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Sadiq Khan to increase council tax to help fund Met Police crackdown on phone thefts

AOL 15 Jan 2026
City Hall said that, if approved, the plans would allow it to offer a record £1.22 billion investment in policing ... Just over £1 billion would go to policing ...
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Met Police is forced into a grovelling apology after they ignored complaint from protestors over ...

The Daily Mail 14 Jan 2026
Scotland Yard has apologised for refusing to investigate Chinese officials accused of spying on demonstrators outside Beijing's mega-embassy in London ....
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Met Police apologise for not investigating Chinese officials 'spying on protesters' outside planned London mega-embassy

London Evening Standard 14 Jan 2026
Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the blunder demonstrates ‘how ill-prepared we are to deal with this major security threat’ ... .
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Met Police staff strike suspended for new pay offer vote

BBC News 13 Jan 2026
Met Police call handlers, technicians and office staff had been due to walk out for six days. .
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Hundreds of Met police officers and staff declare Freemasons membership

London Evening Standard 13 Jan 2026
Judge says ‘some 300 officers and staff have already declared their involvement in Masonic and other hierarchical associations’ ... .
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Hundreds from Met Police declare Freemasons links

BBC News 13 Jan 2026
Membership of the Freemasons or similar organisations became declarable in December ... .
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Met Police officer sacked for not disclosing arrest and gun possession probe

London Evening Standard 13 Jan 2026
PC Mohammad Bhatti claimed he didn’t remember being arrested after crashing his car in 2008 ... .
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Met Police officer cleared of GBH after Tasering suspect left in wheelchair

London Evening Standard 13 Jan 2026
PC Liam Newman, 31, was found not guilty of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm on Tuesday after incident in Redbridge ... .
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London murder rate falls to lowest per capita since records began, as Met Police chief ...

London Evening Standard 12 Jan 2026
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said facts ‘speak for themselves’ with homicides dropping 36 per cent in just six years ... .
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Met Police and Sadiq Khan hail lowest homicide rates since 2014

BBC News 12 Jan 2026
According to the latest data, there were 97 homicides in London in 2025 - the lowest figure since 2014. .
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London homicides at 11-year low, Met Police says

BBC News 12 Jan 2026
According to the latest data, there were 97 homicides in London in 2025 - the lowest figure since 2014 ... .
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Met Police officer sacked for assaulting neighbour in 'heated' parking row

London Evening Standard 12 Jan 2026
PC Daniel Traynor, 38, told his conduct ‘was wholly unbecoming of a police officer’ as he is dismissed by Met ... .
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Two Met Police officers spared jail after sexually assaulting woman during drunken night out at ...

AOL 12 Jan 2026
"You did not listen when I said stop," she told them, adding. "You continued to touch me time and time again." ... They were sacked from the Met's Central West Command Unit after admitting their assault ... .
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London murder rate falls to lowest in over a decade as Met Police chief hits ...

AOL 12 Jan 2026
And data from the Office for National Statistics suggests the capital accounted for nearly a third of all knife crime nationwide with 15,689 offences recorded in 12 months to June. Sir Mark said.
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