A former Metropolitan police sergeant has gone on trial for allegedly racially and sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy in the back of a police van 29 years ago.
A judge-led inquiry is to spend the next three years investigating how undercover policing has been used and abused. Victims of malpractice are calling for it to name and shame those involved.
Police will have to be taken off the streets unless there are more resources to cope with an “overwhelming” rise in reported cases of rape, the UK’s most senior police officer warns.
As a fluke helps convict a PC of assault during the 2010 tuition fees protest, student William Horner, who broke a tooth during the demo, tells Channel 4 News it could be “the tip of an iceberg”.
PC Andrew Ott, who hit student William Horner with his riot shield, was recorded saying after the incident “he’s going to have to have done something, coz I’ve put his tooth out”.
EXCLUSIVE: former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Stevens is being investigated over allegations of a cover-up of police corruption in the Stephen Lawrence murder probe in the 1990s.
Home Secretary Theresa May establishes a judge-led inquiry into past and present undercover policing in England and Wales, with powers to compel witnesses to give evidence.
A radicalised teenage son of Jehovah Witnesses is found guilty of planning to behead a young British soldier.
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Files relating to three judge-led inquiries, including the police shooting of Mark Duggan, have gone missing in the post, the Ministry of Justice says.
Cathy Newman
For years, the British police have had a problem with rape. Investigations falter, forces record allegations as “no crime”, and women are reluctant to come forward with claims in the first place.
Police will lose the power to bail people indefinitely under plans announced by the home secretary, lawyer Tom Crone says the system is “grotesque”.
An inquiry finds nearly one in five crimes in England and Wales goes unrecorded every year – and nearly 200 rape offences were dropped between November 2012 and October 2013.
Despite repeated denials from the Metropolitan police, a Channel 4 News investigation finds officers have been set individual monthly arrest targets. Critics warn it could create perverse incentives.
Four men who allegedly planned a terror attack in London carried out “hostile reconnaissance” of a police station and army barracks, Scotland Yard says.
