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence after the Metropolitan Police said 'many mistakes' were made in the 1990s investigation

Evening Standard

Services restored after Met Police 999 system disrupted by nationwide ‘technical fault’

The issue has affected a number of police forces across the country

Evening Standard

Met Police officer accused of rape pleads not guilty

A Metropolitan Police officer has pleaded not guilty to raping a woman in an incident more than two years ago.

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Louis De Zoysa found guilty of murdering Met Police custody sergeant Matt Ratana

Louis De Zoysa, 25, fired the antique pistol four times just as 54-year-old custody sergeant Matt Ratana was preparing to search him in the course of an arrest

Daily Mirror

Man guilty of murdering cop Matt Ratana with hidden antique gun at police station

Sgt Matt Ratana was just weeks from retirement when he was shot by Louis de Zoysa in a custody station in Croydon in September 2020

Daily Mirror

Inside horror cramped lorry space where smugglers forced migrants to hide on way to UK

A gang of smugglers have been jailed for bringing Albanian migrants to the UK, with new photos released by police showing the claustrophobic conditions inside the lorries

Evening Standard

Gang who smuggled Albanian illegal migrants into UK behind lorry drivers’ seats jailed

In one text, the criminals boasted of ‘99 per cent’ success rate

Daily Mirror

Woman, 76, found at bottom of stairs was killed in 'burglary gone wrong'

Metropolitan Police, probing the murder in Croydon, south London, confirmed officers are investigating the suggestion there might have been a burglary attempt at Nelly Akomah's address

Daily Mirror

Hounslow mum and two kids found dead in flat killed in 'murder suicide'

Metropolitan Police can confirm the deaths of Monika, Maja and Dawid Wlodarczyk are being treated as murder after their bodies were discovered at a flat near Hounslow, west London

WEKU

Jan. 6 rioter who used a stun gun on Officer Michael Fanone sentenced to prison

Daniel Joseph "DJ" Rodriguez, 40, of Fontana, Calif., was sentenced to 12.5 years. Officer Fanone served on the Metropolitan Police Department Officer for nearly two decades before resigning in 2021.

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