Britain to hire foreign top cops as constables
The UK government will unveil new reforms in the very near future, under which foreign police chiefs would be able to run British forces for the first time as constables. Home Secretary Theresa May...
View ArticlePolice Further Contradicted Over Mark Duggan Shooting
A pathologist’s account of the fatal injuries sustained by Mark Duggan do not match the story described by the police officers involved in his death, it emerged last week [1]. This latest contradiction...
View ArticleUN urges UK undercover police inquiry
A senior United Nations’ official has urged the British government to launch a public inquiry into impingements on the democratic rigths of activists by undercover police officers who have been...
View ArticleBritish police to vote for right to strike
British police officers are to start balloting on January 31 over the right to take industrial action, which they have been banned from for almost a century. The Police Federation said it would need...
View ArticlePolice must no longer investigate themselves: Judgement day for the IPCC
The body tasked with investigating complaints against the police is unable to do its job and has perilously little public trust, an influential committee of MPs said today. In a damning report which...
View ArticleBritish police to be grilled Yet Again! this time over dead kids ID stealing
The British Parliament has summoned a senior police chief to ask about conditions under which police was secretly authorized to steal identities of at least 80 children. The parliamentary committee...
View ArticleUK police accused of sex abuse cover-up
A former child protection officer says British police had threatened him to stop his investigations into child abuse by high-profile MPs in 1990. Chris Fay said he was threatened with a gun to his head...
View ArticleUndercover policing inquiry ordered after Stephen Lawrence review shocks...
Undercover policing by the Metropolitan police faces scrutiny from a judge-led inquiry, the home secretary has announced, in a major move revealing the true extent of ministers’ collapsed confidence in...
View ArticleUK watchdog condemns undercover policing
The UK’s police watchdog has condemned the force’s undercover operations, as a majority of undercover officers are working “off the books” and not on a national database. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of...
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