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Police have hit back at Labour Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott after she attacked officers for knocking dangerous moped criminals off their bikes, accusing them of acting “above the law.”

London Police have warned of dangerous motorbike and quad bike gangs setting off on huge Halloween “ride outs” to terrorise the capital’s population.

The number of times London’s Metropolitan Police resorted to using force has surged 79 percent in just months, as the capital’s crime wave takes hold.

Two young men have been arrested after four police officers were attacked in London, with two suffering stab wounds and one in hospital in a serious condition.

The family of PC Keith Palmer, who was killed by a man pledging allegiance to Islamic State, say they have been let down by Scotland Yard and “come below” terrorist Khalid Masood.

A man has been slain with a “large knife” in London after battling in the street with a man who had allegedly attempted to steal his phone.

A £1.7 million police investigation into electoral fraud during the 2014 Tower Hamlets mayoral election has concluded without sufficient evidence to charge anyone, Scotland Yard has said.

Over half of people in the United Kingdom believe the police have lost control of the streets, a shock poll commissioned by a national newspaper has revealed.

A highly decorated police officer has won nearly £900,000 from London police after he was driven out of his job by a female boss on a witch hunt to eradicate perceived “macho” culture.

More than 200 London police have conducted night raids targeting a notorious gang linked to killings, resulting in the seizure of a “sub-machine gun” and the detention of a 14-year-old boy.

People can be “charged” with an “offence” if their actions are within the law but their “reasons for doing it” are perceived as illegal hate by others, London police have said, before withdrawing the claim.

Thousands of suspected paedophiles and violent criminals could be allowed to walk free and not face justice as London police consider ignoring un-served warrants.

A Muslim man from East London has been jailed after using social media to promote Islamic State and Islamic extremist terror.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said the Metropolitan Police will “significantly increase” the use of stop and search powers in an attempt to crackdown on the city’s surging knife crime problem.

London’s Metropolitan Police force will not bother to investigate crimes if officers are required to watch CCTV for more than 20 minutes or there is no footage available.

The Metropolitan Police force “could be sitting on a Rotherham-style sexual grooming gang situation”, a London Assembly Member has claimed.

Wolf-whistling and making comments perceived as sexist could become hate crimes in London, police have said.

Transport for London (TfL) and London’s police are teaming up to encourage people to report “perceived” so-called “hate crimes”, specifically targeting Muslims by going into mosques.

A petition calling on the UK government to ban the terror group Hezbollah in its entirety has now passed 10,000 signatures and shows no sign of slowing down.

Healthy, middle-aged men who speak fluent English will be less of a priority for London police when they are the victims of violent crime, one of Scotland Yard’s most senior officers has suggested.

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.

Police have found “emerging links” between violent gang crime and the recent surge in acid and moped attacks across the London area.

Hackers may have breached a database and obtained the names of over 16,000 concealed carry permit holders in Florida. The state’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced the breach this week.