As forces in Britain declare tackling so-called hate crime a “priority”, the police watchdog has released a report revealing officers are taking days to respond to emergency calls.
Tackling online hate crime in Scotland will be a “priority”, the nation’s police have announced, revealing that almost 1,000 files on children aged between 11 and 15 were created last year.
Shoplifting and reports of theft in shops have almost doubled in just twelve months, new figures show, with police blamed for ignoring physical crimes as they focus on “hate crime” and online comments.
Three police officers have come forward to reveal how cases against Telford rape gang members were allegedly dropped because pursuing court orders was considered “too much hassle”.
Police officers investigating the Telford grooming gang scandal, possibly the largest in UK history, were sent an internal memo telling them “in most cases the sex is consensual”.
People in Britain are now living in a “post-freedom of speech era”, anti-Islamisation activist Tommy Robinson has said, in a video alleging police forced him to leave Hyde Park.
Police forces in England and Wales have admitted losing track of hundreds of sex criminals including rapists, paedophiles, and groomers.
The UK is facing a serious threat from “far right” terrorists, the country’s top counterterrorism official has said, whilst demanding the children of “extremists” are removed from their parents.
Police have arrested and detained a woman in Stoke-on-Trent after a rude note was reportedly left on an ambulance in the town.
Crime figures released this week revealed that fatal stabbings in England and Wales are at the highest level since 2010-2011, while rapes at knifepoint rose by 23 per cent in the past year.
Police should reconsider their policy of always and automatically believing rape accusers, Sara Thornton, the head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, has said.
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 have revealed that Britain is one of the world’s worst countries on earth for acid attacks, with more than 800 now recorded each year.
Wolf-whistling and making comments perceived as sexist could become hate crimes in London, police have said.
A woman has been charged with grievous bodily harm after two policemen were stabbed in what was described as a “serious incident” in Essex.
Police are “letting [suspects] off with a warning and hoping for the best” because they can’t cope with the scale of the crime problem, a senior officer has warned. Since 2010, the number of custody cells has dropped by as
Police and intelligence agencies have been told to more closely monitor the 20,000 jihadist sympathisers and former terror suspects in the UK to help stop future attacks.
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.
A Muslim lobby group, which regularly works with police, MPs, and local government, promotes “extremism”, harbors anti-Semites, and gives a platform to Muslim grievance narratives and Islamist views, a report has found.
Campaigners have called for “urgent action” after government figures showed a 64 per cent rise in sexual grooming offences against children in just one year.
Official guidelines insist a hate crime must be driven by “hostility”, but when contacted, many UK forces are unable to give a definition of what they mean by “hostility” in the context of hate crimes.
Lincolnshire Police has been slammed for using public resources to produce a 12-minute video promoting Islam in the UK.
The British Transport Police are disadvantaging white, male applicants by excluding them from recruitment workshops.
A policeman has been fired from the Cumbria force for gross misconduct after making a Facebook comment that was judged as likely to cause offence to Muslims.
LONDON (AP) — London police say they’ve arrested a 65-year old woman contracted to work for a government department for violating the Official Secrets Act.
British police are under “unsustainable” pressure due to the nation’s fight against mostly Islamist terror, the head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council has said.
The number of terrorism-related arrests in Britain has surged almost 70 per cent to a new record high, as the country’s security services grapple an unprecedented threat.
West Midlands Police has been accused of letting victims down, in a damning report which says it is failing to record tens of thousands of crimes including sexual assaults on children each year.
Campaigners and politicians have expressed concern over the revelation that Hampshire Police handed more than 100 cautions for rape and other serious sexual offences in the past five years.
Police ‘Hate Crime Ambassador’ Sergeant Peter Allan has praised a complaint about toilet signs depicting a woman and baby, asserting that the ‘sexist’ imagery “should not be happening in 2017”.
Twelve men have been arrested as part of an investigation into rape and slavery in England. Appearing in court, one of the defendants used an interpreter due to his poor English.
The head of Scotland Yard’s anti-slavery police unit has warned that London is now a global hotspot for modern-day slavery with victims forced to work in the construction and hospitality industries. “Everyone realises now we’re never going to police our
LONDON (AP) — The number of people killed or presumed dead in the London high-rise fire has inched up to 80, but the final death toll may not be known for months, British police said at a grim briefing Wednesday.
After an apparent effort to discredit Sunday’s Unite Against Hate march, which resulted in the mainstream media claiming it was an English Defence League (EDL) event, Greater Manchester Police have clarified the “misunderstanding” after a number of their officers were caught out calling it an “EDL rally”.
The knife crime epidemic in London, where 11 teenagers have been stabbed to death since the beginning of the year, should be treated as a ‘mental health’ issue, Labour’s Chuka Umunna has said.
LONDON (AP) — London police early Wednesday arrested a 30-year-old man in east London in connection to the lethal attack on London Bridge and are searching his home.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — British police investigating the Manchester Arena bombing have arrested a ninth man while continuing to search addresses associated with the bomber who killed 22 people. Eight other men are in custody in connection with Monday’s blast,
Northamptonshire Police have replaced the world-famous helmets traditionally worn by officers in Britain with ‘gender-neutral’ baseball caps after hearing that gender-specific hats were preventing LGBT people who consider themselves neither male nor female from joining the police service.
Knife crime has soared since Theresa May curbed police use of stop and search, a tactic that activists condemn as “racist” but which senior officers insist saves black lives.
A fund has been set up to help an 83-year-old farmer forced to spend £30,000 to fund his own defence after he was prosecuted for shooting a convicted burglar in the foot when he intruded on his isolated Yorkshire farm.
