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Broadcaster Selina Scott says she blames Sadiq Khan for her mugging

The 74-year-old received an apology from the head of the Metropolitan Police and says she blames the mayor of London.

Evening Standard

Police ordered to reveal ethnicity of suspects charged in high-profile cases after cover-up claims

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said it is right to release further details even if that might ‘embolden racists’

Evening Standard

Palestine Action protesters warned they may never travel to US or work in education again

Lawyers say just being arrested for a terror offence could have lifelong consequences - as hundreds plan to attend mass protest in London on Saturday

Evening Standard

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Sadiq Khan’s policing deputy knew half of police front desks closing in London but ‘didn’t say anything’

One angry member at City Hall asked Kaya Comer-Schwartz what the point is of her £151,465-a year role

Evening Standard

Police warn of mass arrests if Palestine Action protest goes ahead

Hundreds could join weekend rally in support of proscribed group as 300 UK Jewish figures urge PM to lift ban

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The latest sign of Broken Britain? The mass closure of police stations

The message from the Met’s planned closure of half its police stations is clear: do not try and see the police in the one place where you might think they’d be available, in an actual police station. Just call them instead. And if you are rash enough to be mugged…

Evening Standard

London is 'really safe' city, says Met chief, as Sadiq Khan is confronted on surge in knife crime

Reform councillor ‘ambushes’ mayor during West End photo opportunity

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Moment prolific thieves are caught as Met Police vow West End crime crackdown

Extra 80 officers join team focusing on hotspots around Oxford Circus and Regent Street

Evening Standard

Met Police to double use of facial recognition technology amid budget cuts

The move by London’s police force comes as it restructures to cover the loss of 1,400 officers and 300 staff amid budget shortages

Evening Standard

Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition

Technology will now be used up to 10 times a week across five days, up from four times a week across two days

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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‘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 Independent 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

Evening Standard

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.

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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

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The Independent UK

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

Evening Standard

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…

The Independent UK

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.

Evening Standard

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

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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

The Independent UK

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

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