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London’s Metropolitan Police has announced that it will begin deploying live facial recognition cameras to identify citizens across the capital, raising concerns over the invasive and often inaccurate technology.
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The Metropolitan Police Force, the U.K.’s leading police service serving London, has announced a range of digital transformation initiatives. Central to this is the service’s Windows XP migration.
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London's Metropolitan Police has been warned to stop using Windows XP or risk citizens' security. The force still has over 27,000 PCs running the outdated operating system and is using taxpayers' money to pay Microsoft for important updates and patches.
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London Metropolitan Police are appealing for help identifying a man who they wish to speak to in connection with the robbery of a blind man in Romford.
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In the United Kingdom, several journalists are pursuing legal action after finding that London's Metropolitan Police had secretively been monitoring their movements and behavior on a top secret database engineered to capture "domestic extremism."
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Former Manchester United and Leeds soccer star Eric Cantona has been arrested in London on suspicion of an assault. Officers from the Metropolitan Police made the arrest on Wednesday.
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In the wake of the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man in North London in 2011, armed police units in London will soon be required to wear body cameras.
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In the wake of the Mark Duggan lawful killing verdict, the Metropolitan Police have announced all firearm-wielding officers will be equipped with video cameras.
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This week, the Metropolitan Police settled with the family of Ian Tomlinson. They have yet to properly face the music for allowing an alleged rapist to commit a double murder.
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The police are supposed to be there to protect us. This week they've been in the news for doing anything but: spying on victims, sexual assault, and shooting an unarmed man dead.
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London may be one of the world's major financial centres, but it is also a haven for predators of the worst possible sort, according to the Metropolitan Police.
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London Metropolitan Police announced yesterday that a man had been arrested the day after Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered after making threats to kill British Royal, Prince Harry.
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Britain First had given the Metropolitan Police until Wednesday 6pm to arrest the anti-British, Muslim extremist Anjem Choudary. The deadline has now passed and Choudary is not thought to have been arrested, so Britain First have launched a manhunt.
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Twenty years ago today, her son was murdered by a street gang. Doreen Lawrence has never forgotten that, and she has never allowed the Metropolitan Police to forget it either.
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Victims of unsolved crimes in the London borough of Barnet are receiving bunches of flowers, seemingly as an apology from the cops who couldn't solve said crimes.
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Kevin Hutchinson-Foster has been given an eleven year gaol sentence for supplying a gun to Mark Duggan. His will almost certainly be the only conviction resulting from this case.
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London’s Metropolitan Police have confirmed that a man was disabled with a taser outside the Queen’s residence, Buckingham Palace, in London. The man is reported to have broken through a cordon and held a knife to his throat.
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Stuart Lawrence, brother of Stephen Lawrence, a student killed by a group of white youths in London in 1993, is suing Scotland Yard for discrimination. He says police have stopped him 25 times in "recent times" for no reasons beside the color of his skin.
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Allegations of sexual abuse levelled against the late DJ and TV presenter Sir Jimmy Savile are to be assessed by Britain’s Metropolitan Police (the Met).
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An openly gay police officer, Richard Hendron, has launched High Court legal action against London’s Metropolitan Police, claiming he was forced out of his job following an “unlawful” arrest by two special constables.
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The execution of Mark Duggan on August 4 last year was the catalyst for the worst riots in these islands in living memory. This BBC documentary talks to the people involved.
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The 2012 Olympics has attracted spectators and tourists to the capital from all over the world. It has also attracted parasites to batten off them.
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As of yesterday, the Metropolitan Police had arrested 3 people for impersonating police officers and 29 for touting tickets in connection with the London Olympics.
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For years, Britain's politically correct police have targeted 'racists' as easy marks. Now, they are turning on themselves as two of them face charges under the 'Public Order Act'.
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London police have made arrests and used pepper spray against the “Critical Mass” cycle ride, as the British capital kicks off the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Games. (Updated).
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A new study has shown that UK police are 37 times more likely to stop and search a black person than a white person. The study said the fact that arrest rates are similar for black and white Britons raises questions about how police use power.
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Edinburgh police may well be selling off their TARDIS-style police boxes, but their colleagues in Bournemouth are keen to re-introduce them.
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Tottenham Court Road in central London has been sealed off by Met Police after a man started throwing furniture items out of an office window in the busy street at around noon (0700EDT) on Friday.
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A report has warned London's Metropolitan Police that relationships with the media must appear not to be "partial or selective".
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The so-called Independent Police Complaints Commission has apparently been dragging its feet into the shooting dead of Mark Duggan. It may be that this delay is more than justified, for entirely sinister reasons.
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An image released by the Metropolitan Police in an appeal for information into the shooting of five year old Thusha Kamaleswaran. Metropolitan Police
The ultra-politically correct Sir Paul Condon was Police Commissioner at the time of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Creative Commons
Marcella Iosif, a professional pickpocket who was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment in March 2012. Metropolitan Police
A Metropolitan police van accelerates towards Trafalgar Square in London.
An image released by the Metropolitan Police in an appeal for information into the shooting of five year old Thusha Kamaleswaran. Metropolitan Police
Commander Ali Dizei in the Kings Road Chelsea on May 6, 2008. Dressed like you will never see him dressed again! Flickr
Azelle Rodney was shot dead in April 2005. Eight years later it was ruled he had been killed unlawfully.
An image released by the Metropolitan Police in an appeal for information into the shooting of five year old Thusha Kamaleswaran. Metropolitan Police
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