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Sadiq Khan reveals Islington Council leader Kaya Comer-Schwartz as new policing deputy

The mayor’s incoming new deputy said she was ‘thrilled’ to have been chosen for the job, which involves overseeing the work of the Met Police

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan suffers blow as deputy mayor for policing and crime quits City Hall

Sophie Linden follows Amy Lame out of City Hall and is the third deputy mayor to quit in a matter of months

Evening Standard

'Our children are being murdered' - Sadiq Khan challenged over grip on Met Police

Tory assembly member Lord Bailey urged the London mayor to ‘take a closer role’ in scrutinising the Met

Evening Standard

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Tory government 'whipped up hatred' and 'threw Met Police under the bus', deputy mayor claims

Tory assembly member Susan Hall said the remarks were ‘outrageous’ and ‘utterly wrong’

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan earns more than Prime Minister as salary rises to £160,000 with pay hikes for top aides

The Mayor and at least 13 of his City Hall staff earn more than Rishi Sunak

Evening Standard

Prevent counter-extremism programme budget to be slashed in London

Funding, which stood at £6.1m at the time of the general election, will fall to about £2m from April 2025

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Susan Hall clashes with Sadiq Khan’s policing deputy on public trust in the Met

The Tory mayoral candidate said Londoners’ trust in the police has ‘absolutely plummeted’

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Retail chief calls on Mayor of London to take action amid huge spike in shop thefts

Thefts from London retail premises rose by 13% last year, and experts say they are becoming increasingly violent

Evening Standard

Met says it will make public key findings of coronation arrests review

Assistant commissioner declines to give publication date and defends right to make arrests without evidence

The Guardian - UK

Sir Mark Rowley: New ‘psychological tools’ could weed out malicious police recruits

The Met Commissioner said the police force was ‘tightening up’ its vetting processes for new and existing officers

Evening Standard

Detection rate for rape ‘plummeting’ in capital amid crisis in the Met

Women’s confidence in the Met has falled, London’s deputy mayor tells MPs

Evening Standard

Concerns raised over use of police in London schools

Senior staff at City Hall said there was widespread support for police in schools - and that there was even a case to expand them into some primary schools

Evening Standard

Sadiq khan ‘asleep at the wheel’ over failures at Met, says policing minister Kit Malthouse

Sadiq Khan and his deputy mayor should have considered resigning because of the extent of the failures they have overseen in the Metropolitan police, the Government’s policing minister suggested on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan and Priti Patel go to war over Met Police shambles

Patel thinks mayor is ‘asleep at the wheel’ while he claims she opposed key changes

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