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A policeman has been fired from the Cumbria force for gross misconduct after making a Facebook comment that was judged as likely to cause offence to Muslims.

British police are under “unsustainable” pressure due to the nation’s fight against mostly Islamist terror, the head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council has said.

The number of terrorism-related arrests in Britain has surged almost 70 per cent to a new record high, as the country’s security services grapple an unprecedented threat.

West Midlands Police has been accused of letting victims down, in a damning report which says it is failing to record tens of thousands of crimes including sexual assaults on children each year.

Police ‘Hate Crime Ambassador’ Sergeant Peter Allan has praised a complaint about toilet signs depicting a woman and baby, asserting that the ‘sexist’ imagery “should not be happening in 2017”.

Twelve men have been arrested as part of an investigation into rape and slavery in England. Appearing in court, one of the defendants used an interpreter due to his poor English.

The head of Scotland Yard’s anti-slavery police unit has warned that London is now a global hotspot for modern-day slavery with victims forced to work in the construction and hospitality industries. “Everyone realises now we’re never going to police our

After an apparent effort to discredit Sunday’s Unite Against Hate march, which resulted in the mainstream media claiming it was an English Defence League (EDL) event, Greater Manchester Police have clarified the “misunderstanding” after a number of their officers were caught out calling it an “EDL rally”.

The knife crime epidemic in London, where 11 teenagers have been stabbed to death since the beginning of the year, should be treated as a ‘mental health’ issue, Labour’s Chuka Umunna has said.

LONDON (AP) — London police early Wednesday arrested a 30-year-old man in east London in connection to the lethal attack on London Bridge and are searching his home.

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — British police investigating the Manchester Arena bombing have arrested a ninth man while continuing to search addresses associated with the bomber who killed 22 people. Eight other men are in custody in connection with Monday’s blast,

Northamptonshire Police have replaced the world-famous helmets traditionally worn by officers in Britain with ‘gender-neutral’ baseball caps after hearing that gender-specific hats were preventing LGBT people who consider themselves neither male nor female from joining the police service.

Knife crime has soared since Theresa May curbed police use of stop and search, a tactic that activists condemn as “racist” but which senior officers insist saves black lives.

A fund has been set up to help an 83-year-old farmer forced to spend £30,000 to fund his own defence after he was prosecuted for shooting a convicted burglar in the foot when he intruded on his isolated Yorkshire farm.

Father-of-two Faisal Bashir has called on police to do more to tackle hatred coming from Muslim communities after harassment drove him from his home when he left Islam.

Citing figures that show firefighters in England are 96 per cent white and 95 per cent male, a Home Office minister slammed fire services over a “woeful” lack of ‘diversity’.

(AP) – Detectives investigating the attempted murder of a policeman in Northern Ireland have made two more arrests.

Police in Britain tasered their own race relations advisor after mistaking him for a wanted man.

Lancashire Police has introduced a “Police with Pride” vehicle to their fleet, in the hope of encouraging more people to report ‘hate crimes’.

Christmas events across the UK are being guarded by armed officers, as police warn a terror assault is “highly likely” following the deadly attack in Berlin.

Bristol has stepped up police presence in the city centre to combat potential Islamophobia in the wake of the Berlin terror attack.

British police were forced to defend sending visibly armed officers to guard a Christmas market – days before the Berlin truck attack – after anti-gun members of the public and activists caused a social media backlash.

A Muslim hate preacher, who has called the Queen a terrorist was prosecuted for labeling a woman in tight jeans a “prostitute”, has launched a YouTube channel where he records himself confronting and abusing police.

The North Wales police and crime commissioner has backed a campaign aiming to put right wing papers out of business because of their reporting on mass-immigration and Brexit.

The leader of Pegida UK, Tommy Robinson, appeared in court today, successfully arguing against the imposition of a ‘Football Banning Order’ by Bedfordshire Police.

One of the UK’s largest police forces has said they “don’t have any barriers” to Muslim women wearing a burka on the job, and are “consider[ing]” introducing the full-face garment into their uniform.

A British police force has become the first in the country to record “misogyny” as a hate crime, potentially criminalising complimenting, texting, and catcalling women in some contexts. Nottinghamshire Police, who introduced the measures in partnership with Nottingham Women’s Centre,

Some Muslim parents would not speak out if their children went to Syria to fight with terrorists, according to a new study conducted in Birmingham. Muslim parents told academics they feared police would arrest family members who traveled to Syria. The

Police have charged Tommy Robinson, a PEGIDA UK organiser, with “inciting racial hatred against Muslims” after he was pictured with a flag with “Fuck ISIS” written on it, his lawyer has claimed. The lawyer alleged in a statement that an

A man has been arrested, detained and charged for wearing an “offensive” T-shirt, which police said caused people “distress”. The T-shirt mocked the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 Liverpool fans died, as “Gods [sic] way” of helping a pest control

LONDON (AP) — British police have been given more time to question four people in an investigation that is possibly linked to a key suspect in the deadly attacks in Paris and Brussels. Counterterrorism police on Saturday were given seven

British police are recording minor misdemeanours such as throwing a sock and “stealing” one spray from a bottle of perfume as crimes, contributing to surge in the country’s official crime rate. Due to government instruction that police must now record all

Britain is the new policeman of Europe and you, dear humble taxpayers, are footing the bill. Don’t believe me? Have a look at a few examples of what happens when a deficit in political will on the Continent means that this country

Plain packaging of cigarettes will put the police force under undue pressure by increasing the supply of counterfeit cigarettes on the market, a group of former policemen has warned. In a letter to the Telegraph, the 16 former senior officers