The Latest Breaking News from The Metropolitan Police

Will the Casey Review — the result of a 12-month examination of the Metropolitan Police by Baroness Casey — actually change the Met? There are signs that it won’t.

Victim suffered facial burns when jacket set alight in in Edgbaston, Birmingham, as police investigate potential connection with similar incident in London

Further allegations about Boris Johnson’s time in office continue to emerge

David Kennedy, general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, said the way policing is done in Scotland is different to the rest of the UK.

David Kennedy insisted Police Scotland had a ‘vigorous’ way of dealing with any officer who falls foul of behaviour expected of them.

Serena Kennedy statement comes as Baroness Casey’s review of the Metropolitan Police found the force was institutionally racist, misogynistic, homophobic and sexist

The report describes Britain’s largest police force as institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.

Specialist sexual assault units would be set up in every police force and domestic violence experts put in all 999 call centres under Labour proposals announced on Tuesday.

Home secretary previously accused police of ‘spending too much time on symbolic gestures’ on diversity

The chief executive of Refuge said there still appears to be a denial from the Metropolitan Police despite the findings of a damning report.

Policing by consent — the Peelian principle of earning and maintaining the respect and approval of the public — lies at the cornerstone of British law enforcement. It is admired and copied around the world. But the Metropolitan Police has, according to an excoriating report by Louise Casey, lost it.