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Britain’s biggest police force to double use of live facial recognition

The Metropolitan Police is also planning to expand its public order crime team amid a rise in protest-related offences in the past two years.

The Independent UK

Met Police set to increase use of facial recognition technology amid force restructure

The Met said that it had made 1,000 arrests using live facial recognition, of which 773 had led to charge or caution

The Independent UK

OPINION - When Mayfair is a cesspit of crime, you have to ask is anywhere in this city safe?

The crime statistics are piling up, and all of them are scary. Knife crime in London, according to this paper’s correspondent, Ross Lydall, is up nearly ten per cent since last year: London now accounts for roughly one in three knife attacks in England and Wales.

Evening Standard

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Fury as Metropolitan Police to close half its police station front desks after budget cuts

Move would break Scotland Yard’s pledge to have one counter accessible 24/7 in all 32 London boroughs

Evening Standard

‘Shameful’ that black boys in London more likely to die by 18 than white boys, says Met chief

Mark Rowley says historically ‘policing has got a lot wrong’ in black communities but ‘we get a lot more right today’

The Guardian - UK

Met chief calls racial disparities in London’s justice system ‘shameful’

Sir Mark Rowley addressed the racial disparities between suspects and victims of crime in London

The Independent UK

Racial disparities in criminal justice system ‘shameful’ – Met Police chief

Sir Mark Rowley discussed the racial disparity among suspects and victims of crime in London.

Evening Standard

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Notting Hill Carnival SAVED and will go ahead next month after almost £1m found to boost security

Street festival gets bailout from City Hall and two councils but there’s dismay that Government has declined to help

Evening Standard

Voices: It’s time football clubs paid the price of policing matches

COMMENT: The head of the Met is is right that taxpayers shouldn’t be paying the £70m-a-year cost of match-day policing, says Chris Blackhurst – the filthy-rich Premier League clubs and their billionaire owners should be footing the bill

The Independent UK

OPINION - Are 'mega forces' the solution to Britain’s policing woes?

Britain has too much crime because it has too many police forces, apparently. But don’t fret, Britons, the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has had A Big Idea. Sir Mark Rowley, chief of the ever-showered-in-glory Metropolitan Police, has proposed a radical overhaul of the make-up of police forces. What…

Evening Standard

Prince of Wales joins those remembering victims 20 years on from July 7 attacks

William attended a ceremony in Hyde Park that followed a service in St Paul’s and an earlier wreath-laying on the 20th anniversary of the atrocities.

The Independent UK

Prince William pays respects to victims of 7/7 bombings as London remembers 20 years on

Day of moving commemorations to mark 20 years since 7/7 bomb attacks which killed 52 people and injured several hundred

Evening Standard

Victims of July 7 attacks remembered 20 years on with service at St Paul’s

The 2005 bomb attacks killed 52 people and injured several hundred more.

The Independent UK

Police chiefs call for cuts to number of forces in England and Wales

Reduction from 43 forces to as few as 12 could save money and end ‘postcode lottery’ for crime victims, leaders say

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Met Police chief says policing football matches costs £70m a year

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Evening Standard

Law has 'no age limit' says Met chief after 83-year-old arrested at Palestine Action protest

Sir Mark Rowley said the law would be enforced ‘whether you’re 18 or 80’ after Sue Parfitt was held at a protest in support of Palestine Action

The Independent UK

Met Police chief says football clubs should pay for their own policing

Sir Mark Rowley said the cost across the country is around £70million

Evening Standard

Met Police chief says policing football matches across country costs £70m

Sir Mark Rowley said that policing of football matches costs £70 million which it does not get back from football clubs.

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The Independent UK

Met chief calls for ‘mega’ forces in push for police reform

Sir Mark Rowley said bigger forces would be better able to utilise modern technology and reduce expenses.

Evening Standard

Met chief Sir Mark Rowley urges creation of 15 ‘mega forces’ in radical police reform plan

Sir Mark Rowley said bigger forces would be better able to utilise modern technology and reduce expenses.

Evening Standard

Revealed: West End’s phone theft hotspot streets as numbers of London crimes soar

Oxford Street, Europe’s busiest shopping precinct, tops the list with 6,539 reports last year – nearly 18 a day

Evening Standard

Mayor says device to assess bruising to darker skin shows police have changed

The devices, known as Project Archway, allow officers to better assess victims’ injuries, particularly on darker skin.

The Independent UK

Groundbreaking technology to help police tackle violence against women

The handheld device is the first of its kind to be developed

Evening Standard

Met chief praises officers’ ‘extraordinary bravery’ responding to sword attacker

Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, killed 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin with a samurai sword in Hainault, north-east London, on April 30 last year.

The Independent UK

Police officers and Met chief express concerns over Notting Hill Carnival

Sir Mark Rowley questioned if funding for extra stewards will be secured in time for late August, while an officers’ group called the event ‘unsafe’.

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