‘The Metropolitan police are to stop investigating many lower level crimes as a result of spending cuts, a senior police officer has said.’
The Guardian, 16th October 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Victims of grooming gangs should be pardoned for crimes they committed under the direction of their abuser, Britain’s leading child protection police officer has said.’
The Guardian, 8th October 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘”Significant failures” by Staffordshire Police over a gangland killing led to the unsafe convictions of five men, a police watchdog report has found.’
BBC News, 4th October 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police forces are not doing enough to stop their officers carrying out sexual abuse, the official watchdog has said. The finding by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) comes despite previous interventions from the watchdog and high-profile cases of police officers committing sexual abuse.’
The Guardian, 5th October 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An MP is to try to introduce a law to create a register of those convicted of domestic violence and make police warn new partners of a repeated offender’s violent past.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st October 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A blind burglar has been jailed for his 192nd offence after leading police on a chase from school raid into a river.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st October 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The international director of the campaign organisation Cage has been convicted of a terrorist offence after refusing to hand over passwords to his mobile phone and laptop.’
The Guardian, 25th September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Police chase laws are to be reviewed by the Government amid fears that officers are unable to effectively pursue and apprehend moped-riding criminals.’
Daily Telegraph, 25th September 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The number of police officers and staff in London subjected to racist or religious hate crime has risen by more than 50% in two years, official figures show.’
The Guardian, 22nd September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Metropolitan police have been criticised by the family of Rashan Charles for ignoring the advice of the police watchdog and refusing to suspend the officer involved in his death.’
The Guardian, 20th September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, and HM Inspectorate of Probation have published a report examining the multi-agency response to children living with domestic abuse, along with inspections of local area services.’
Family Law, 20th September 2017
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Police missed a string of opportunities to help a young man with mental health problems who died after he was restrained by officers, locked up in a van on a hot night and then left naked in a cell, a watchdog has said.’
The Guardian, 21st September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Police have admitted they may have to work with “paedophile hunters” after research revealed a rise in their evidence being used in court. Figures obtained by the BBC show 11% of court cases in 2014 for the crime of meeting a child following sexual grooming used vigilante evidence, rising to 44% in 2016.’
BBC News, 18th September 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘In February 2017, there was something of a falling out between the police and the IPCC regarding post-incident procedures when police firearms are deployed. Reasonable arguments were made on all sides, robustly and publicly.’
UK Police Law Blog, 15th September 2017
Source: ukpolicelawblog.com
‘An official watchdog has issued a fresh warning over the police’s use of more than 20m facial images on their searchable databases, more than five years after the courts ruled that the inclusion of images of innocent people was unlawful.’
The Guardian, 13th September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The police officer who initially restrained a man whose death sparked violent street protests is being investigated for gross misconduct, the police watchdog has said.’
Daily Telegraph, 13th September 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Publication of misconduct investigation reports can give rise to difficult and important questions, particularly in cases where there has been no misconduct hearing because there has been a determination of “no case to answer”, or because the accused officer has resigned or retired.’
UK Police Law Blog, 11th September 2017
Source: ukpolicelawblog.com
‘Seven out of 14 police forces have been dubbed “inadequate” for failing to record hundreds of thousands of crimes reported to them.’
BBC News, 12th September 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The controversial police investigation into allegations that Sir Edward Heath was a paedophile will be considered by the London-based child sexual abuse inquiry.’
The Guardian, 10th September 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
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