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Violent crime recorded by police in England and Wales has risen by 19%. The number of homicides including murder and manslaughter has risen from 649 to 739 an increase of 14%, it is the highest total since 2007. Robbery went up by 17% as did the recorded sexual offences according to the Home Office data…
There is an ongoing security alert in Londonderry less than 48 hours after an explosion in the city centre on Saturday night. The alert on Circular Road in the Creggan area comes after reports of a vehicle being hijacked by three masked men shortly before 11:30 GMT Monday. Police said the men reportedly threw an object…
Violent crime on London’s Tube network has increased by more than 43% in the last three years. British Transport Police data showed there were 1,980 reported incidents between November 2015 and October 2016 compared with 2,838 between November 2017 and September 2018. King’s Cross St Pancras had the highest number of recorded offences. British Transport…
West Midlands Police is “failing victims” and not recording more than 16,600 violent crimes each year, watchdog has said. The force was rated inadequate by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services. Only 78.2% of violent crime and 89.2% of sexual offences were recorded and the force said it had made “substantial progress”….
A terror suspect who is arrested over a knife attack on three people in Manchester is detained under mental health laws. A 25-year-old is being held on suspicion of murder after the stabbing of three people on New Years Eve at Manchester Victoria railway station. Police said there was nothing that suggests others are involved….
Five boxes of police documents relating to the Guildford pub bombings were destroyed in error. The files were mistakenly destroyed by a Surrey Police contractor in 2016, a pre-inquest told. Surrey coroner, Richard Travers, is considering an application to resume an inquest into the deaths of five people killed in the IRA pub attacks in…
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