All news on the topic: Metropolitan Police

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Woman's home infested by maggots as she lived below dead neighbour for two years
Sheila Seleoane's neighbours continually raised the alarm with housing association Peabody due to a bad odour and other indicators before her remains were found after two-and-a-half years
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Man who lost partner and home in Salisbury poisonings plans to sue Russia
Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after she was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok left in a perfume bottle in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018
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Strip rapist killer Wayne Couzens of £4,000-a-year police pension, mayor urges
Before joining the Met Police, Wayne Couzens was an officer at the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) for seven and a half years. His service makes him eligible for a pension of up to £4,000 a year
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Four cops injured as youths run riot in shopping mall with 5 arrests
Footage shows cops running towards a group of teenagers in the South East London shopping centre, while another clip shows two girls fighting inside a clothing shop as screams ring out
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Met Police host Iftar for Muslims after scathing report slams racism in force
The Met Police host Iftar for Muslims just days after damning report found force institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic
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Met Police blocks social media on officers' phones and adds new Whatsapp rules
TikTok has been banned from Metropolitan Police staff phones as part of a major smartphone rollout across the force, which also sees other social media apps blocked
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Hunt for prisoner convicted of assault after he was released by mistake
Rayon Newby, 20, was being held at HMP Thameside in Greenwich and was serving a sentence for assault, harassment and burglary offences
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Menacing Tube 'serial killer' suspected of pushing 30 people in front of trains
Kieran Kelly, who died in 2001, is thought to have been responsible for more than 29 deaths around London in the 1970s after witnessing a suspicious number of "suicides"
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Firefighters told female colleague they'd 'rape her' before acting out attack
Inspectors uncovered evidence of bullying, harassment and discrimination in fire brigades including a senior officer referring to a black colleague using the "n-word" and putting it down to "having a laugh"
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Met Police officer may face charges after unarmed Chris Kaba shot dead
Chris Kaba, 24, was shot in the head on September 5 after police followed the vehicle he was driving with no lights or sirens for 15 minutes before he turned into a residential street
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Woman working on her car cheats death after motorist crashes into her on street
The victim had the bonnet up on her silver hatchback as she worked on it outside her home in north London when she was suddenly thrown into the air
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The Met Police SHOULD be disbanded, say hundreds of Mirror readers
Baroness Louise Casey says the Metropolitan Police should be abolished if it does not change its “rotten” culture - but what did Mirror readers think?
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Gang filmed 'celebrating in street' after 'rival was gunned down in the street'
Sharmake Mohamud was shot dead while walking along Green Lanes in Haringey, north London, in September 2021 and police don't know if he was the intended target
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Urgent warning as dogs fall ill and die hours after being walked in UK park
Two dogs are believed to have died after visiting Millers Park in South London, which has been closed as officers collect soil and pond samples to determine the cause of the mysterious illness
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One in four children in youth prisons and secure sites are Black, report shows
The damning findings, from the Children’s Commissioner, looked into the children aged 10 to 18 in youth custody in England and Wales as of December 2022
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Billionaire's son accused of raping and killing student confesses for first time
Farouk Abdulhak claims it was a 'sex accident gone wrong' in the violent death of Martine Magnussen, who was killed in London 14 years ago and found under rubble in a basement
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'Labour’s Scottish leader and Keir Starmer real winners of Sturgeon’s step-down'
Humza Yousaf is set to be Scotland’s first Muslim First Minister is a landmark moment - but a bitter battle for leadership has exposed damaging cracks in the SNP
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Madeleine McCann investigation set to get 'hundreds of thousands of pounds'
A new request for funding on the Madeleine McCann case totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds is set to be approved by the Home Office, according to new reports
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Tourist 'nearly killed by muggers in London' returns home 4 years later
Ben Finlan, who was reportedly attacked outside a bar in central London in 2018, has finally returned home to Canada after suffering multiple skull fractures and undergoing 65 surgeries
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Paedophile police officer who groomed girl, 14, into having sex with him jailed
Disgraced PC Hussain Chehab was jailed for five years after grooming a teenager into having sex with him and searching for explicit images of kids as young as two whilst working at a school
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Vanessa Feltz's ex denies being a serial cheater and begs for star's forgiveness
Vanessa Feltz and Ben Ofoedu split after 17 years. There were rumours that Ben had been cheating on the presenter, but he claims
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Police carried out 2,800 strip searches on children as young as 8 in four years
A harrowing report by Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, found black children are six times more likely to be strip searched. The youngest child strip searched between 2018 and mid-2022 was just eight
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Extent of rot in Met Police is what's shocks, and fixing it will take brains
Former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett says the force must "systematically rid the service of the corrosive individuals who are not just “bad-apples”, but something far more insidious"
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Katie Price says cops' alleged trolling over Harvey 'took her breath away'
Katie Price has spoken out after eight policemen face a gross misconduct inquiry after being accused of using a ­WhatsApp group to exchange jibes about Harvey, who has severe disabilities
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'Too many people don't feel safe on our streets after 13 years of Tory rule'
Writing exclusively for The Mirror, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says that too few crimes are investigated or solved, while serious violence has gone up and confidence in police has fallen