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Newham a top target of Met Police Live Facial Recognition

Newham was the second most-targeted London borough by Live Facial Recognition last year and is third so far in 2026,

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North London stop and searches surge in past year

Stop and searches in North London have increased by a quarter on average in the past year, analysis of Metropolitan

Four Police Officers wearing hi-vis jackets reading 'Metropolitan Police'.

Child strip searches in 2025 overwhelmingly drug-driven, reinforcing concerns over Met safeguarding

Roughly four in five child strip searches conducted by the Met in 2025 were for suspected drugs, which advocacy groups

Hundreds of Met officers and staff accused of sexual misconduct and domestic abuse remain employed

Nearly 700 Met police officers and staff are still serving, but off front-lines, despite facing ‘live’ allegations of sexual misconduct

Live facial recognition: 3.5 million faces scanned, Black Londoners still disproportionately flagged

In 2025, more than 3.5 million Londoners’ faces were scanned by the Metropolitan Police — resulting in just 1,010 arrests,

Jeremy Corbyn joins Tower Hamlets Unity Demo against racism and the far right

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joined the Tower Hamlets Unity Demo in Whitechapel, calling the event ‘historic’ after the Met

Growth in LGBTQ+ hate crimes call for better policing standards

In light of National Hate Crime Awareness Week, members of the LGBTQ+ community have grown increasingly concerned that the Met

Two-thirds of under-18 strip searches in London conducted in the north and east in 2025

The Metropolitan Police carried out 18 More Thorough Intimate Parts strip searches on under-18s this year so far, with two-thirds

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Woman convicted of murder following stabbing at child’s birthday party

A woman from Aldgate has been convicted of murder after stabbing a woman at a child’s birthday party. Hope Rowe,

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Two Hackney teenagers charged with Westfield furniture throw

Two teenagers have been charged following furniture being thrown off the top floor at Westfield Stratford. The boys who are

Six charged with membership of banned Kurdish militant group

Six people have been charged with being members of a proscribed terrorist group, the Met Police say.  Turkan Ozcan, 59,

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