UK police
18 Dec
UK police underestimated "the rising tide of violence" that culminated in anti-immigration riots earlier this year and failed to mitigate against online misinformation which helped fuel it, a watchdog report said Wednesday.
22 Nov
UK police said Friday officers had carried out a controlled explosion after a suspicious package which turned out to be a "hoax device" was found outside the United States embassy in London. The capital's Metropolitan Police force conducted the explosion after setting up cordons near the high-security site in Nine Elms, just south of the…
13 Sep
A Metropolitan Police officer is under investigation after a video surfaced showing him allegedly advising a group of Nigerian women not to report their husbands to the police in cases of domestic abuse but to “manage it.” The footage, originally filmed in 2018 at Divine Restoration International Church in Camberwell, London, recently reappeared on social…
12 Sep
The UK’s police and crime minister Dame Diana Johnson had her purse stolen at an annual conference for senior police officers on Tuesday. Johnson gave a speech to the Police Superintendents’ Association conference in which she warned of an “epidemic of antisocial behaviour, theft and shoplifting” that the Labour government had inherited from the Conservatives.…
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