The Czech police tightened security measures with immediate effect on the night from Saturday to Sunday. The alert covers public places, shopping malls, means of transport and railway stations. The measures taken are said to be related to the suspicion of a possible terrorist attack.more
Families have described their devastation after a rise in dog attacks. The number of attacks recorded by police in England and Wales has risen by more than a third in the past five years, a BBC investigation found. Across the South West, owners are now calling for more to be done.more
Police should pay more attention to far-left extremists; and new laws are needed to restrict the right to protest, the UK Government's independent adviser on the prevention of political violence wrote in a report published yesterday.more
Hackers broke into the Europol Platform for Experts (EPE) website, which serves police officers from all over Europe to exchange information; now criminals are selling their loot on the Internet - reported the German weekly "Der Spiegel".more
Forty-five people were arrested in south London yesterday when a group of activists prevented the transfer of asylum seekers from a hotel to the barge 'Bibby Stockholm', moored in a port in southern England. Clashes with police ensued during the protest, which lasted for hours.more
Every week a new video seems to surface of bike riding thieves snatching mobile phones from pedestrians’ hands on the streets of London.
Phone thefts have more than doubled in some parts of London in recent years, according to new statistics from the Metropolitan Police.more
British police today announced that five men have been charged with hostile activities in favour of Russia. Two of them are British citizens. They will all face trial on 10 May.more
Discrimination against women, threats to judicial independence and excessive use of force by the police are examples of human rights violations in Poland, pointed out by the US Department of State in its report for 2023. The document contains an analysis of the situation in over 200 countries and regions of the world.more
Stalking Protection Orders will no longer need to reach the criminal threshold, as figures obtained under freedom of information laws by a victims' charity show some police forces have issued fewer than 10 per year.more
Serious violence fell substantially in England and Wales last year, a study has shown.
Despite increases in the two previous years, the overall trend is for a long-term decline in serious violence, Cardiff University researchers found.
The fall was driven by reductions among 18 to 30-year-olds, the work showed.more
Only four out of 10 people in England say they trust the police, with the UK’s biggest force, the Metropolitan police, getting the lowest confidence score, research has found.more
A woman who called 999 more than 2,000 times in a campaign of abuse against emergency workers has been jailed for 22 weeks. Sonia Nixon, 56, is one of the worst offenders in London for making nuisance emergency calls, and has been dubbed a “massive drain” on police resources.
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Scottish police are unable to cope with the deluge of reports of real and imagined hate crimes coming in after a new law on the matter came into force and may have to drop prosecutions for some other crimes, UK media report.more
Dutch police detained famous climate activist Greta Thunberg on Saturday along with a group of other demonstrators who were taking part in a protest and attempting to block the important A12 motorway leading to The Hague, AFP reported.more
The three suspects in the stabbing death of a journalist from the London-based Iran International TV station, which is critical of the authorities in Tehran, left the UK within hours of the attack, London's Metropolitan Police said today.more
Dog owners in London are most likely to have their pet stolen, with the capital recording the most thefts in the UK for the ninth year in a row.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 359 dog thefts in 2023, an analysis of police data by Direct Line Pet Insurance has revealed.more
Police forces are failing to record the ethnicity of many people reported missing, BBC analysis suggests. In almost a fifth of all missing persons incidents in England and Wales in 2022-23, there was either no ethnic group recorded or the individual's ethnicity was marked "unknown".more
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned police chiefs that "mob rule is replacing democratic rule" and officers must therefore protect politicians and democratic processes more robustly.more
Portuguese police detained a 36-year-old Pole in Lisbon, wanted on a European arrest warrant for leading a criminal group involved in drug smuggling to Poland. The man was tracked down by police bounty hunters from Silesia and passed the information on to colleagues from Portugal.more
In Sweden, 62,000 people have links to gangs, of which 14,000 are active members of criminal groups and 48,000 support them, including by enabling drug trafficking, according to a Swedish police report presented on Friday. This is more than twice as many as previously estimated.more
A Pole wanted for 20 years on an arrest warrant was detained in the UK, said Commissioner Aneta Sobieraj, spokeswoman for the Police Headquarters in Lodz. The 47-year-old man had been wanted since 2004 for illegal possession of weapons, extortion, robbery with a dangerous weapon and attempted murder.more
An unprecedented number of women are being investigated by police on suspicion of illegally ending a pregnancy, the BBC has been told.
Abortion provider MSI says it knows of up to 60 criminal inquiries in England and Wales since 2018, compared with almost zero before.more
Around 600 drivers seeking to overturn fines for speeding after a fake 50mph sign was placed on a dual carriageway in south east London will not have their penalties waived, the Metropolitan Police said.more
Every police force in England and Wales is being handed a share of £66 million to ramp up patrols in areas plagued by anti-social behaviour.
The Government funding is expected to allow each of the 43 forces to launch uniformed patrols for up to an estimated 20,000 hours a year in so-called “hotspot” areas where there are high levels of violence and disorder.more