Category archive for ‘Crime and Policing’ 
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Met experiments with social media networks
Met to The Met Police has launched channels on both YouTube and photo-sharing site Flickr as part of a pilot scheme intended to find the best ways of using social media to communic[...]
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Met collection goes on display
Met Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson officially opened 'The Met Collection', a collection of exhibits from the force's history. The exhibition will feature a rotating pool o[...]
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Multi borough clampdown on Wimbledon touts
A partnership which includes the Metropolitan Police, Merton and Wandsworth councils and the Lawn Tennis Association is promising action to tackle touts selling tickets at this yea[...]
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Bus crime ‘falls by 18 per cent’
Crime on London's bus network has fallen by 18 per cent according to figures announced by Mayor of London, Boris Johnson today (Monday 15th June). Publication of the figures came[...]
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London Police join National Tackling Drugs Week
Police officers from the Met and City of London Police are taking part in National Tackling Drugs Week, which starts today (8 June 2009). Drug and Alcohol Action Teams from across [...]
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Malthouse welcomes new Home Secretary’s appointment
Kit Malthouse, London's Deputy Mayor for Policing and Vice Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, has welcomed the appointed of Alan Johnson to the role of Home Secretary.
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Boris announces rape crisis centre funding
A month after opposition politicians on the London Assembly accused him of failing rape victims in the capital and breaking a key election promise, Boris Johnson has announced £1.[...]
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Met boss: Tamil protests have disrupted local policing
Policing demonstrations in Parliament Square by pro-Tamil supporters has cost in excess of £9m and has led to some pre-planned local operations “being cancelled or significantly[...]
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Met seizes £21m of criminal assets
£21m was seized from criminals during the 2008/09 financial year, new figures from the Metropolitan Police reveal today. Officers say the sum, which was obtained from 4787 indivi[...]
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Metropolitan Police Authority May meeting
The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) will meet at City Hall on Thursday, 28th May. This meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in the Chamber, at 10.00 a.m. The Aut[...]
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Met Police: ‘Blunt 2 has reduced knife crime’
Knife crime in London has been reduced by more than 11 percent as a result of the Met’s Operation Blunt 2, according to figures released to mark the first anniversary of the oper[...]
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Boiler room fraudsters jailed
Southwark Crown Court yesterday jailed four men for their involvement in a boiler room fraud that conned 500 UK investors, many of whom were elderly and vulnerable, out of more tha[...]
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MPA to meet Thursday 30 April 2009
A meeting of the Metropolitan Police Authority will be held in the Chamber, City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA on Thursday 30 April 2009 at 10.00 a.m. This meeting is ope[...]
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City Police warn of boiler room threat to UK economy
Boiler Room fraud - crimes where bogus stockbrokers cold-call investors and pressure them into buying worthless shares - could be costing the UK economy hundreds of millions of pou[...]