The acting head of the UK’s biggest police force has admitted that cultural problems in the force are “not a few bad apples” and called for a change in procedures to allow managers to speedily sack errant officers. Sir Stephen House, who has temporarily taken over as commissioner of the Metropolitan police, also disclosed that […] […]
A police officer from Barking already behind bars for making inappropriate contact with teenage girls has been dismissed by the Met. Following a special Met case hearing today – April 14 – Pc Adnan Arib was dismissed without notice and will now be placed on the College of Policing Barred List. The former officer is currently in prison, having […] […]
An “abhorrent” former Metropolitan Police officer raped two women while he was working for the force – but will not face any criminal charges. Former sergeant Paul Storey raped and assaulted the two women between 2012 and 2017. The officer resigned from his post in May last year. A Met Police misconduct hearing heard that […] […]
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A serving Essex Police officer has been given a final written warning after he committed gross misconduct by sexually assaulting a female colleague. PC Matthew Henderson was a student officer and drunk and off-duty at the time of the incident in September 2021. A gross misconduct hearing was held at Chelmsford Civic Centre on Monday […] […]
A Met Police officer has been found guilty of assaulting his partner by grabbing her hair and forcing her to the floor in Essex. Former Detective Sergeant Nathaniel Lee carried out the attack while a serving officer. The former sergeant had been based at the Met’s East Area Command Unit, and appeared at Colchester Magistrates’ […] […]
An officer from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) who caused the death of a pedestrian by careless driving has been dismissed without notice following a disciplinary hearing. At an accelerated hearing, organised by the force and chaired by Acting Deputy Commissioner Helen Ball, gross misconduct allegations were found proven against Police Constable Daniel Francis, 33, […] […]
A disgraced Met Police officer has quit the force after being convicted of attacking a taxi driver while off duty in Essex. PC Gareth Head was charged following an investigation by the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) into the incident in Brentwood. The police constable stood trial last year for two counts of racially […] […]
A Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism officer packed two condoms, a bottle of lubricant and pills for erectile disfunction in his bag when he attempted to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex, a court has heard. Francois Olwage, a detective constable who was serving with the Met’s specialist operations unit, is accused of grooming what he believed […] […]
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) breached the rights of organisers of a vigil for Sarah Everard with its handling of the planned event, High Court judges have ruled. Reclaim These Streets (RTS) proposed a socially-distanced vigil for the 33-year-old, who was murdered by former MPS officer Wayne Couzens, near to where she went missing in […] […]
2022 has begun with yet another ridiculous claim from the Metropolitan police that it’s “supporting women’s safety“. There’s been uproar from the public since the Met tweeted a video on 2 January of its Taskforce Officers swabbing people’s hands for evidence of drug usage on the streets of Shoreditch. Embarrassingly for the Met, just one […] […]
The Met Police has once again caused a wave of controversy this week after they Tweeted a video of officers stopping members of the public for a random drug swab. They also carried out full body searches and on-the-spot interviews. “Taskforce officers were out recently doing drug swabs in Shoreditch as part of a wider […] […]
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