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Criminal drug gangs in Britain have been dressing up children in key worker garb in order to avoid detection from the police during the national coronavirus lockdown.

Several peaceful protestors — including the brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn — were arrested at an anti-lockdown demonstration at Speakers’ Corner in London.

The George Floyd unrest spreading across the United States has crossed the Atlantic to Great Britain, with thousands of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other activists taking to the streets of London, with little apparent regard for the coronavirus regulations.

London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has arrested nearly 40 suspected online grooming paedophiles and have launched protective services to safeguard 138 children throughout the city.

Police were called to the scene in Ilford, London on Sunday evening after neighbours heard a woman screaming for help.

“Higher-harm” crimes committed with knives have risen 49 per cent in less than a decade and is now at a historic high, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

A man who spayed a female prison guard with urine while on remand has been imprisoned for “administering poison” in a first-of-its-kind conviction.

A man has been given a short prison sentence for coughing on police officers, threatening to spit on them, and saying he hoped to infect them with coronavirus and that the virus would spread to their children.

London’s Metropolitan Police Force is appealing to the public to report “hate crime related to the Covid-19 pandemic”.

British firefighters have been drafted in to the fight against coronavirus to deliver food and medicines, drive ambulances, and retrieve bodies.

Police in London were forced to use loudspeakers to disperse sunbathing parkgoers, who refused to abide by the nationwide lockdown measures introduced to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

British police say they have shot dead a man who was brandishing two knives near Trafalgar Square in central London.

The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is arguing for increased surveillance measures in the United Kingdom, including facial recognition, to combat crime and terrorism, however, critics fear the increased capabilities will negatively impact civil liberties. Dame Cressida Dick,

A man in his 70s was stabbed inside London Central Mosque, police believe the attack was not terror-related. 

At least three activists were arrested by police in London during the annual “Climate Strike”.

Left-wing activists who blocked traffic and marched Friday in Washington, DC, against the banks and financial institutions they say profit from “the climate crisis and immigrant detention” were met with loud noises from local construction workers.

Dozens of police response vehicles swarmed onto London Bridge Friday afternoon, amid reports of shots having been fired in the vicinity. 

Police are assessing allegations by Nigel Farage that Brexit Party candidates were approached by the Conservatives and offered peerages in the House of Lords.

The British security services have stepped up their surveillance of extremist suspects in the wake of the death of Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, in an effort to catch would-be revenge attacks.

The cost of policing protests in the UK by Extinction Rebellion, has cost the Metropolitan Police Service £37 million so far this year.

Green extremists protesters blocked bridges and road junctions in central London Monday as part of a large coordinated programme of civil unrest intended to force the government to agree to a series of demands on dismantling the economy and transforming Western society.

London Police say they’ve arrested 21 climate change activists over the past few days as the Extinction Rebellion group attempts to draw attention to global warming.

British police are standing by an off-duty officer who was filmed subduing a man suspected of theft, making threats, and carrying a knife on a crowded London Underground train by headbutting him to the floor.

If you fear Western Civilisation is falling apart and that all our institutions have been corrupted beyond measure by fashionable leftist idiocies and plain dumbed-down incompetence, then really, really don’t read the report published today by London’s Metropolitan Police.

The Inspectorate of Constabulary has said that some 35,000 police officers in England and Wales were insufficiently vetted and forces must do more to root out sexual predators from within their ranks who abuse their positions of power to assault vulnerable people.

The Metropolitan Police have concluded that allegations of criminality by the Leave.EU campaign during the European Union referendum do not meet “the criminal standard of proof” and the force will be taking “no further action” against it. 

Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu of the Metropolitan police force said that the “relentless” reporting on extremist attacks could be promoting terrorism.

London police were alerted to allegations Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking minors to the United Kingdom for sex, but they declined to conduct a “full investigation” and “the matter was closed”.

Graphic video of a violent machete attack on an unarmed police officer in London has emerged, as officers come forward to express concern over rising violence against colleagues.

Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu has said that British Muslims should not feel that they have to “assimilate” into British society and that “bullying, racism, [and] bigotry” could be to blame for some people being vulnerable to terror recruitment. 

Scotland Yard has agreed to pay a Christian preacher £2,500 ($3,095) for wrongful arrest and humiliating treatment after Metropolitan Police detained the man last February, stripped him of his Bible, handcuffed him, and drove him several miles away where they left him.

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired off another salvo at British critic Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, saying the city will “never have safe streets” under his “incompetent” leadership.

Donald Trump walked away from the Iran nuclear deal purely to spite Barack Obama, a leaked memo written by the UK’s former ambassador to Washington claims.

Theresa May has backed the UK’s ambassador to the U.S. by declaring her “full support” for the diplomat as police confirm they have been asked to begin a criminal investigation into damning diplomatic cable leaks.

The child born after pregnant 26-year-old Kelly Mary Fauvrelle was fatally stabbed in Croydon, south London, has died.

The unborn baby of a pregnant woman stabbed to death at her home in Croydon, south London, is in critical condition after being delivered by emergency services at the murder scene.