All news on the topic: Metropolitan Police

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London shoplifting surges 12% amid £16.7m-a-month retail crime wave
Shoplifting across London has increased by 12 percent in a year, as a new interactive map reveals the scale of a crime wave costing the capital’s retailers £16.7 million a month.
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London mayor increases support for debt hunters as council tax and business rates rise
Sir Sadiq Khan is increasing his funding of debt collectors that track down unpaid council tax and business rates in London.
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Newly released Epstein files reveal detailed emails linking former royal to efforts to arrange meetings through Ghislaine Maxwell
Documents provide additional insight into the former royal’s connections to the sex offender and pose new questions for Donald Trump.
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New Year’s Eve chaos looming as Met Police staff strike threatens delays to emergency callouts
Metropolitan Police staff will go on strike during one of the busiest days of the year, trade union Unite has said.
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UK police decline to investigate claims Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sought to smear Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre
Virginia Giuffre’s family have said they are "deeply disappointed" by the Metropolitan Police’s decision not to investigate reports Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked an officer to help dig up dirt on her.
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Two men charged after Heathrow car park robbery where 21 people were hit with noxious spray
Two men have been charged following a robbery at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 3 car park in which 21 people — including a three-year-old child — were exposed to a noxious substance.
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Reform UK leader accused of failing to declare campaign expenses
Nigel Farage has been reported to police for allegedly breaching electoral law.
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Man dies after broad daylight collision with car in Willesden, London
A man in his 30s has tragically died after he was in collision with a car in broad daylight on a London street.
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Farmers defy police ban and drive tractors into Westminster to protest Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax plan
Police had banned tractors from Whitehall, but farmers angry about Rachel Reeves’s tax changes brought their budget day protest to Westminster anyway.
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Pensioner dies after robbery at north London post office cash machine
A retiree has passed away after being robbed while withdrawing money from an ATM at a post office in north London.
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Former Met Police officer convicted of sexually abusing 12-year-old girl
The former police officer David Carrick, who exhibited predatory behavior, has been found guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner.
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Met Police manager sentenced for harassment after sending fake Ronan Keating messages
A Met Police call centre boss who sent a colleague unwanted gifts and messages purporting to be from Ronan Keating has been spared jail.
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Driver arrested after ‘tasering man trying to stop him leaving hit-and-run scene’
A driver was arrested after allegedly using a taser on a man who was attempting to prevent him from fleeing a hit-and-run scene.
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£10 million seized as UK police clean up high streets
More than 2,700 vape shops, barbers, mini markets, and car washes have been raided in a month, as part of efforts to clean up Britain’s high streets.
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Chinese fraudster behind £5.5bn Bitcoin scam lived in luxury across Europe
A Chinese fraudster involved in a Bitcoin scam exceeding £5.5 billion managed to evade British authorities for years while staying in luxury hotels and sightseeing across Europe, a court has been told.
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Court hears case of police officer who hit pensioner while escorting Duchess of Edinburgh
A police motorcyclist hit and killed a pensioner while driving over the speed limit and through a red light as he escorted the Duchess of Edinburgh through London, a court heard.
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Police arrest Irish driver after Lewisham hit-and-run critically injures pedestrian
A man has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with an alleged hit-and-run in London that has left a 65-year-old pedestrian critically injured.
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Commissioner seeks ’exit route’ for senior staff ’not up for the challenge’ in met overhaul
The Metropolitan Police Federation (MPF) has accused Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley of making a “thinly veiled threat” over jobs after he reportedly launched a voluntary exit pay-off for senior ranks.
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Nearly 100 violent and sex offenders among 262 inmates released in error this year
LBC understands that four more prisoners are still at large after being mistakenly released from jail.
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Met police officer accused of using sex workers while on duty
A former Metropolitan police officer allegedly used sex workers while on duty in the midst of a major investigation into behavioural standards, the Guardian can reveal.
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Manhunt for two prisoners wrongly released from Wandsworth jail, including migrant sex offender
A manhunt continues for two prisoners released by mistake, including a migrant sex offender, as the Justice Secretary faces pressure over the error.
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Second mistaken prisoner release sparks outrage as UK justice system faces scrutiny
Police have launched an urgent search for a second foreign prisoner mistakenly freed, two days after the UK justice secretary, David Lammy, implemented stronger checks for jails.
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Reality star and royal insider Ben Duncan plunges 100ft to death from £1,000-a-night hotel
Big Brother star and reported friend of Prince William, Ben Duncan, has died aged 45.
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US lawmakers push Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to testify over Epstein ties
Pressure is building on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to give evidence before a powerful U.S. Congressional committee about his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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Giuffre family calls it ’justice for Virginia’ after the King stripped Prince Andrew of his royal titles
The family of Virginia Giuffre said she had “brought down a prince” after Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s public life as a royal was effectively ended by the King.