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Posts Tagged ‘police’

‘I don’t feel safe in Shoreditch late at night’, police officer tells councillors as he warns of return to ‘bad old days of alcohol-fuelled violence’

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 18 August 2021 at 15:15

PC Neal Hunwick explains police policy to oppose extended opening hours in the area, as colleague PC Sian Giles reveals serious injuries are commonplace

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Councillors close bar for good after bouncers help knife attack suspects escape through back door

By Jacob Dirnhuber, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 12 July 2021 at 11:05

Heart of Hackney on Mare Street admits nine separate licensing breaches

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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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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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Man fined for lockdown boat party on River Lea

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 10 June 2021 at 10:10

Jordy Nicholas Van Duijvenbode, 31, told to pay £1,902 after organising bash for more than 30 people in February

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Police launch probe after man with serious injuries dies in Gillett Square

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 May 2021 at 11:33
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The victim, believed to be in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene after police responded to reports of gunfire

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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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Man sectioned following ‘appalling’ assault on pregnant woman in Stamford Hill

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 26 March 2021 at 13:19

Victim, 20, had a pillow thrown over her head before being attacked on Manor Road last week

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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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Hundreds defy police ban to pay respects to Sarah Everard at London Fields

By Lizzie McAllister | Tuesday 16 March 2021 at 15:15

‘We will not allow the state to tell us when and how we can gather to grieve and protest’, says Women’s Strike

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Council to hold online vigil for Sarah Everard as residents urged to ‘show support virtually’

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 12 March 2021 at 19:37

Town Hall leaders express solidarity with murdered marketing executive and call for an end to ‘damaging culture of victim-blaming’

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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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Organiser of 400-person wedding in Stamford Hill facing £10k fine

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 22 January 2021 at 12:27
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Borough’s police chief hits out at ‘unacceptable’ behaviour when ‘people across the country are postponing or cancelling celebrations’

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Police and council to bolster officer numbers at Broadway Market after last week’s crowds

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 13 November 2020 at 12:30

Traders were forced to close early last weekend as people ‘congregated around shops selling takeaway alcohol’

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Campaigners and councillors challenge local police on stop and search

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 11 November 2020 at 18:21
Police have confirmed they are investigating the incident

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

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Police investigating theft of thousands of Stik prints intended as ‘gifts for Hackney residents’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 27 October 2020 at 11:32

Detectives say posters appear to have been stolen ‘somewhere along the supply and distribution chain’ for Town Hall newspaper Hackney Today

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Police officer knocked unconscious during arrest in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 19 August 2020 at 11:56

Male officer taken to hospital for treatment yesterday after being thrown against a wall at a pub on Mare Street

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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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Two teenagers found guilty of racially aggravated assault on rabbi

By Aisha Payne | Wednesday 22 July 2020 at 12:24
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The boys, aged 15 and 16, each received a year-long Youth Rehabilitation Order for the attack in Amhurst Park last November

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Hackney councillors call on Metropolitan Police to recognise ‘implicit bias’

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 10 July 2020 at 21:22

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

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