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...Senior police officers said they were working closely with organisers including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to ensure there was no disruption to Remembrance Day events, and had been tightening surveillance...
...Another officer at the scene said Falter’s presence was “antagonising”. Former home secretary Suella Braverman, seized on the footage to call for Rowley’s dismissal....
...“Wayne Couzens was never fit to be a police officer....
...The ratio of risk to reward is great,” said one of the patrol officers, against the din of background police radio chatter....
...vetting and investigations been more robust, he would never have become an officer in the first place....
...His view is widely shared in police ranks and among prison officers....
...He added that control measures to mitigate risks were “totally inadequate”, with only one compliance officer for every 1,600 employers licensed to sponsor migrant workers....
...However, the force was “fairly confident” that Sunday’s arrests had forestalled any disruption, and City of London police would also deploy officers in the area on Monday....
...Taylor said the Met would be deploying a further 1,000 officers to police planned pro-Palestinian protests in London on Saturday....
...The same person was later supplied to the prison in the more demanding role of an officer....
...The Met launched a vast vetting and review process of its nearly 45,000 officers and staff after the 2021 rape and murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, then a serving officer....
...“It was right to take action to make it easier for chief constables to remove officers who are not up to the job . . . right for the public and right for the majority of officers who do the job bravely and...
...Counter-terrorism officers were also assessing the risk of attacks in the capital but the “threat levels were not elevated at this time”, he added....
...Among the questions that they have demanded answers to is whether Kaba’s race influenced officers’ decision-making....
...Harvey Redgrave, home affairs lead at the Tony Blair Institute think-tank, said that if the recent recruitment of 20,000 police officers led to an increase in charge rates, the court system would not be...
...Sharon Thompson, a former housing officer who took over as Birmingham’s deputy council leader in May, said the authority had been “digging deep” to determine the scale of its liabilities....
...Ghassan Abu Sitta, a British-Palestinian surgeon treating injured survivors of bombings in Gaza, received an alarming call from London this week: counter-terrorism officers had visited his home....
...She added: “Only when police officers lose their jobs can the public have confidence that failure and incompetence will not be tolerated and that change will happen.”...
Former chief medical officer blames disinvestment for the lack of resilience in public health when Covid struck
...However, both Labour MPs and the Police Federation, the staff association representing officers, questioned the figures....
...The Essex inspectors found that elected members and senior officers in Thurrock council had initially tried to conceal the bad news “and avoid public scrutiny” after repeated failures both in its investment...
...Khan demanded to know why officers appeared not to know Republic had informed the police ahead of their protest....
...“Armed officers arrested a man at the scene on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving....
...He was subsequently arrested and marched away from the scene by police officers....
...“People have the right to expect that when they speak to a police officer, the information they disclose is handled responsibly,” he added....
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