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Posts Tagged ‘Metropolitan police’

Scotland Yard’s reform plan wins cross-party praise – with Mayor of London hailing it as an ‘important step’

By Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 21 July 2023 at 10:57

Force to recruit 500 community support officers as it focuses on neighbourhood policing

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‘Why was it me?’ Child Q still haunted by school strip-search, safeguarding expert reveals in hard-hitting report

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 20 June 2023 at 17:11

Jim Gamble says experience is ‘still a weight on the child’s shoulders’ as he sets out raft of recommendations for tackling institutional racism

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Child strip-searches: More incidents come to light after police ‘data error’

By Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 12 June 2023 at 14:05

Scotland Yard admits mistakenly underreporting its use of the tactic – prompting London politician to demand a ‘guarantee of proper transparency’

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Child Q: Laws allowing child strip-searches need ‘radical rethink’, says safeguarding expert

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 26 April 2023 at 17:45

Jim Gamble tells councillors examining the response to the scandal that there is ‘no justification’ for the tactic

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‘Wake-up call’: New report finds thousands of child strip-searches were carried out in past four years – more than half without appropriate adult

By Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 30 March 2023 at 12:10

Children’s Commissioner’s review shows ‘police cannot be trusted with the devastating power’, says London politician

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Casey Review: Hackney Council ‘appalled’ by Metropolitan Police’s systemic failings

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 21 March 2023 at 18:26
Althea

‘Policing by consent at serious risk of collapse’

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‘Not surprising’: Majority of Londoners hold negative view of the police, new polling finds

By Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 21 July 2022 at 11:16

Leading thinktank says figures show ‘scale of reform needed to regain trust’

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Child Q: Officers who strip-searched Black teenager now being investigated for gross misconduct

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 14 June 2022 at 09:37
The Child Q scandal sparked protests in Hackney.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct says it has ‘uplifted the level of its investigation’

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Child Q: Police’s decision to strip-search Black teenager at school to be examined at special council meeting

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 7 June 2022 at 18:10

Commission set to hear updates from Scotland Yard and the Mayor of Hackney, with residents able to watch proceedings live online

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‘Concerning’: More than 500 injuries caused by e-scooter collisions in London last year

By Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 27 May 2022 at 11:45

London Assembly transport spokesperson says new figures reinforce need for ‘robust regulation’

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Delivery couriers stage rousing protest against ‘excessive policing’ in Hackney

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 26 May 2022 at 15:51

Crowds took to the streets earlier in the month when police attempted to arrest a driver in Dalston

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‘Violent disorder’ at Dalston protest: Met’s ‘disproportionate and inflammatory approach’ raises concerns over policing – again

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 16 May 2022 at 18:34
Operation Vespa

Operation to clamp down on street robberies involving scooters escalated into ‘violent scenes’

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Children as young as 10 have been strip-searched by the Metropolitan Police, figures show

By Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 25 April 2022 at 11:36

Data obtained by London Assembly Member Caroline Russell in wake of Child Q scandal

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Child Q: Metropolitan Police to bring in stricter rules for intimate searches of children

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 1 April 2022 at 17:41

Hackney Council ‘cautiously welcomes’ Met’s response to strip-search of Black teenage girl at her school

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Child Q: School apologises for teenage girl’s ‘harrowing’ experience

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 25 March 2022 at 17:18

Governing board accepts the child ‘should not have been left in the situation that she was’

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Child Q: Metropolitan Police ‘taking racism claim very seriously’, says assistant commissioner

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 24 March 2022 at 10:16

Louisa Rolfe, tipped as a possible successor to Cressida Dick, says Met accepts findings of safeguarding review

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Child Q: Councillors call for resignation of Hackney police borough commander

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 18 March 2022 at 18:35
Hackney’s police commander Marcus Barnett

‘We no longer see you occupying the role of Borough Commander as a tenable option for our borough’

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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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Police officer who emailed attempted robbery victim to tell her she was ‘amazingly hot’ keeps his job

By Josh Mellor, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 8 October 2021 at 09:31

Detective chief inspector James Mason, who used to work in Hackney, barred from promotion for three years for gross misconduct

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Counter-terrorism chief warns Londoners not to get ‘complacent’

By Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 8 July 2021 at 15:27

Metropolitan Police commander says ‘substantial’ number of roughly 800 active probes are centred on the capital

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