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The answer appears to be “no”, at least judging by the number of skirmishes and injuries that the emergency services had to deal with during London’s New Year’s Eve fun. Between midnight and 4am on the 1st January, 1,761 calls were taken by the ambulance …

It went ahead but our worst fears weren’t realised; he wasn’t allowed into Stockwell tube station or onto the platform, thankfully. With cooperation from the police, Mark McGowan managed to stage his reenactment of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell tube on …

Though we never knew you at all. As Sir Ian Blair ‘enjoys’ his last day as Met police commissioner, we feel we should take a look back at his time as London’s top cop. He was only in office for less than four years but …

Eye witnesses have reported how the Romford man shot dead by police last night was apparently wandering the streets following a domestic dispute, brandishing guns, shooting at “cats and birds” and telling people to ‘get down on the floor’. Another witness described how he was …

We lay the blame for this squarely at the suede Timb’d feet of rapper Xzibit – after all, it was his (admittedly enjoyable) television show that spawned the use of “pimp” as an adjective to describe gaudy accoutrements for anything from a Fiat Punto to …

76. A Gaggle Of Ghosts: Part Six “There can be no doubt of the phenomena. I have seen them, myself” so said the Rev. A.L. Gardiner in 1921 as London was hit by a mysterious mini-plague pertaining to the exploding of coal from grates. Ordinary, …

We’re taking it as a compliment and indication of this here site’s influence and esteemed readership that the Metropolitan Police Authority are emailing us asking for help in publicising their consultation on future policing priorities. They want to know what Londoners think the police should …

Following the furore over widespread lackadaisical record-keeping for on duty expenses within the Met police force, a detective has been jailed for 10 months for impressively audacious abuses of the company credit card. Detective Sergeant Richard de Cadenet’s level of spending suggests he wasn’t entirely …

In a bid to tackle Britain’s knife crime problem, a pilot scheme under which the number of forms filled in by police for ‘stop and account’ is cut by 80% will be extended to cover 10 notorious knife crime zones, including London. Home Secretary Jacqui …

Foreign visitors may be bemused by our relatively toothless bobbies with their funny hats and ineffectual truncheons, but the truth is they can’t always be trusted when packing heat. A female officer has been removed from operational duty after she left her firearm in an …