About 160 Metropolitan Police officers have been accused of sexual misconduct in the past two years, an investigation has found. Freedom of Information requests carried out by My London show the police officers had been accused of sexual assault, sexual harassment and other forms of sexual misconduct in 2019 and 2020. An additional 33 officers […] […]
In early May, the “Women’s Chronicles” column in Stabroek News did a piece on sexual harassment within the police force. The scope of the problem was described as being an “epidemic.” This was a very fair and unsurprising assessment. While they religiously repeat the mantra of service and protection, the public at large, is very […] […]
A British Transport Police (BTP) representative told an inquiry that his organisation failed to share vital information with other emergency services following the Manchester Arena attack on 22 May 2017, which killed 22 people and injured hundreds more. Assistant Chief Constable Sean O’Callaghan agreed with Paul Greaney, the counsel to the inquiry, that there had […] […]
A police ombudsman (PONI) report highlighting “significant investigative failures” around a sectarian murder 1993 contains a “catalogue of innuendo,” a former senior officer has claimed. Ombudsman Marie Anderson said the security forces response to the UFF/UDA murder of Damien Walsh, 17, in west Belfast was hampered by “collusive behaviours”. Among a number of serious allegations, […] […]
An officer from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) who lied about losing a set of handcuffs that were stolen by a suspect has been dismissed without notice. Police Constable Robert Powell was on duty with the MPS’s South East Command Unit in Bexleyheath on December 31, 2019, when officers stopped a vehicle and detained a […] […]
The chair of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel says the Metropolitan Police’s immediate denial of systemic issues of corruption in the force demonstrates the very problem its report into a 34-year-old unsolved murder highlighted The Metropolitan Police’s response to the Daniel Morgan murder report is an example of the “institutional corruption” at the force that […] […]
Report comes after year of crises including the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer Police must be tougher in vetting new officers to stop another Wayne Couzens joining the service, the chief police watchdog has said. Sir Tom Winsor, the chief inspector of constabulary, spoke after a year in which […] […]
The Met Police has been accused of a “betrayal of the public” in its statements over the unsolved murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan. The force was accused of institutional corruption by an independent panel over the death of the father-of-two, who was murdered with an axe in a pub car park. Five separate investigations […] […]
any crime victims, including women who have been raped, think it is “too much hassle” to report offences committed against them, the Justice Secretary warned on Tuesday as he vowed to overhaul a failing system. Robert Buckland said it involved a “bewildering” process to report a crime and see it through to conviction and that […] […]
Confidence in the judicial process is “at a particularly low point”, the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales has warned. Dame Vera Baird QC said a combination of issues – such delays in cases getting to court, dire conviction rates for offences including rape, and concerns over the way police have investigated certain high-profile cases […] […]
A trainee police officer wrecked his Metropolitan Police career before it had even started when he was caught speeding at 122mph on his final day at training college. PC Maurice Maison was late for a study session before his last exam to become a police officer when he was pulled over at Junction 2 of […] […]
The chief constable at the time of the Manchester Arena bombing has denied trying to mislead an independent review into the emergency response six months later. The public inquiry into the May 2017 attack has heard of significant multi-agency communication failures as fire crews took more than two hours to arrive and only three paramedics […] […]
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