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Alleged Rape by a serving police officer This story is of a female, Joanna (not her real name), who was the victim of historical child […]

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with sexual assault. PC Chris Lee, who is attached to the Central West Command Unit, is said to have carried out the alleged offence in November 2021 while off duty. Scotland Yard also said  Lee, is due to appear at London’s  Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. The […] […]

A Met Police officer visited a sex worker to use her ‘services’, hit her in the face and then fled her home during an excursion that breached lockdown rules. Former PC Hassan Mahmood went to a sex worker’s home on January 12, 2021 while Covid restrictions were in place. The former officer, who was serving […] […]

A former Met Police officer, found guilty of misconduct during pandemic restrictions, has been barred from returning to any policing role. Hassan Mahmood visited a woman in her house in Mitcham in south London in January 2021 and paid her for sex. He was fined £660 at the City of London Magistrates’ Court earlier after […] […]

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 […] […]