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Metropolitan police

August 2024

  • People take part in a rally in solidarity with Child Q outside Hackney town hall in east London in March 2022

    Disciplinary hearing date for Child Q strip-search officers still to be set

  • Met police officers

    Inspection finds Met police failing or inadequate in key crime fighting areas

  • demonstrators carrying anti-racism placards

    Anti-racism activist in London reports break-in attempt after far-right threats

  • Prime minister says police are to remain on 'high alert' as the country heads into the weekend after days of violent disorder and unrest in England and Northern Ireland

    Keir Starmer says police must stay on 'high alert' as fears of riots continue – video

  • Met police chief says two-tier policing claims are 'complete nonsense' – video

  • 'Spy cops' scandal
    Met chief’s apology to deceived women ‘outrageous’, says ex-undercover officer

  • Met failures leading to murder of Zara Aleena could happen again, coroner warns

  • New Scotland Yard signage

    Serving Met Police officer charged with sexual assault

  • The sign outside the New Scotland Yard building in London.

    'Spy cops' scandal
    Undercover officer who deceived women was ‘morally bankrupt’, inquiry hears

  • Woman sat on sofa holding her knees

    Violence against women is a national emergency, but will police do anything?

  • MAY -2022 -Ramsgate: Mina Smallman's two daughters were never to return from a birthday celebration the night before in a north London park. Mina pictured in her home in Ramsgate. ( Photography by Graeme Robertson)

    Observer book of the week
    A Better Tomorrow by Mina Smallman review – devastation and beyond

  • Former Met commander Julian Bennett

    Sacking of senior police officer who failed to provide drug test sample overturned

    Scotland Yard considers legal challenge after decision, saying commanders are expected to ‘lead by example’
  • Craig Carter leaves Wood Green crown court in London

    Met officer pleads guilty to stealing from man who collapsed and died

    PC Craig Carter told he faces prison for stealing about £115 from wallet received as evidence in 2022
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Why is violence against women only getting worse? The answer doesn’t lie with Andrew Tate

    Gaby Hinsliff
    We are no closer to understanding why some men hate women so viciously – but we can transform how misogyny is policed, writes Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • Mina Smallman poses for a photo in an urban park

    I have not forgiven Met officers who photographed dead daughters, mother says

  • Mark Olden

    The truth about this unsolved murder is finally coming to light. Here’s what it reveals about racism in Britain

    Mark Olden
  • Farooq Abdulrazak and Juan Cifuentes.

    Met investigating if two bodies found in gutted car in Sweden are missing Londoners

  • The emblem of Saudi Arabia – a palm tree above two crossed swords – on the pediment of its embassy in London, with a blurred fence in the foreground

    Rights and freedom
    UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

  • Women stand with their backs to a fence outside an RAF airbase

    'Spy cops' scandal
    Met spying on Greenham Common protest was ‘ridiculous waste of money’, say campaigners

  • Fuzzy CCTV image of motorcyclist

    Nine-year-old shot in Hackney may never again ‘speak or move properly’

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