The Latest Breaking News from The Metropolitan Police

Victim suffered facial burns when jacket set alight in in Edgbaston, Birmingham, as police investigate potential connection with similar incident in London

Further allegations about Boris Johnson’s time in office continue to emerge

Specialist sexual assault units would be set up in every police force and domestic violence experts put in all 999 call centres under Labour proposals announced on Tuesday.

Home secretary previously accused police of ‘spending too much time on symbolic gestures’ on diversity

The chief executive of Refuge said there still appears to be a denial from the Metropolitan Police despite the findings of a damning report.

Policing by consent — the Peelian principle of earning and maintaining the respect and approval of the public — lies at the cornerstone of British law enforcement. It is admired and copied around the world. But the Metropolitan Police has, according to an excoriating report by Louise Casey, lost it.

Former Met Police officer Alice Vinten claims she experienced sexism throughout her 11-year career and even saw male colleagues sharing revenge porn of their girlfriends

Former home secretary says damning Casey report should be a moment for all police forces to ‘get their house in order’

Baroness Doreen Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered by racists in 1993, said the force, Britain’s largest, is “rotten to the core”.