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Rape victims in Britain are badly served, Boris Johnson has admitted, as he promised to “stop at nothing to make sure we get more rapists behind bars” and to overhaul the policing of sexual violence after Sarah Everard’s murder. The prime minister said the rape and murder of Everard by a serving police officer had […] […]

A Norfolk police officer could lose his job over claims he falsely claimed overtime payments worth just £390. PC Andrew Goff denies allegations that on six occasions between September 2020 and January 2021 he submitted false overtime claims. He also faces allegations that his conduct breached the standards of honesty and integrity expected of a […] […]

BORIS JOHNSON has rejected calls for a public inquiry into police failings on sexual violence following the sentencing of Sarah Everard’s killer. After Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti called for a Stephen Lawrence-style inquiry into a police culture of misogyny and violence against women, the Prime Minister told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show today that other […] […]

It has taken the death of a white woman for the issue of trust in policing to be addressed, a former chief constable has said. Sue Fish, the ex-chief of Nottinghamshire Police, also said every woman she knows would have got into the car with the Metropolitan Police firearms officer who used his warrant card […] […]

More than half of police officers who faced criminal investigations were convicted, annual figures show. There were 152 criminal probes into police in the year to March 2020, according to the latest available Home Office data for England and Wales. Of these, 115 investigated officers and 37 looked into staff, compared to 119 and 17 […] […]

To all UK Police This is what happens when you protect your colleagues, time to stop abusing your power and do your fucking job. When […]

Too many fraud victims still receive a “poor service” from police and are being denied justice, according to a watchdog. People are more likely to be a victim of fraud than any other crime and the problem has become worse during the coronavirus pandemic, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) […] […]

The police in Britain have failed to reflect the diversity of the community they serve and have failed on Sir Robert Peel’s founding description of policing, which was, “the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention […] […]

Failings have led to ‘unjustified inequalities’, says landmark report that finds little progress in 22 years since Macpherson Police and governments have done too little to stamp out racial injustice in the ranks, with the failings being systemic and leading to “unjustified inequalities”, a report by an all-party committee of MPs has found. The report […] […]

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has dismissed as a “ridiculous gimmick” a pledge by the Prime Minister to provide victims of crime with a named officer to call about their case. Boris Johnson is expected to unveil his new “beating crime plan” on Tuesday after leaving quarantine at his Chequers country retreat following a coronavirus […] […]

Stop and search powers for police are set to be permanently enhanced under Boris Johnson’s new strategy to tackle crime. The Prime Minister will use his first day after leaving self-isolation following a positive coronavirus contact to detail his new Beating Crime Plan, much of which was trailed in the media over the weekend. It […] […]

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 […] […]