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A Metropolitan police officer accused of grievous bodily harm after a black man was left paralysed from the chest down has been named after losing a bid to keep his name from the public domain. Imran Mahmood, 35, was charged with grievous bodily harm on 31 March and had sought anonymity from Westminster magistrates court […] […]

The Met Police are launching yet another appeal against a High Court ruling which said the Sarah Everard vigil organisers’ rights were breached when they were told the gathering would be illegal under Covid rules. The vigil was cancelled, but hundreds attended anyway to pay their respects to Sarah, who was abducted, raped, and murdered […] […]

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with rape. PC Ireland Murdock is alleged to have carried out the offence on 25 September 2021 in Lambeth, while he was off duty. The officer, who is attached to the Central North Command Unit, was arrested on 11 January 2022. He will appear at Croydon Magistrates’ […] […]

Senior Metropolitan Police officers have been criticised for publicly defending junior colleagues involved in the stop and search of two athletes. Former commissioner Dame Cressida Dick and acting Met boss Sir Stephen House have come under fire for speaking out in the weeks after the controversial stop of GB athlete Bianca Williams and her partner […] […]

Five police officers could face the sack over the stop and search of two athletes who were driving through London with their baby. Watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said on Wednesday that an acting police sergeant and four police constables will all face a gross misconduct disciplinary hearing over the incident involving […] […]

A police officer who appeared on the Nigerian version of Big Brother without permission from her bosses has been given a final written warning. PC Khafilat Kareem was a serving Metropolitan Police officer when she applied to be on the show in 2019. A misconduct hearing ruled PC Kareem should be given the written warning […] […]

I don’t understand the logic behind how the Met Police is conducting its probe into unlawful parties at Downing Street and the Cabinet Office. My confusion reached brain-aching proportions after my colleague Anushka Asthana disclosed on Friday that officials had received fixed penalty notices – fines – for attending perhaps the most famous of all […] […]

A Met Police officer has been dismissed and placed on the barred list after he was found guilty of causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving. PC Daniel Francis was sentenced on February 4 to 12 months imprisonment suspended for two years and 240 hours unpaid work. The gross misconduct summary states: “On November 1, […] […]

hildren between the ages of 10 and 12 have undergone full strip searches by the Metropolitan police, the Evening Standard can reveal. In total nearly 600 under-18s have been subject to strip searches where intimate parts are exposed by officers between 2018 and 2021. The figures have been obtained amid controversy over the case of […] […]

A lawyer representing the victims of Stephen Port has said they remain sceptical about proposed policing reforms to how unexplained deaths are reported. In 2016, Port was jailed at the Old Bailey for life for the murders of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor. In December of last year, an inquest jury […] […]

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 […] […]