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Police officers who fail vetting to be automatically sacked under new rules

Measures will be introduced to Parliament on Wednesday which will make it a legal requirement for serving officers to pass vetting procedures.

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Serving female Metropolitan Police officer charged with sexually assaulting woman

PC Julie Bragg is due before Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday, Scotland Yard confirmed in a statement

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Mother of Jean Charles de Menezes says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama

Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by police in Stockwell underground station in July 2005.

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Family of student shot and stabbed to death in Peckham 10 years ago launch fresh appeal

Ola Raji, 21, was attacked and killed in Peckham, south London in 2015

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‘Drunk’ hit-run driver rams woman outside Wembley concert by reggae artist Alkaline

The motorist did not stop at the scene, Metropolitan Police officers said

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Police locate ‘high-risk’ patient who fled mental health facility in London

Vasile Coceban, 36, who travelled to Hyde Park was taken into custody on Thursday

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Thief caught after trying to steal luxury watch from plain clothes officers

Yakob Harket, 21, was apprehended in a Metropolitan Police crackdown operation in west London on October 10 last year.

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Metropolitan Police officer jailed for more than four years for rape

Pc Samuel McGregor, 33, had been found guilty of raping a woman at an address in London on May 11 2021 after a trial at Inner London Crown Court.

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Met Police officers dress up as Batman and Robin in ‘creative tactic’ to catch street scammers

Metropolitan Police officers apprehended scammers on Westminster Bridge dressed as Batman and Robin in February, after having to hatch "creative plans" to "deliver vengeance."

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Four jailed over ‘callous and shocking’ killing of taxi passenger

Anselam Senaj died at the scene despite the efforts of emergency services.

Evening Standard

Devastated families pay tribute to three teenagers killed in collision between car and bus near Heathrow

Star Tomkins, Harley Woods and Jimmy Savory were killed in the crash on Bedfont Road on 1 April

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Serving Met Police officer charged with rape

Pc Dion Arnold was charged with four counts of rape

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Met Police under fire over ‘discriminatory’ use of facial recognition cameras in London

Data shows the technology has been deployed mostly in boroughs with a higher-than-average Black population

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Axing Met’s Royal Parks police unit ‘a very bad decision’, say angry campaigners

Scotland Yard is having to slash 1,700 staff amid a £260 million budget shortfall

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Zhenhao Zou: More than 20 women come forward with allegations against jailed serial rapist PhD student

Zhenhao Zou is believed to be one of the UK’s most prolific sex offenders

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Another 23 women say they were raped by a Chinese PhD student feared to be one of Britain’s most prolific sexual predators

A string of survivors have come forward after serial rapist Zhenhao Zou, 28, was found guilty of drugging and abusing women

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23 people contact police tracing further potential victims of rapist PhD student

In March, Chinese PhD student Zhenhao Zou, 28, was convicted of 28 offences, including 11 rapes against 10 women.

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Moment two prolific shoplifters are caught in the act by Met Police officers

Donavan Soloman and Lee Moise targeted a Co-op store on Homerton High Street, Hackney

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Gary Glitter faces bankruptcy for failing to pay £500,000 compensation to sex abuse victim

The former Glam rock star remains in prison for sex crimes against girls in the 1970s and 1980s

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CCTV images released after clubber attacked on dancefloor in south London

Anyone with information is urged to contact police via 101

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‘Heroic’ Met Police officers hailed for arresting hammer attacker trying to kill two people in Leyton

PCs Aaron Prayter and Alfie Challis discovered the suspect had robbed a young woman earlier that day

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Police hunt driver as woman killed in hit-and-run crash near London school

The motorist had already driven away from Metropolitan Police officers prior to the collision

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Missing boy, 12, sparks urgent police search across London

Anyone with information about Joel’s whereabouts or to report sightings should call 101

Evening Standard

Museum burglars convicted of plot to murder £54m Securitas robber in his east London home

Paul Allen, now 47, was left paralysed for life after six shots were fired into his kitchen

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Counter terror tactics help Met Police catch 100 predators targeting women and girls

The Metropolitan Police says the V100 initiative has doubled the likelihood of them arresting the worst predators, but Sadiq Khan warned ‘there is still work to do’

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