All news on the topic: Metropolitan Police

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Keir Starmer says ban on caning kids shows violence against women can be stopped
The Labour leader made a speech unveiling the party's plans to tackle crime. Policing has come under intense scrutiny this week following a damning report that found homophobic, racist and sexist culture within the Metropolitan Police
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Horror moment out-of-control dog attacks police horse as onlookers rush to help
Footage captured the terrifying moment an out-of-control dog attacked a police horse in Victoria Park as the owner has since claimed the American Bully is "so friendly" and was "intimidated" by the horse
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Men 'castrated on live stream with genitals cut off as paying audience watched'
Marius Gustavson is alleged to have been the ringleader in a wide-ranging conspiracy, involving up to 29 offences of extreme body modifications, the removal of body parts, the trade in body parts and the uploading of video
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'Response from Met chief to Casey report shows that nothing is going to change'
The 363-page document made for sickening reading. What took my breath away was the casual, everyday behaviour considered normal
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Police arrest same man over two separate fire attacks on victims near mosques
A man suffered facial burns after his jacket was set alight as he walked home from a mosque in Birmingham on Monday, just weeks after an 82-year-old was set on fire after leaving a mosque in London
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Terror cops probe links between fire attacks on victims in Birmingham and London
West Midlands Police said it is aware of a similar incident in the Ealing area of London and is working with the Metropolitan Police to see whether the incidents are linked
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Prince Harry's brutal Meghan Markle plot claims laid bare to brother William
Prince Harry and brother Prince William had an intimate conversation where the younger royal laid out accusations of people "plotting" against Meghan Markle
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Six shocking findings from bombshell Met Police review on 'broken' force
The Metropolitan Police has failed to protect the public from officers who abuse women, organisational changes have put women and children at greater risk and female officers and staff routinely experience sexism, Baroness Louise Casey’s report said
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'Met Report shows terrible discrimination - disregarding ableism is no surprise'
Report found that 33 per cent of staff with a disability or long-term illness have experienced bullying. Disability was also the most recurring tribunal claim brought against the Met in recent years
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'This damning verdict is a devastating wake-up call for the Metropolitan Police'
Trouble is, we’ve been here before - with the Scarman Report in 1981 and the 1999 MacPherson inquiry which famously found the Met to be institutionally racist
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Murdered mum's family say she may still be alive if police took report seriously
Mum-of-three Mihrican 'Jan' Mustafa, 38, had been missing for nearly a year when her remains were found at a convicted sex offender's property, which police had knocked on months beforehand
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Suella Braverman refuses to accept Met is institutionally racist despite report
Baroness Louise Casey’s explicitly wrote in her bombshell report that she makes 'a finding of institutional racism, sexism and homophobia in the Met'. But the Home Secretary refused to accept the term
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Ex-Met chief demands Commissioner resigns over 'institutional racism' denial
A former Met Police Superintendent suing the force over ‘racist and sexist abuse’ is calling for the Commissioner to resign following his refusal to use the term institutional racism despite damning Casey report
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Do you think the Met Police should be disbanded? Vote in our poll
Baroness Louise Casey says the Metropolitan Police should be abolished if it does not change its “rotten” culture - but what do YOU think? Vote in our poll
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'I was raped but the Met told me not to call unless my limbs were being broken'
Tashmia Owen was raped in Charlton, South East London, in 2020 and reported her attack - but she says looking back she wouldn't encourage other victims to do so
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Female Met officer 'sexually mocked eating banana' and saw revenge porn shared
Former Met Police officer Alice Vinten claims she experienced sexism throughout her 11-year career and even saw male colleagues sharing revenge porn of their girlfriends
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Inside Met Police's 'boys club culture' as force branded institutionally sexist
WARNING - CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE: Baroness Louis Casey has today revealed a damning report that highlights 'institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia in the Met Police' - the testimony of a number of female officers has laid bare the grim culture in the force
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Black communities are 'over-policed and under-protected' by 'racist' Met Police
The Met Police isn't doing enough to protect Black communities and people of colour, who are far more likely to fall victim to violence and at least twice as likely to be killed by another person, according to The Casey Review
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Female Met Police officer 'forcibly undressed' by male officer in patrol car
The bombshell Baroness Casey Review into the Met Police found it was institutionally racist, sexist, and homophobic as it revealed a number of horrific stories of abuse from inside the force
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Met Police is institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynistic, report finds
A damning report into the Metropolitan Police commissioned after Sarah Everard's murder has concluded that Britain's largest force is "broken" and should be abolished if it can't change
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'Casey report devastating wake-up call for racist Met - now will they listen?'
A review by Baroness Louise Casey found the Met Police is institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynistic - just like Black and Brown people have been saying for decades, writes Darren Lewis
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Feminist group plasters streets with posters mocking Met Police after report
The Women's Equality Party have today launched a national campaign called 'See it. Say it. Ignore it.' with posters depicting Met officers laughing as a woman is attacked
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'Met Police must radically reform or be abolished after damning Casey report'
With public confidence plummeting after a string of horrendous scandals, Baroness Louise Casey’s report into Britain's biggest police force must not be put on a shelf to gather dust
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Top barrister in chemsex death case admits buying drugs from some of his clients
Lawyer Henry Hendron, 42, whose 18-year-old boyfriend was found dead at his flat in 2015, pleads guilty to possessing Class A drugs and encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence
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Woman dead after 'conning banker boyfriend out of £4m' was no call girl, says ex
Wojtek Zalinska has defended his ex-wife Magdalena Zalinska, who was accused of being a call girl who conned her late banker lover Danny Truell out of millions before being found dead