LONDON — The London Metropolitan Police will aim to hire 40 percent of new recruits from Black, Asian and other minority backgrounds by 2022, Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Friday, the centerpiece of a sweeping effort to make the city’s police forces more representative as it tries to address accusations of racism and discriminatory practices […]
The mayor of London has called for an urgent review of police traffic stops to identify any disproportionality relating to ethnicity. Sadiq Khan has asked for stop and search samples to be examined in the year-long road pilot scheme as part of a wider plan to address concerns over officer tactics affecting black Londoners, including […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. His hearse, with a bouquet that spelt Nobby, drove through Manchester yesterday on its way to a private cremation at Southern Cemetery. The former midfielder, 78, died on October 30 after battling […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. His hearse, with a bouquet that spelt Nobby, drove through Manchester yesterday on its way to a private cremation at Southern Cemetery. The former midfielder, 78, died on October 30 after battling […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The September figure is the worst since 2008 and more than 100 times higher than the 1,305 people waiting that long in the same month last year. The total number waiting for […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Sutcliffe, 74, has died in prison. He had contracted coronavirus at HMP Frankland and was being treated at the University Hospital of North Durham. The murderous monster, who is said to have […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Zara Tindall, 39, and Peter Phillips, 42, are Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest grandchildren and were raised outside the royal bubble thanks to their mother Princess Anne’s decision not to give them official […]
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe died this morning after turning down hospital treatment for coronavirus, it is understood. The 74-year-old serial killer would have spent his last moments alone, with no visitors allowed due to Covid-19 rules. Last week it emerged that Sutcliffe had tested positive for the disease after returning from a five night stay […]
Now is the time for forces to transform themselves and address racial inequality, the most senior Asian woman in the ranks of the police has said. Assistant chief constable Kerrin Wilson, the National Police Chiefs’ lead on race, said the end of austerity, a drive to recruit 20,000 more officers and the Black Lives Matter […]
LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – The UK summoned China’s ambassador to protest the disqualification of pro-democracy legislators in Hong Kong, a move it said breaks the joint agreement on political and legal conditions in the former British colony. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Beijing’s new law barring any Hong Kong lawmakers who don’t recognise Chinese sovereignty undermines […]