“Britain’s national intelligence and law-enforcement agency is being investigated by the police watchdog over concerns that it could have done more to prevent the gangland killing of a shopkeeper in an organised crime hotspot.”
The Guardian, 15th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A claim of racial discrimination and unfair dismissal by a police community support officer has been thrown out at an employment tribunal.”
BBC News, 10th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police officers are under investigation after a suspected drug dealer died minutes after being gripped by the throat as he was being searched. The Times has learnt that only weeks earlier the same man twice told hospital staff that he had been assaulted by police.”
The Times, 10th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A Metropolitan Police officer who had sex with a vulnerable woman while supposedly checking on her welfare has avoided going to jail.”
BBC News, 8th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Denis O’Connor, said senior officers were too focused on dealing with disorder, and not enough on allowing peaceful protest.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An official inquiry into the way the G20 demonstrations were policed is expected to call for urgent reform today, amid concerns that police are failing in their duty to facilitate lawful protest. ”
The Guardian, 7th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police officer being investigated for an assault on Ian Tomlinson before he died had a chequered history which should have barred him from the force, it has emerged.”
The Observer, 5th July 2007
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk
“A black family wrongly prosecuted for assault after the father was falsely accused of drug dealing by police outside a London theatre has won “substantial” damages and an apology from Scotland Yard, four years after the case collapsed.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Copies of a book by Scotland Yard’s former anti-terrorism chief were hastily removed from bookstore shelves yesterday after the Attorney-General obtained a last-minute injunction.”
The Times, 3rd July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Scotland Yard has failed to carry out a series of changes it was ordered to make after disastrous blunders led its officers to kill Jean Charles de Menezes, according to an official report.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A speeding motorcyclist has been jailed after a traffic policeman used Google to expose his false claims that an American woman had been riding his bike at the time.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Inexperienced and inadequately trained police officers were pitched into the middle of the ‘highly combustible’ G20 protests in London, according to a highly critical report published today.”
The Times, 29th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The report on the controversial death of the anti-racist campaigner Blair Peach should finally be published more than 30 years after he died in a demonstration in west London. The commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, agreed today that it should be made public after an unanimous call to do so by the Metropolitan Police Authority.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A secret report into the suspected police killing of an anti-racism campaigner 30 years ago must be published, Sir Paul Stephenson said today.”
The Independent, 25th June 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Data about the criminal convictions of one million people could be deleted from police computers, the Court of Appeal has been told.”
BBC News, 22nd June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two female protesters who challenged police officers for not displaying their badge numbers were bundled to the ground, arrested and held in prison for four days, according to an official complaint lodged today.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“No further action will be taken against a policeman who was unmasked after targeting the force and Government ministers in an anonymous online blog, police said today.”
The Independent, 17th June 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Police have been forced to apologise to a family and change domestic abuse policies after the murder of a 75-year-old woman.”
BBC News, 16th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A chief constable was criticised by three judges today for defying a high court order to return computer hard drives containing evidence of suspected child abuse to an expert witness.”
The Guardian, 16th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Anonymous bloggers cannot use the courts to keep their identity secret after The Times won a landmark High Court ruling over a policeman who revealed confidential information on an award-winning website.”
The Times, 16th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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