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LONDON: Dame Cressida Dick will continue to lead the Metropolitan Police Service until 2024, the Home Secretary Priti Patel has confirmed.A two-year extension to Dame Cressida’s current...
Boris tries to shift focus to crime after Patel rebuke July 26, 2021 LONDON: Boris Johnson will seek to shift the focus on tackling crime when he re-emerges from isolation to counter criticism over the “pandemic” and police anger at Home Secretary Priti Patel. The Prime Minister is expected to unveil his new “beating crime plan” tomorrow (Tuesday) after leaving quarantine at his Chequers country retreat following a coronavirus contact. As he began his third year in No 10, Johnson vowed to ensure that every victim of crime has “a named officer to call – someone who is immediately...
Crisis after crisis: what is going wrong at the Met police? Mark Townsend © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/AP Beaming broadly as she faced the Prince of Wales in a gilded chamber at St James’s Palace, Cressida Dick was about to achieve another career high. A police officer of 38 years, she appeared exhilarated last Wednesday when receiving a damehood in recognition of her public service. But storm clouds routinely follow the chief of Scotland Yard, and for Dick, more than most. Several hours later, at 4.09pm, her force was pressured into releasing ...
UNDER FIRE Dozens of armed police and officers in riot gear pelted with missiles by mob after man shot and stabbed in Brixton Updated: 3 Jun 2021, 9:48 DOZENS of armed cops and officers in riot gear were last night pelted with missiles by a raging mob after being called to reports a man had been shot and stabbed in Brixton. Videos posted online showed a large police presence in South London after the emergency services arrived at the scene at 9.35pm. 14 14 Officers were pelted with missles at the scene in Brixton, South London, last nightCredit: UkNewsinPictures A man in his mid-20s was fou...
A Met policewoman who was filmed shouting ‘free Palestine’ and hugging protesters at a rally was today condemned by a senior police federation official who said he feared officers had lost their impartiality when they began taking the knee during Black Lives Matter protests last year. The unnamed officer was also recorded endorsing the protest outside the Israeli embassy - shortly before it turned violent and her police colleagues came under attack. Today Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation said: ‘I don’t understand why she did it because it was definitely someth...