All news on the topic: Police

Two of PC Andrew Harper’s killers could be set for an early release from jail under Labour plans to tackle prison overcrowding, with his furious mother branding it an “insult beyond words”.

Police have clashed with demonstrators during a protest in the Italian city of Bologna after a Moroccan-born man died pleading for help under police restraint.

A woman protesting that a man should have been charged with killing a pigeon recorded a police officer admitting that she illegally stops and searches black women.

Clashes broke out between football fans and police in Buenos Aires late on Sunday after Argentina’s 1-0 extra-time defeat to Spain in the 2026 Fifa World Cup final.

Disgraced West Midlands Police chief Craig Guildford was handed almost £58,000 in leaving pay after retiring in the wake of the Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal.

Gardaí have arrested one man after around €122,400 worth of cocaine and cannabis was seized by authorities.

A brother of Ecuador’s most notorious drug lord was killed on Sunday by gunmen who had disguised themselves as police officers.

A man believed to be carrying a crossbow has been shot by police in south Wales.

A loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland featuring an effigy of a mosque has been condemned as an incitement to hatred.

Detective Inspector Emma Gardner, 46, was convicted after a jury found she had unlawfully accessed police computer systems without a policing purpose.

A crafty thief posing as a shopper swallowed a £35,000 ring at a jeweller’s in a bid to steal it, bosses say.

A woman charged with murdering her four-year-old son walked into a police station and allegedly told cops she had cooked and eaten parts of him.

A police staff member has admitted misconduct in public office by accessing confidential material and leaking it to third parties.

Two male Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers have been sacked following separate incidents in which they touched the buttocks of female colleagues.

Henry Nowak, 18, told officers he could not breathe and that he had been stabbed after being attacked in Southampton last December.

A young footballer has told of the terrifying moment she was spiked with a date-rape drug in a Magaluf nightclub.

A mysterious vigilante in Mexico is stopping ‘bike thieves’ in a rather unusual way after a spike in crime.

Police are appealing for information after a cyclist was seriously injured in a hit-and-run in East Lothian.

Notorious double rapist Simon McGinley is due to be sentenced later this year after admitting three breaches of the Sex Offenders Act, which he claimed were committed after media coverage of his release from prison last year led to threats from local residents.

Police officers took eight minutes to find the stab wound that killed Henry Nowak after they had arrested the dying teenager, newly disclosed evidence reveals.

A 66-year-old man says he no longer feels safe in Liverpool city centre and is considering moving away after a brutal late-night attack shattered his confidence.

A healthcare executive and her husband have avoided prosecution after agreeing to fines, community service, and a total ban from the Florida county where their six-month-old baby was found left alone on a beach.

Cops have discovered the body of a female just 500 yards from the home of a missing 14-year-old girl who vanished from the town centre.

The carers of a man suspected of throwing a child into a crocodile enclosure were ‘on their phone’ earlier in the day, according to a report.