Thinking of a career change? Considering the Metropolitan Police? But of course, their persistent advertising around town in the past year’s been working on your subconscious, convincing you it’s the right step. Hold up, however, as unless you’re going for the Special and voluntary route, …
Knitted policeman by Heather Brown / M@ Brown Despite getting the law changed to allow himself to chair the Metropolitan Police Authority, Boris Johnson has today decided he doesn’t have the time to do it (he could always give up his Telegraph column if he’s …
Photo / Mario Mitsis Police have released an image which they say illustrates how two officers prevented a terror attack in London. The CCTV image shows uniformed officers spotting a man filming crowd scenes on his mobile phone at Liverpool Street station last year. When …
Knitted policeman by Heather Brown / M@ Brown The Conservative plan to put US-style elected police commissioners in charge of forces across the country got a little clearer today, as shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said he’d scrap the Metropolitan Police Authority and put the …
The MPA are threatening to disband the Met’s specialist human trafficking unit, handing over its remit to ‘Vice and Clubs’ comprising Met officers without specific knowledge or training in the third largest international crime after arm and drugs trading. Labour MEP Mary Honeyball is presenting …
Photo by Herschell Hershey from the Londonist Flickr pool The number of ‘shooting incidents’ in London has almost doubled over the past year. The number of people actually being shot over the last six months has increased to 236, as opposed to 123 in the …
Image / DeadMansPit Less floodlights, more Footlights: cops in charge of investigating the violence during West Ham and Millwall’s Cup match in September have admitted that images released this week of the suspects included actors from new hooligan-themed film The Firm. It happened after police …
After the MPA’s meeting yesterday the Met Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has come out apologising saying that someone used the “wrong language” in a TV interview about the apparent change in tactics increasing armed patrols on problem estates. The doubling of armed patrols is in …
Image by PhotoGrafia O’ Valciño from the Londonist Flickr Pool The MPA’s Civil Liberties Panel is holding an open meeting to discuss April’s G20 demonstrations. They’re looking for first hand accounts from people who were there, grouped into three broad topics: – pre-event planning – …
.DOYLE. On Friday we reported that the Met was doubling its armed police presence on certain gun and gang crime hotspots north and south of the river. Today, the ES reports that Scotland Yard is apparently in ‘disarray‘ over the plans, having been accused by …
Unscary armed police via jo’nas’ Flickrstream under a CC licence Gang warfare and gun crime are getting so bad in parts of south London and patches of Turkish north London the Met are ramping up the presence of armed police. In June, a team of …
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