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Met must learn from ‘appalling mistakes’, Patel warns new commissioner

Sir Mark Rowley will take over as head of the force in the coming days.

The Independent UK

Met Police must learn from ‘appalling mistakes’, says Priti Patel

She has called for a ‘transformation’ of the Met and a crackdown on violent crime in London

Evening Standard

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #28

Welcome to Hall Pass. This newsletter keeps you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance. Each week, we bring you a roundup of the latest on school board elections, along with sharp commentary and research from across the political spectrum on the issues confronting school boards in…

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Ricardo Dos Santos: Police watchdog rules out investigating armed stop of Portuguese sprinter

Complaint returned to Metropolitan Police to investigate

The Independent UK

Race-Based Layoff Scheme at Minneapolis Schools

From Hans Bader (Liberty Unyielding): The Minneapolis Public Schools have adopted a race-based layoff provision that violates the Constitution and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. "A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before "educators of color" in the event Minneapolis…

Reason

Meet the mums standing for Parliament under plan to tackle toxic Commons culture

The MotheRED project has issued grants of up to £2,000 to help mums with the cost of standing for selection as Labour MPs. Meet some of the latest winners

Daily Mirror

Met Police strip search of two boys, both aged 16, being investigated by IOPC

It follows the widespread protests at Child Q’s strip search at a Hackney school

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Two more child strip-search cases being investigated by watchdog

The cases both involve 16-year-old boys who were searched in custody without an appropriate adult present.

The Independent UK

Met fails in second bid to sack senior officer over child abuse video

Judge upholds ruling that superintendent was unfairly dismissed over unsolicited WhatsApp message as supporters say force must accept it ‘got it wrong’

The Guardian - UK

Robyn Williams: Met must keep top officer sacked over abuse video

The Metropolitan Police has been told to keep in post a senior officer convicted of possessing a child abuse video.

Evening Standard

Police admit they didn't send Boris Johnson questionnaires on TWO Partygate events

The revelation is thought to be the first time the Metropolitan Police has admitted this, under details released as part of a legal challenge by the Good Law Project

Daily Mirror

Met police admit they did NOT send Johnson two questionnaires over partygate

On two key dates - one where the PM was photographed with a drink in his hand - the force admitted they did not send Boris Johnson questionnaires

The National (Scotland)

Met did not ask Johnson about two lockdown events he attended – campaign group

The force has admitted it did not send the PM questionnaires despite photos showing him drinking wine at one of the events, the Good Law Project said.

The Independent UK

Peabody apologises after resident lay dead for over two years in Peckham flat

Coroner says situation is ‘difficult to fathom in 2022’

The Independent UK

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Medical expert witnesses ‘should not scapegoat doctors’

Focus on individual’s culpability played into ‘blame-based system of accountability’, says healthcare professionals body

The Independent UK

Three million people in England yet to get a Covid jab

MPs call for ‘redoubled’ efforts to jab unvaccinated people

Asharq Al-Awsat

Families of Beirut Port Blast Victims Seek Compensation from MPs Close to Berri

The legal representatives of the families of the Beirut port explosion victims have resorted to a civil court to demand financial compensation from two MPs close to parliament Speaker Nabih Berri for their involvement in the 2020 disaster. The families turned to Judge Zalfa al-Hassan to demand that MPs Ali…

Daily Mirror

Man who died after being Tasered by police was 'beloved son, brother and friend'

The devastated family of Oladeji Adeyemi Omishore, 41, who died after being Tasered by police in London have paid their tributes, and are asking for the Met Police to be held responsible for their actions

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The Guardian - UK

Met police did not consult us on children’s data project, say youth violence experts

Force claimed it approached groups before launch of Project Alpha which scours social media sites

Reuters

MPs charged over Beirut blast re-elected, troubling families of victims

Two Lebanese lawmakers charged in connection with the 2020 Beirut port blast have been re-elected in the first poll since the catastrophe, leaving some families of victims fearing further delays in a stalled investigation into the explosion.

The Guardian - UK

Overseas-trained NHS doctors more likely to be struck off without lawyer at disciplinary

Nearly 40% of doctors who trained abroad do not have legal representation, compared with 25% of doctors who qualified in UK

The Independent UK

Job advert for Britain’s most senior police officer goes live

The next Metropolitan Police Commissioner is expected to be appointed in the summer

The Independent UK

First fines to be issued over partygate gatherings

The Metropolitan Police said investigators will refer the 20 fixed penalty notices to the ACRO Criminal Records Office.

The Guardian - UK

Lebedev criticises Labour as MPs debate releasing security advice behind peerage – as it happened

Latest updates: Peer says opposition criticism of him is based on ‘pure innuendo’; government may be forced to release security advice on Lebedev

ABC News

Stolen Napoleon Boneparte art bought on eBay to be returned to Mornington Peninsula Gallery

Art sleuth Leigh Capel says it was a "jaw-dropping moment" when he realised a portrait miniature he had bought online had been stolen from a Victorian museum eight years earlier.

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