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Former police officer who used cadet scheme as 'grooming playground' found guilty of sexual assault
Pc Adnan Ali was arrested in 2018 following a complaint about inappropriate behaviour towards a 16-year-old boy.
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Video'End SARS': Nigeria in peril as global calls to cease police brutality rise
Protests calling for an end to police brutality in the West African country of Nigeria turned deadly after soldiers in Lagos opened fire on demonstrators Tuesday, killing at least 12 people. Soldiers from a police unit called the Special-Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, shot at protesters who had gathered in the Lekki toll gate area of Lagos, according to Amnesty International. “[There was] no provocation whatsoever,” Chioma Agwuegbo, an activist in Nigeria, told Yahoo News. “People were just singin
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Top cop urges police to focus on burglaries and violent crime rather than wolf whistling
Sara Thornton said core policing is ‘seriously stretched’.
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Policing could become 'irrelevant' as forces struggle to cope with rising crime, report warns
The report from the Commons Home Affairs Committee called for ministers to prioritise policing in the Autumn budget, or risk public safety.
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Number of police officers at lowest in 30 years
New figures show that police officer numbers have fallen to their lowest level in over 30 years. Official statistics show there were 123,142 officers across all ranks in England and Wales at the end of March this year. This was a fall of 0.7% on 2016, and the lowest number at the end of a financial year since comparable records began in 1996.
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London Bridge terror attack: Theresa May told police two years ago to ‘stop crying wolf’ over cuts
The Labour Party has accused Theresa May of not doing enough to help police fight against terror. In the aftermath of the London Bridge attack, a two-year-old video has re-emerged in which Mrs May tells police to ‘stop crying wolf’ about cuts to the force. At the annual Police Federation conference in Bournemouth in May 2015, Mrs May, who was then home secretary, gave a speech in which she accused the force of using ’scaremongering’ tactics.
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Scotland Yard begins recruiting detectives with no policing experience
Britain’s biggest police force is set to hire detectives with no previous police experience for the very first time. The Metropolitan Police are hoping that the radical new scheme will help plug the hole of 600 detectives they are said to need. Scotland Yard hopes to attract people with diverse skills and backgrounds, with plans to recruit 160 trainee detectives by this time next year.