All news on the topic: Metropolitan Police

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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
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Woman still in critical condition three months after Brixton crowd crush tragedy
A 21-year-old woman is still in a critical condition three months after a crush at The O2 Academy Brixton which left two people dead
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Woman who 'conned banker boyfriend out of £4million' is found dead
Magdalena Zalinska was at the centre of a High Court battle with Danny Truell's family after they claimed she obtained the millions by 'undue influence'
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Met Police in last chance saloon and rife with racism, damning new report finds
Baroness Louise Casey was tasked with leading an independent reviews into the Met Police following the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard and its contents are said to be "atrocious"
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Can Facebook really still be advertising investment scams? You Meta believe it
Savers at risk because social media giant fails to tackle the running sore of frauds on its platform
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Four boys rip out 14-year-old schoolgirl's hair as teachers called 'negligent'
A Hendon schoolgirl says she was attacked by a group of boys who had sent her racist threats in the past, while her older sister claims school staff failed to take care of the 14-year-old
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Police officer drops off couple’s takeaway after pulling over delivery driver
Jamie George and Nicole Dixon still got their buffalo wings despite their delivery driver being pulled over by a Met Police officer for going through a red light in Welling, south London
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Man who sent racist messages to Ivan Toney handed landmark punishment
Antonio Neill sent the racist message to the Brentford striker in October 2022, and has now been handed a four-month suspended prison sentence plus a landmark three-year banning order
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Gary Glitter thrown back in jail after ‘using smartphone to ask about Dark Web’
Footage of the convicted paedophile filmed by a fellow lag at Gary Glitter's bail hostel in the South of England, the 78-year-old quizzes an unknown person about search engines
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Car mounts pavement amid fight, putting two in hospital with four arrested
Police were called to the scene of the incident in Wembley, North West London, around 1.30am, after reports of a fight and road collision