Chief Superintendent Dave Stringer, Head of Community Engagement for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), issued the following statement on 7th June, detailing the Met’s position on tackling hate crime in the capital. The Met is committed to tackling hate crime ...
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Labour pledges to restore police cuts
“UNACCEPTABLE” – that’s what Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has called the 20,000 cut in the number of police officers under the last two Tory Governments. Labour has pledged to provide 10,000 extra officers if it wins the General Election. Labour’s ...
Read More »Syed murder: police appeal for witnesses
POLICE CONTINUE to appeal for members of the public to come forward with information about the murder of Syed Jamanoor Islam, which took place on Tuesday 11th April in Wager Street, E3. Syed, a 20 year old who had previously ...
Read More »Ahmed condition serious; police seek three key suspects
BAD NEWS about Reker Ahmed’s condition has emerged after his brother and a friend visited him in hospital. Ahmed was attacked last Friday in Shrublands Road, Croydon, by a gang of eight to ten youths who had identified him as ...
Read More »Police clamp down on far right demo
TWO FAR RIGHT groups have chosen April Fool’s Day to air their racist views in central London. The English Defence League (EDL) and Britain First (BF) have joined forces to call a demonstration allegedly in response to the recent individual ...
Read More »Fatal crash in Dagenham: police seek information
ON THURSDAY, 30th March at approximately 8.30pm, a motor scooter collided with a pedestrian in Green Lanes, Dagenham, near the junction with Grafton Lane. The London Ambulance Service attended and the pedestrian, a 50 year old man, was pronounced dead ...
Read More »Police still seeking kidnap suspect
NEWHAM POLICE are still trying to trace Shahidul Islam, 22, so that they can speak to him about a kidnap, assault and robbery which took place last year. On 11th March 2016 a 19 year old man was kidnapped from Tollgate ...
Read More »Brave police officer foils robbery
POLICE SERGEANT Weeden’s courage has apprehended a street robbery suspect in Hackney. Sergeant Weeden was patrolling along Stoke Newington High Street near the junction with Tyson Street, N16, just after 5.30pm on Wednesday, 11th January. She saw a man conducting ...
Read More »Police hunt Romford cabbie assailant
Met police detectives from Havering have released a picture of a man they want to interview in an attempt to clear up an assault which took place over the summer. A minicab driver was seriously assaulted in the early hours ...
Read More »Storm over police funding Hillsborough cop’s legal fees
A row has broken out over the level of legal costs incurred by Chief Constable David Crompton during the re-opened inquests into the deaths of the Hillsborough victims. The lawyers charged over £2 million – and the costs were paid ...
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