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Topics: Criminology, Crime policy

  • Commissioner to warn policing is heading for failure without biggest overhaul in 50 years

    Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Mark Rowley, will today warn that British policing risks falling behind modern crime unless it undergoes the most significant reforms in more than half a century.
    In a major speech in Manchester alongside four other police chiefs, Sir Mark Rowley is expected to argue that the current 43-force model is increasingly unable to cope with the scale, comple

  • Tunnel-digging gang jailed for combined ten years after Met foils jewellery heist

    Thieves who were caught by Met officers attempting to tunnel their way into a jewellery shop in south London have been sentenced to a combined ten years and two months’ imprisonment.
    It follows an investigation that linked the organised crime group to a series of burglaries worth more than £700,000.
    Body-worn video captures emergency response officers arriving within minutes of reports of

  • Conditions imposed on student march on Wednesday, 7 October


    The Met has imposed robust conditions under the Public Order Act on a student demonstration in central London to prevent serious disruption to communities.
    Those taking part are expected to march from Kings College London in the Strand and end at University College London in Russell Square, Holborn, on Wednesday, 7 October.
    The conditions require the group to form up in a specific area,

  • Tunnel-digging gang pleads guilty after Met foils jewellery heist


    Thieves who were caught by Met officers attempting to tunnel their way into a jewellery shop in south London have pleaded guilty, after an investigation linked the organised crime group to a series of burglaries worth more than £700,000.

    Body-worn video captures emergency response officers arriving within minutes of reports of a suspected burglary on Mitcham Road, Tooting, at 03:12hrs o