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Posts Tagged ‘Metropolitan police’

Councillor shares first-hand experience of racial profiling at hands of police as she demands changes to Stop and Search

By Jacob Dirnhuber, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 23 June 2021 at 07:30
Soraya Adejare

Soraya Adejare told how police officers pulled her over for “looking lost” – even though she was driving home from work

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Mother of teenager murdered in Hackney joins anti-knife crime campaign

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 16 April 2021 at 13:23

Yvonne Lawson MBE relives the first call she made following her son’s death to encourage people to use Crimestoppers

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Hackney shooting: Man wanted for conspiracy to murder

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 26 March 2021 at 13:04
Nadi Kwame

Police appeal for public’s help in tracking down 18-year-old Nadi Kwame

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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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Rogue Tory election agent deliberately misled voters in fake signature scam

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 19 October 2020 at 19:49
Polling station credit Martin Deutsch

Diana Danescu, 28, given suspended prison sentence after being found guilty last week at Southwark Crown Court

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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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Hackney police commander ‘sorry that the community hurts’ as effort launched to defuse tensions

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 11 June 2020 at 20:23
Hackney’s police commander Marcus Barnett

Marcus Barnett says there are ‘bridges to repair and build’ as he vows to do whatever he can to ‘make things better’

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Attack on two Hackney police officers condemned amid warnings of ‘escalating danger’

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 11 June 2020 at 09:15

London Mayor and borough leader speak of their shock as police federation says officers ‘are not society’s punching bags’

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Victim named in fatal Hackney shooting as police call for information

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 8 June 2020 at 17:34

Oluwamayowa Adeymi, 21, died from a gunshot wound to the chest on Brackenfield Close on 5 June

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Stop and searches in Hackney more than double in three years

By Elizabeth Rushton | Monday 27 January 2020 at 13:21

Community leaders say indiscriminate use of practice risks alienating people

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Stoke Newington councillor strikes conciliatory note after stop and search row

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 20 June 2019 at 19:02

Cllr Mete Coban praises Hackney Police while calling for Section 60 orders to be ‘proportionate, respectful and intelligence-led’

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Shootings up 25 per cent in Hackney in a year, new data shows

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 17 September 2018 at 15:19

Council moves to reassure residents that gang numbers are ‘insignificant’

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Rashan Charles: Family slams ‘flawed’ investigation by police watchdog after accidental death ruling

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 22 June 2018 at 12:47

Relatives say Independent Office for Police Conduct probe ‘felt predetermined’ and claim ‘evidence was excluded’

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Devotion – A Portrait of Loretta, by Franklyn Rodgers: review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 30 May 2018 at 13:53

The large-scale portraits, which include a commissioned photograph of Doreen Lawrence, recognise the significance of close-knit relationships, such as the one between mother and son

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Hackney has ‘around 18 street gangs’ says anti-crime chief – and council uses Met’s controversial gang matrix

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 16 May 2018 at 20:24

Cllr Caroline Selman says the police matrix supports Hackney’s Integrated Gangs Unit

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Hackney youth worker says give people on police gang matrix apprenticeships

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 14 May 2018 at 18:39

Deji Adeoshun of Hackney CVS says good jobs can save young men from a life of crime

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Hackney crime chief says cuts to blame for Tower Hamlets police merger

By Adam Barnett | Monday 12 February 2018 at 17:58
Caroline Selman

Cllr Selman said she would work to ‘minimise the impact’ on residents

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Road closures: Residents complain of ‘shocking crime rise’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 6 February 2018 at 12:11
Wordsworth Road and Cowper Road junction

Council says police data does not show a problem amid concern over new traffic plans

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London Fields cinema apologises for Kevin Spacey ‘oversight’

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 26 January 2018 at 11:46

Institute of Light used an old poster for ‘All the Money in the World’ featuring the disgraced star

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Rashan Charles: Death ‘most likely’ caused by attempt to swallow package

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 January 2018 at 16:21

Post-mortem found no injuries to suggest excessive restraint, police watchdog reveals

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