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Posts Tagged ‘Hackney Account’

Child Q: Two officers who conducted strip-search removed from frontline duties

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 24 March 2022 at 14:13

Police watchdog investigating three constables for their involvement

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Child Q: Hackney Mayor calls on Home Secretary to take action over strip-searching of children

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 18 March 2022 at 15:10

Child Q was strip-searched in her school’s medical room, without a responsible adult present

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Hackney police commander calls on community to ‘take more responsibility’

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 7 April 2021 at 09:49
Hackney’s police commander Marcus Barnett

Marcus Barnett calls for a ‘citizen role’ in policing and defends stop and search as a ‘legal, needed tool’

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Police accused of ‘racial profiling’ after stopping member of Hackney police scrutiny group

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 10 March 2021 at 11:15

Hackney Account’s David Smith says ‘everyone should be happy it happened to me and not to someone who doesn’t know the law’

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Renewed calls to tackle racism on third anniversary of Rashan Charles’ death

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 22 July 2020 at 19:36

Mayor speaks of his anger at the lack of closure for the family, who continue to question the police watchdog’s ruling that Charles’ death was ‘accidental’

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Hackney police’s stance on race disparity in stop and search ‘astounds’ equalities boss

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 24 June 2020 at 20:31
Police tape

Cllr Carole Williams criticises presentation given by officers, which led her to accuse them of policing ‘based on feelings and beliefs rather than stats and facts’

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Middleton Road stop and search incident ‘not in any way surprising’, says monitoring group

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 22 June 2020 at 19:45

The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the IOPC after footage emerged of a Black man appearing to be kneed in the head by an officer while restrained

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