The Met - and its leadership - must change
Over the past few months, as the Metropolitan Police has been buffeted by waves of scandal and criticism, I have been thinking a lot...
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Over the past few months, as the Metropolitan Police has been buffeted by waves of scandal and criticism, I have been thinking a lot...
As a journalist I've covered thousands of stories. Many of them are forgotten about by the end of the week - sometimes I come across a...
Dominic Raab has his sights trained on the Parole Board. After announcing sweeping plans to reform prisons, victims services and human...
Here comes an early Christmas present from Boris Johnson. Just four months after his Beating Crime Plan, we are promised another slew of...
Here is the text of a speech I delivered at the CrimeStoppers annual dinner on November 17 2021. I have been reflecting on my career in...
What can we do about violent crime? The shocking killing of Sir David Amess is a terrible reminder of how precarious and precious life is...
Today, Lord Justice Fulford will sentence Wayne Couzens for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard. As he imposes the mandatory...
"There comes a time in any organisation when it becomes clear that it would benefit from new leadership and new clarity of purpose. I...
In June, the Metropolitan Police was declared to be “institutionally corrupt” by an independent Panel examining the murder in 1987 of the...
David Blunkett tried to do it; now Priti Patel is having a go. The current Home Secretary is revisiting an idea first developed 20 years...
The extraordinary case of Metropolitan police officer Robyn Williams is heading back to court, I've discovered. Scotland Yard has begun...
The headline screamed from the Times: “Priti Patel plans for migrants to be held in offshore hub”. Just 24 hours later, it was the...
When Theresa May announced that an independent panel would be set up to examine the case of Daniel Morgan I was sceptical about the value...
It all felt sadly, appallingly familiar. When the inquest jury concluded that failings by the police, probation and MI5 had contributed...
Did you guess it then? The revelation in the final, underwhelming, episode of season six of Line of Duty that “H” was DCI Ian Buckells...
Several years ago I began looking into a disturbing and complex case involving a school-teacher who’d been accused of extremely serious...
1. Vacancy at the Met? Dame Cressida Dick is unlikely to be offered an extension as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, according to a...
Is Priti Patel listening to her Ministers? It’s a serious question because the Under Secretary of State at her department, Chris Philp,...
It took just 90 minutes for the Court of Appeal to slam the door shut on Robyn Williams’s chance of clearing her name. The former...
Graham from Bushey started it. He was the caller whose question on a radio phone-in about the Metropolitan Police Commissioner set...