The London firefighter has accepted an invitation to discuss how diversity training could be improved in the Met after telling Channel 4 News that “racism is like a disease” in the force.
One insider describes her as a formidable negotiator with great attention to detail – someone who, perhaps surprisingly, “cares more about the little people than the big ones”.
Police officers in England and Wales are being dismissed for misconduct at the rate of more than one a day.
Tomorrow the Spycops public inquiry will address whether the state has a duty to reveal to all parents if their dead child’s identity was taken and used in the name of undercover policing.
Five children whose mother was shot and crippled by police in 1985 are to receive substantial damages in compensation from the Metropolitan Police, Channel 4 News can reveal.
Grave allegations, basic democratic freedoms undermined, deceitful relationships, profound questions of racial equality – at last the public inquiry into undercover policing is underway.
The public inquiry into undercover policing is being asked to look at whether the Met deceived judges.
The scale of prison violence has emerged from new figures which show riot squads were called into jails on a daily basis last year.
HMIC warn that neighbourhood policing, the foundation block of modern day law enforcement, is under threat.
“..the most serious failings concerned the way in which allegations of torture were managed.” It’s the most critical observation by the borders and immigration chief inspector. For David Bolt’s report into the Home Office’s asylum casework system comes as Theresa May’s department prepares to respond Stephen Shaw’s damning review of the detention of asylum seekers.
Another alarm has gone off in the criminal justice system – a worrying rise in witnesses just not turning up to trial.
A Met Police officer is in a stable condition in hospital after being shot during an armed operation in the Hackney area of east London. A man was arrested at the scene.
The family of Cherry Groce, shot and crippled by a firearms officer in her Brixton home in 1985, is to sue for damages.
Radical preacher Anjem Choudray has been charged with inviting support for the so-called Islamic State group.
A retired police sergeant cleared of racially and sexually abusing a teenager 29 years ago has called on the Metropolitan Police to “stop targeting me and my family”.
