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More than 1,000 knives were seized and 1,372 suspects have been arrested during a week long national knife crime crackdown. All of the police forces in England and Wales joined Operation Sceptre for a week of activity including weapons sweeps, knife amnesties and targeted stop and search – this was in March 2019. Officers carried…
Theresa May’s plans to launch a new communication network for emergency services which will cost £3.1 billion more than expected and will be three years late due to Home Office failings. According to the National Audit Office (NAO), the emergency services network which is to replace the existing system will cost £9.3 billion and will…
Greater Manchester Police chief constable said around 60% of crimes reported to the force are not fully investigated due to lack of resources. Greater Manchester Police’s Ian Hopkins said budget cuts mean officers have to prioritise more than ever. He said that about 6000 offences a day such as thefts from vehicles were being “screened…
Detective now hope to identify a man discovered in a woodland have released facial reconstruction. The skeletal remains were discovered in a woodland off the A419 near Cirencester by workmen in May 2018. Gloucestershire police said the body had been undiscovered for a long time and there were no suspicious circumstances of his death. …
According to figures obtained by children’s rights campaigners, half of the children shot by police with stun guns and a third of those restrained using spit hood in England are black or from other minority ethnic groups. In the first of nine months of last year police in England used electronic stun guns 839 times…
It could be 100 years before the Met Police has the ethnic mix as the population it serves, the forced said. Currents 14% of officers are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME) but records show 40.2% of Londoners identify as BAME. As a result Met Police says it wants to recruit 250 extra BAME…
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