Crime & Police

Tony Long told LBC that police don't want to operate outside the law

Police don’t want to live outside the law, says Met’s former 'top marksman' amid rebellion over fatal shooting

Soldiers are on standby for armed police after scores of Metropolitan Police officers stood down from firearms duties following a murder charge against one of their colleagues.

Public have 'absolutely' nothing to worry about amid armed police walkout, minister tells LBC

Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said armed police officers fear legal action in a new open letter after a serving cop was charged with the murder of Chris Kaba.

Met chief backs armed police over Chris Kaba protest as army set to step in

An armed police officer has been charged with the murder of Chris Kaba

Armed cops in Met Police hand in weapons in protest after officer charged with murder of Chris Kaba

Sgt Paul Frear has died after he was hit by a car while walking to work.

Tributes paid after hero police officer who served for 21 years is hit and killed by car while walking to work

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A member of Sadiq Khan's London Policing Board previously called to "overthrow" the Conservative government through force, and has labelled the Met as "deeply insidious, racist, misogynistic, immoral and a threat to society and a cancer"

Cronies or critics? Doubts raised over Sadiq Khan's hand-picked police watchdogs

Jamie-Leigh Kelly

Urgent hunt for mother, 31, who vanished with her newborn and three-year-old as man arrested

Stuart Lawrence and Neil Basu are among those on the board.

Stephen Lawrence’s brother among experts to sit on Sadiq Khan’s new policing board to help reform Met Police

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Police and large groups of young people in Oxford Circus hours after the mass TikTok crime was due to take place.

Oxford Street TikTok chaos which saw 'hundreds of youths' descend cost Met Police over £100,000

Chris Kaba was killed last year

Police officer charged with murdering Chris Kaba released on bail