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Articles tagged with: Police
The Public Order Bill shows silencing dissent is the government’s number one priority right now
Home affairs
By Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
The Public Order Bill shows silencing dissent is the government’s number one priority right now
What’s the government’s first bill of the new Parliament? Something to tackle sky-high energy bills? Something to address the climate crisis? Something to address the NHS staffing crisis? Of course not.
Fraud may be our most common crime but policing has failed to catch up
Home affairs
By James Kirkup
Fraud may be our most common crime but policing has failed to catch up
Voters always worry about crime, and politicians always want to offer them reassurance. That usually means talking about police numbers, and often about “bobbies on the beat”. But such conversations fail to take account of the fact the nature of crime has changed.
The Yvette Cooper interview: 'Priti Patel's Home Office is failing'
Home affairs
By Sienna Rodgers
The Yvette Cooper interview: "Priti Patel's Home Office is failing"
Yvette Cooper is back on the Labour front bench and in a brief which is familiar territory. The shadow home secretary talks to Sienna Rodgers about how she hopes new leadership will change Labour’s fortunes – and why she would do a better job than Priti Patel
Veterans charity and police join forces to combat homelessness Partner content
Communities
By Veterans Aid
Veterans charity and police join forces to combat homelessness
The police strip-searched Child Q because they thought they could get away with it – those involved must face consequences
Home affairs
By Diane Abbott MP
The police strip-searched Child Q because they thought they could get away with it – those involved must face consequences
The strip search of a 15-year-old Hackney school girl has horrified people all over the country and nowhere more so than my constituency of Hackney.
Majority Of Late-Stage Terror Plots Foiled Last Year Were From Right Wing Extremists
Home affairs
Majority Of Late-Stage Terror Plots Foiled Last Year Were From Right Wing Extremists
The Head of Counter Terrorism Policing has warned of the growing threat posed by the extreme right-wing in the UK, with three out of four late stage disrupted terror plots last year relating to extreme right-wing terrorism.
A culture of misogyny and racism has existed in the Met police for too long – Cressida Dick must go
Home affairs
By Diane Abbott MP
A culture of misogyny and racism has existed in the Met police for too long – Cressida Dick must go
The culture of the Metropolitan police and what that means for the way they do the job has been the subject of public concern for many decades.
Will 2022 be a year of reckoning or reset for the Metropolitan Police?
Home affairs
By Laura Hutchinson
Will 2022 be a year of reckoning or reset for the Metropolitan Police?
Many police forces in England and Wales would have been glad to see the back of 2021, a year of changing Covid restrictions and bad press. None more so than the Metropolitan Police which, according to its commissioner, experienced some of the “most dreadful events” in its 190-year history.
Partygate is damaging the reputation of the civil service and integrity of the Union
Political parties
By Luke Tryl
Partygate is damaging the reputation of the civil service and integrity of the Union
Audiences with the Queen are rightly closely guarded affairs, so we don’t know how many Prime Ministers have had to offer The Palace an apology. But we do know Downing Street’s apology last week certainly wasn’t the first.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is a missed opportunity to help women and girls
Home affairs
By Sarah Jones MP
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is a missed opportunity to help women and girls
Priti Patel Suggests MPs Could Be Given Police Protection At Constituency Meetings Following David Amess Death
Home affairs
Priti Patel Suggests MPs Could Be Given Police Protection At Constituency Meetings Following David Amess Death
Priti Patel has suggested a range of new measures could be brought in to "close any gaps" around MPs' security following the fatal stabbing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess.
Women’s trust in the police can not be rebuilt until officers are held accountable for their own misconduct
Home affairs
By Jamie Klingler
Women’s trust in the police can not be rebuilt until officers are held accountable for their own misconduct
The Prime Minister refusing to make misogyny a hate crime and the Deputy Prime Minister, Dominic Raab, not even knowing the definition of the word, illustrates that tackling violence against women and girls is not a priority for this government.
