Crime & Police

The Home Office wants police to be more ready to use their powers of stop and search

Stop and Search is in our 'armoury' but 'burns through trust', says Sir Mark Rowley

'Officers bag a real slippery customer'

Snakes on a lane: Cops get 'off the scale shock' as they encounter giant boa constrictor while on patrol

A man who also received an injury to his hand was arrested on Old Christchurch Road (pictured)

Man, 21, fighting for his life after seaside double stabbing outside a takeaway

A police officer was stabbed in Maidstone

Police officer stabbed in Kent airlifted to hospital in 'serious condition' in hospital as suspect arrested

Just Stop Oil blocked up several streets in London on Wednesday morning

Just Stop Oil eco-activists halt traffic again, on same day police get fresh powers to clear protesters from roads

Just Stop Oil used bikes in their protest for the first time

Just Stop Oil start 'slow cycling' protests, with onlookers bemused as police steer eco-activists onto the pavement

Tommy Taylor tried to con an elderly couple out of £1,000

Con man jailed after trying to trick elderly couple into paying him for roofing work he hadn't done

Police will now attend every burglary across England and Wales.

Police now attend every home burglary after chief constables' landmark deal

Freya Carley drowned off the coast of North Yorkshire

Family of 'treasured' girl who died in the sea in North Yorkshire pay tribute to 'beautiful daughter' named for first time
Police have not solved a burglary in three years in nearly half of neighbourhoods in England and Wales

Police fail to solve burglary in half of neighbourhoods in last three years, as offence effectively 'decriminalised'