Police have been accused of “ignoring crimes which aren’t easy to solve” after figures showed a steep rise in the number of cases UK forces close or “screen out” within 24 hours.
North Yorkshire Police has pulled an ad campaign that warned children not to become sexually exploited after accusations of ‘victim-blaming.’
Ministers have ruled out dropping the “reasonable grounds” requirement for stop and search following left-wing outcry that the tactic is “racist”, despite police pleas to widen the powers.
One of the UK’s most senior police officers has slammed the prioritisation of “hate crimes,” calling for officers to solve more burglaries and violent attacks by focusing on “core policing.”
UK police forces and units up and down the country have plastered their cars with poppies to commemorate our Armed Forces on the centenary of World War One.
UK police risk becoming “irrelevant” to many people as they fail to investigate huge numbers of reports and bring a “shockingly-low number of charges” for some crimes, despite the number of reported crimes rising steeply, MPs have said.
The government is looking to expand the number of “protected characteristics” for hate crimes to include men, old people, and Goths, as the number of recorded hate incidents in every category increased to a new record high.
Two young men have been arrested after four police officers were attacked in London, with two suffering stab wounds and one in hospital in a serious condition.
UK Police are too busy responding to trivial social media spats to tackle serious crime, the new head of the Police Federation has said, after years of forces encouraging “hate crime” reports for offensive comments.
British police officers are to be given ‘banter training’ – in order to teach them about the ‘fine line’ between being funny and offensive.
There has been a 39 percent surge in the number of terrorists brought to justice in the UK over just one year, hitting its highest level in a decade.
The Home Secretary is pushing to significantly expand police ‘stop and search’ after Theresa May rolled back the practice before a dramatic rise in violent crime.
A father of two jihadist terrorists killed in Syria has been jailed for 18 months after threatening to have his estranged wife shot if she gave evidence against him.
Police will soon adopt a raft of “enhanced inclusivity” measures including celebrating “culturally-focused events like Black History Month”, as forces across Britain are ordered to treat minority representation like a “critical incident”.
Suspected violent criminals under investigation are being released without bail conditions by British police, with the use of bail down 90 percent in a year.
A British police officer called a charity to ask if it were acceptable for an Iraqi man to date a 12-year-old girl because he wanted to be “culturally sensitive” when dealing with a suspected paedophile.
UK police pushed charges after less than one in 38 forced marriage reports, with just three convictions in the four years since it was made illegal in the UK.
More than 300 rape convictions will be reviewed after concerns about politically correct police being “hostile” to men and “deliberately” withholding evidence to send them to jail.
As homicide and violent crime – including knife, gun, and sex attacks – continue to rise in the UK, more than 90 percent of recorded crimes are not ending in a charge, new figures reveal.
Over half of people in the United Kingdom believe the police have lost control of the streets, a shock poll commissioned by a national newspaper has revealed.
A man has been arrested after two police officers suffered “serious injuries” in the neck and arm after an alleged knife attack at a house in Scotland, sparking a large-scale emergency operation.
A highly decorated police officer has won nearly £900,000 from London police after he was driven out of his job by a female boss on a witch hunt to eradicate perceived “macho” culture.
Police are regularly withholding critical evidence in criminal cases where it might undermine their case, and some officers are ‘trained’ in the technique, which could be leading to miscarriages of justice.
As forces in Britain declare tackling so-called hate crime a “priority”, the police watchdog has released a report revealing officers are taking days to respond to emergency calls.
Tackling online hate crime in Scotland will be a “priority”, the nation’s police have announced, revealing that almost 1,000 files on children aged between 11 and 15 were created last year.
Shoplifting and reports of theft in shops have almost doubled in just twelve months, new figures show, with police blamed for ignoring physical crimes as they focus on “hate crime” and online comments.
Three police officers have come forward to reveal how cases against Telford rape gang members were allegedly dropped because pursuing court orders was considered “too much hassle”.
Police officers investigating the Telford grooming gang scandal, possibly the largest in UK history, were sent an internal memo telling them “in most cases the sex is consensual”.
People in Britain are now living in a “post-freedom of speech era”, anti-Islamisation activist Tommy Robinson has said, in a video alleging police forced him to leave Hyde Park.
Police forces in England and Wales have admitted losing track of hundreds of sex criminals including rapists, paedophiles, and groomers.
The UK is facing a serious threat from “far right” terrorists, the country’s top counterterrorism official has said, whilst demanding the children of “extremists” are removed from their parents.
Police have arrested and detained a woman in Stoke-on-Trent after a rude note was reportedly left on an ambulance in the town.
Crime figures released this week revealed that fatal stabbings in England and Wales are at the highest level since 2010-2011, while rapes at knifepoint rose by 23 per cent in the past year.
Police should reconsider their policy of always and automatically believing rape accusers, Sara Thornton, the head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, has said.
Scotland Yard has announced a major review of rape and sexual assault investigations after two cases collapsed within a week amidst claims that police withheld vital evidence. The announcement that every live sex crime investigation on the books will be
Police have revealed that Britain is one of the world’s worst countries on earth for acid attacks, with more than 800 now recorded each year.
Wolf-whistling and making comments perceived as sexist could become hate crimes in London, police have said.
A woman has been charged with grievous bodily harm after two policemen were stabbed in what was described as a “serious incident” in Essex.
Police are “letting [suspects] off with a warning and hoping for the best” because they can’t cope with the scale of the crime problem, a senior officer has warned. Since 2010, the number of custody cells has dropped by as
Police and intelligence agencies have been told to more closely monitor the 20,000 jihadist sympathisers and former terror suspects in the UK to help stop future attacks.