Sarah Everard's murder must be a watershed moment to tackle serious systemic failings at the heart of the police
Home affairs
By Wendy Chamberlain MP
Sarah Everard's murder must be a watershed moment to tackle serious systemic failings at the heart of the police
At the time of my election in 2019, I viewed being a former police officer as a way of demonstrating that I was someone to be trusted. That trust has been seriously eroded and damaged by Sarah Everard's terrible murder.
Action, not warm words, is needed to stamp racism out of policing for once and for all
Home affairs
By Yvette Cooper MP
Action, not warm words, is needed to stamp racism out of policing for once and for all
Nearly four decades on from Stephen Lawrence’s racist murder, the police and government need to deliver urgent change so that community confidence and the long-standing principle of fairness in policing are not permanently undermined.
We need fundamental reforms to address the epidemic of violence against women
Home affairs
By Stella Creasy MP
We need fundamental reforms to address the epidemic of violence against women
The last Law Commission review of hate crime, published in 2014, still sits unused on a dusty shelf at the Ministry of Justice, so it is hard to have confidence this one will be any different.
Police Minister Claims Force Should Feel 'Valued' After Officers Say They're 'Sick Of Gimmicks'
Coronavirus
Police Minister Claims Force Should Feel "Valued" After Officers Say They're "Sick Of Gimmicks"
Kit Malthouse has said the government is “trying to put everything we can” behind police in England and Wales despite the Police Federation slating new crime proposals as “gimmicks”.
Years of austerity and deprivation has allowed crime to thrive while robbing children of their bright futures
Home affairs
By Sarah Owen MP
Years of austerity and deprivation has allowed crime to thrive while robbing children of their bright futures
Community policing and trust takes investment of both time and money, which are two things that our police forces have been starved of.
We must introduce buffer zones to stop the harassment of women outside abortion clinics
Home affairs
By Rupa Huq MP and Bernard Jenkin MP
We must introduce buffer zones to stop the harassment of women outside abortion clinics
Images of women having to walk past people holding out plastic babies and telling them they’re murderers do not belong in England.
Smarter sentencing is not harsher sentencing
Home affairs
By Nina Champion, Dr. Laura Janes, Dr. Kate Paradine, Dr. Jonathan Bild
Smarter sentencing is not harsher sentencing
The Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill will see people convicted of more serious offences spending a lot longer in prison, but there is no evidence to support this. Instead, government should improve education and other rehabilitative opportunities in prisons.
MPs Call For Six-Month Limit On Domestic Abuse Assault Prosecutions To Be Scrapped
Home affairs
MPs Call For Six-Month Limit On Domestic Abuse Assault Prosecutions To Be Scrapped
A cross-party group of MPs has proposed an amendment to the government’s policing bill which would give domestic abuse victims more time to bring assault charges against their abusers. 
MPs Say “Oppressive” Plans To Restrict Disruptive Protests Could Breach Human Rights Laws
Home affairs
MPs Say “Oppressive” Plans To Restrict Disruptive Protests Could Breach Human Rights Laws
MPs have urged the government to introduce explicit statutory protection for protests amid concerns that the upcoming Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill could breach human rights laws.
Exclusive: Hundreds Of Police Officers Accused Of Abusing Powers For Sexual Gain
Home affairs
Exclusive: Hundreds Of Police Officers Accused Of Abusing Powers For Sexual Gain
Hundreds of police officers are referred to the official police watchdog every year for abusing their powers for sexual gain, according to exclusive figures obtained by PoliticsHome.
New measures to tackle police corruption must be properly funded
Home affairs
By Laura Hutchinson
New measures to tackle police corruption must be properly funded
On 10 March 1987, a 37-year-old private detective named Daniel Morgan was found dead in the car park of a south London pub with an axe embedded in his head. No-one has ever been convicted of his murder, despite five separate investigations
Priti Patel Says 'Deeply Alarming' Daniel Morgan Report Finds 'Litany Of Mistakes' By Metropolitan Police
Home affairs
Priti Patel Says "Deeply Alarming" Daniel Morgan Report Finds "Litany Of Mistakes" By Metropolitan Police
Priti Patel has described a report into the police handling of the murder of Daniel Morgan as "deeply alarming" and said the failures had been "devastating" for his family.