More than 130 people were arrested on the opening day of the London Notting Hill carnival, police said, reporting that knife-wielding thugs, drug dealers, and sex attackers had descended on its traditionally peaceful ‘family day’.
London police have secured extra stop and search powers and deployed knife detection arches and extra armed officers equipped with acid attack kits for the Notting Hill Carnival, as homes and shops in the area board up fearing damage.
Two men were arrested Tuesday night after a shooting near Rayners Lane station in London which saw two injured, with Britains’ capital city seeing a total of four shooting incidents in just two days.
Police have welcomed the jailing of a drugs gang behind an “awful explosion” of Class A drugs in Whitechapel as an “incredible result” which will “severely disrupt the supply”.
Shots were fired outside a Westminster school and three people were injured in a shooting in Brent Monday, as the violent crime wave apparently gripping London continues apace.
A mother and daughter remain in intensive care in a London hospital after being savagely attacked with a hammer in what has been described as an unprovoked act of violence in New Eltham, south-east London on Sunday.
UK security services are investigating almost 700 live terror probes, Downing Street has revealed, as Theresa May described Tuesday’s apparent terror incident as an attack on “our precious values of tolerance and freedom”.
The man being held on suspicion of terrorism after the Westminster car attack on Tuesday has been named as Salih Khater.
A pair of violent thieves who used mopeds to “target elderly victims”, including a man in his 50s who was stabbed over a bible, has been jailed for 32 years amid London’s ongoing crime wave.
Police in Sadiq Khan’s London have used the Public Order Act to prevent a rally in support of U.S. President Donald Trump outside the American embassy, despite permitting a large, ill-tempered anti-Trump rally on Friday.
With just 3 percent of burglaries solved and many going uninvestigated, London’s police force has spent £20,000 designing a garden fortified with CCTV, spiky plants, and patches of gravel to deter criminals.
London police have arrested a man on suspicion of causing an explosion after a small blast at Southgate station caused a stampede, injuring five. The 23-year-old male was arrested Wednesday and held on suspicion of an act likely to cause an
Just four percent of robberies in England and Wales are solved by police, with the proportion of suspects who are caught and punished for all crimes more than halving in five years.
Two men described as 21st-century highwaymen and who went on a bloody rampage through the streets of London, killing one and brutally assaulting half a dozen more, have been jailed.
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.
Three people are in hospital Thursday after a triple shooting in south London Wednesday night, and the Metropolitan Police gang-crime unit has launched an investigation.
Police have arrested 25-year-old Rehan Kahn after the attempted murder of a one-year-old boy and his mother Monday evening sparked a national media appeal and manhunt. Khan handed himself into a West London police station Wednesday morning after his mugshot
A man has been arrested climbing the scaffolding around Big Ben as he was allegedly attempting to enter the Houses of Parliament.
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.
Britain has been told to scrap its “racialised” war on youth violence after an investigation accused the nation of breaching human rights law with police use of an anti-gangs database featuring predominantly black, male suspects. Amnesty International called on the
London’s Hackney Police have deleted a number of social media posts showing “weapons” confiscated during operations after they were derided for showing unusual items including a butter knife being taken in. Responding to a Breitbart London request for information on
London youth Shayhon Francis has been jailed for headbutting a 50-year-old police officer, biting off part of his ear, and stamping on his face.
Ten people suffered minor injuries when a bonfire exploded and sent a fireball into the gathered crowd at a Jewish festival in London, police say.
Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan’s London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon working to save victims of the capital’s surging violent crime wave has said.
The number of sexual offences committed against children in Sadiq Khan’s London has soared to 1,200 in the last year, new figures show.
Police forces in England and Wales have admitted losing track of hundreds of sex criminals including rapists, paedophiles, and groomers.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is setting his sights on the so-called “ethnic pay gap” while the capital is gripped by crime.
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.
Police officers responded to a “suspicious” envelope containing white powder delivered to Britain’s Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London Tuesday afternoon. A spokesman for the Commons said of the investigation: “The Police are currently investigating an incident on the Parliamentary
Rampant knife crime threatens the “very existence” of Notting Hill Carnival, a judge has said while sentencing two men for attacks at Europe’s biggest multicultural party.
Police constables in Sadiq Khan’s London are receiving devices designed for war zones so they can treat acid attack victims on the streets.
A senior Scotland Yard officer has called on the court system to back up the work of police by using the sentencing powers handed to them to their full extent, in an effort to make prison an actual deterrent to would-be offenders.
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, is set to hike council taxes for all residents of the city, claiming he is “left with no choice in order to help keep Londoners safe”.
Scotland Yard has announced a major review of rape and sexual assault investigations after two cases collapsed within a week amidst claims that police withheld vital evidence. The announcement that every live sex crime investigation on the books will be
Police in Walthamstow have issued e-fit images of suspects wanted in connection with two homophobic assaults on gay men who were told they were “not welcome” in the area.
LONDON (AP) – British police want to question two men who may have sparked a panic when they had an altercation on a busy subway platform at the heart of London’s Oxford Street shopping district.
The media must avoid some reporting on Islamist extremists as they could be helping to spread their ideology, the UK’s most senior terrorism police officer has claimed.
The latest crime figures for England and Wales which show violent crimes against the person surging have thrown the particular problems of the nation’s capital city into harsh light, as it reveals the city is now more dangerous than the once-notorious New York City.
London’s Metropolitan Police Force has said it will give up on investigating many instances of “low-level” crime such as shoplifting and vandalism, saying it is “not practical” to fight them in a time of cutbacks.
