Met Police Chief: Return of Stop and Search Helped Cut London Crime
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, has said that the return of ‘stop and search’ has helped cut crime dramatically in London.
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, has said that the return of ‘stop and search’ has helped cut crime dramatically in London.
British police are to get new powers to stop and search potential suspects, particularly to discover if they are carrying deadly weapons, in a policy u-turn by political leaders who have curtailed it in the past for political reasons.
A 17-year-old teen has been slain outside a busy London Underground station just hours after a 15-year-old boy was killed just yards from his home as London’s violent crime wave continues.
The head of London police and other senior officers have backed calls for police to focus on real crimes rather than using resources recording “non-crime” hate incidents, offensive comments about women, and other “hate crimes.”
British police have launched a criminal investigation into allegations of anti-Semitic hate crimes within the opposition Labour Party.
One in five adults in England and Wales experienced crime last year whilst London has hit its highest ever level of knife crime, according to statistics.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has defended her deputy after he was roundly condemned for staying in his car with the doors locked during the Westminster terror attack.
How could 1,400 girls in the northern English town of Rotherham be groomed, tortured, trafficked and raped by Muslim gangs right under the noses of the police?
UKIP London Assembly member Peter Whittle raked Britain’s top police officer Cressida Dick over the coals for her “mealy-mouthed” description of radical Islamic terrorists as “so-called Islamist-inspired”.
The head of London police has been forced to deny parts of the capital are becoming “no-go areas” after two shocking recent incidents where the public was filmed cheering as officers were assaulted on the job.
UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Gerard Batten has criticised London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for checking if comparing burqas to letterboxes is a ‘hate crime’.
The UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid is ready to outlaw the Iran-sponsored Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah in its entirety, a senior Conservative source has said.
There have been three stabbings in broad daylight and seven arrests in dawn raids on an organised drug-trafficking gang in one 24-hour period in Sadiq Khan’s London.
Three people, including a 17-year-old, were violently stabbed over a two-hour period on Sunday in another day of violence for the British capital under Mayor Sadiq Khan.
London police chief Cressida Dick included victims of the 7/7 terror bombings in her figures when claiming murder rates had seen a steep decline.
Rapes are soaring in Britain’s multicultural capital under Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan — but police claim they have no idea what could be behind the increase.
The Parsons Green bucket bomb had a “large quantity of explosive” and was “packed with shrapnel”, Metropolitan Police Chief Cressida Dick has revealed.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said she will back police using ‘stop and search’ tactics after the massive surge in knife and acid attacks seen after the Tories rolled back the practice in 2014.
The commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police has said that the range of nationalities of the victims of last week’s terror attack on London Bridge proudly showcases the diverse cultural makeup of the city. “It’s desperately sad and poignant but among
Children as young as six are carrying knives as weapons on some housing estates in London, the city’s Police Commissioner has heard. At a meeting attended by relatives of knife crime and youth workers in Putney, south west London, Cressida