Metropolitan Police

Stories

• The Metropolitan Police is failing in almost all its areas of work, the police inspectorate has said.
• The Metropolitan Police is "inconsistent" in managing sex offenders.
• The Metropolitan Police has not met its goal of reducing the number of outstanding suspects.
• There were significant issues in the standards of investigation, victim care and investigation management in the Metropolitan Police's victim service.
• The Metropolitan Police has more work to do to make sure it consistently assesses the level of risk for all 999 and 101 calls when considering a response.
• Issues arising due to a lack of training for investigating officers including in managing sex offence suspects and offenders.
• Inexperienced officers trying to manage large workloads beyond their training and knowledge.
• The Metropolitan Police's culture makes some officers and staff reluctant to speak out about poor behaviour.
• Mark Rowley, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, believes because he is correctly applying the law when he is being accused of being both woke and fascist.
• Protestor holding "Hamas are Terrorists" sign arrested by police.
• In a case where £3billion in Bitcoin was seized, half of the proceeds will be given to the Home Office and the other half to the Metropolitan Police.
• Man is fined £90 for covering face in front of facial recognition cameras.
• Shakeel Begg, an imam at Lewisham Islamic Centre, lectured children and worked with Metropolitan Police despite being ruled "extremist" by a high court judge.
• Should never have employed Wayne Couzens.
• Assistant commissioner, Lousia Rolfe, states the greatest strength of London is its diversity, just days after members of parliament were coerced by violent threats by radical Islamists, and weeks after a member of parliament resigned after receiving death threats from radical Islamists.
• Indicates that simply being a Jew is provocative.
• Scraps ties with head of Muslim advisory group, Attiq Malik, who chanted "from the river to the sea".
• Arrested someone for saying Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, was a proscribed terrorist organisation.
• Chanting and projecting "from the river to the sea" on Big Ben is not a crime.
• Former officer convicted of 10 counts of rape, including three of raping a child under the age of 13.
• Investigating vandalism to pride flags as hate crimes.
• Officer threatens to arrest a Christian preacher due to allegations of a hate crime.
• Man flies to UK without ticket or passport arriving at Heathrow Airport and is allowed to walk free out of the airport to then fail to turn up to a court summons several weeks later.
• Not all calls for Jihad are violent.
• Detective Constable Zainab Hussain who took relative off domestic abuse suspects list is given written warning.
• Gave police the green light to take a knee during Black Lives Matter protest.
• Failed to retrieve the CCTV footage of a man having his watch stolen.
• Investigated a homophobic attack by a black man which they didn't believe was a hate crime.
• A team of more than 20 officers is now dedicated to investigating potential war crimes, including allegations relating to Israel-Gaza.
• Failed to turn up after 10 emergency calls where three people were attacked in Leicester Square for being Jewish.
• Officer tells Christian singer on Oxford Street that she is not allowed to perform church songs outside of church grounds before walking off and sticking her tongue out to the camera.
• Hundreds of armed officers have deserted the firearms unit in the past six months after a colleague was charged with the murder of Chris Kaba.
• Former officer, charged with 13 counts of rape, tied up one of his alleged victims, and threatened to stab her and slit her throat, a jury has been told.
• More than 1,000 Metropolitan officers are currently suspended or on restricted duties as it tries to root out rogue officers.
• Scraps gang database because it unfairly discriminated against black people who were disproportionately represented on it.
• The number of 10 to 19 year olds charged with rape in London has more than doubled in two years from 2021 to 2023.

People

• Louisa Rolfe
• Mark Rowley

Twitter

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