Posts Tagged ‘police’
Police and council to bolster officer numbers at Broadway Market after last week’s crowds
Traders were forced to close early last weekend as people ‘congregated around shops selling takeaway alcohol’
Read MoreCampaigners and councillors challenge local police on stop and search
Officers face scrutiny commission in wake of reports showing Black people in Hackney are three and a half times more likely to be stopped than white people
Read MorePolice investigating theft of thousands of Stik prints intended as ‘gifts for Hackney residents’
Detectives say posters appear to have been stolen ‘somewhere along the supply and distribution chain’ for Town Hall newspaper Hackney Today
Read MorePolice officer knocked unconscious during arrest in Hackney
Male officer taken to hospital for treatment yesterday after being thrown against a wall at a pub on Mare Street
Read MoreRenewed calls to tackle racism on third anniversary of Rashan Charles’ death
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’
Read MoreTwo teenagers found guilty of racially aggravated assault on rabbi
The boys, aged 15 and 16, each received a year-long Youth Rehabilitation Order for the attack in Amhurst Park last November
Read MoreHackney councillors call on Metropolitan Police to recognise ‘implicit bias’
Equalities boss Cllr Carole Williams and community safety chief Cllr Caroline Selman want police to ‘understand people’s differences’ after figures show stark race disparity in local stop and search
Read MoreHackney police’s stance on race disparity in stop and search ‘astounds’ equalities boss
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’
Read MoreMiddleton Road stop and search incident ‘not in any way surprising’, says monitoring group
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
Read MoreConfusion as council domestic abuse referrals jump during lockdown while reports to police fall
Work going on to understand why police reports have dropped despite Town Hall seeing 60 per cent rise in weekly cases
Read More‘Bring us the facts’: Activists call for stop and search reform as police seek to build trust
The use of Section 60 orders is coming under heavy scrutiny, with Black people 40 times more likely to be stopped in England and Wales under the powers
Read MoreAttack on two Hackney police officers condemned amid warnings of ‘escalating danger’
London Mayor and borough leader speak of their shock as police federation says officers ‘are not society’s punching bags’
Read MoreTwo men injured in suspected acid attack in Hackney
Pair in their twenties taken to hospital last Friday with burns which police say are not life-threatening
Read MoreCourier and former Shomrim volunteer guilty of lying to police over Stamford Hill ‘robbery’
Thiago Alves and Michael Scher sentenced after falsely accusing two teenagers of trying to steal moped
Read MoreThames Water slammed by residents for ‘inadequate’ response to Lea Bridge floods
‘We don’t want to see this any more in Hackney, this should be the last time. It takes its toll on everyone’
Read MoreRashan Charles: Officer cleared of misconduct despite ‘basic failings’
Police watchdog investigation concludes the officer ‘froze’ but ‘did his best in difficult circumstances’
Read MoreDalston off-licence accused of selling smuggled tobacco – and alcohol to a minor
Illicit stash found in covert hiding place above staff toilet door
Read MoreHomeless men evicted from Mare Street tents by council enforcement team
Police called as men are forced out for ‘obstructing the highway’
Read MoreHackney has ‘around 18 street gangs’ says anti-crime chief – and council uses Met’s controversial gang matrix
Cllr Caroline Selman says the police matrix supports Hackney’s Integrated Gangs Unit
Read MoreHackney crime chief says cuts to blame for Tower Hamlets police merger
Cllr Selman said she would work to ‘minimise the impact’ on residents
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