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Scotland Yard is under the spotlight after revealing 10 new complaints have been referred to the police watchdog.
Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey insisted “the Met does not tolerate racism” as he revealed on Thursday seven allegations had been reported after three officers were suspended over claims of offensive comments to colleagues.
It comes just days after the force vowed to get to the bottom of “very damaging” footage of one officer apparently racially abusing a man and another allegedly assaulting a teenage boy last summer.
Mackey warned there would be further referrals as he announced he had commissioned a review of complaints relating to alleged racism “to check the progress of ongoing cases”.
A total of five officers have been suspended over the fresh allegations.
“We have been working closely with the Independent Police Complaints Commission on this,” Mackey added outside New Scotland Yard.
“Today we have referred seven cases to the IPCC, in addition to the three cases already reported in the media. As the review continues there may be further referrals. All these cases were in the process of being considered by the MPS and five officers and staff had been, and still are, suspended.” Read the rest of this entry »
It will be “impossible” to tell how deep the level of fraud will go at this year’s Olympics until the event takes place, an official has told The Huffington Post UK.
There are already 103 known email scams identified by the Olympic organisers, as well as fake lotteries and prize draws.
Fake merchandise has been seized by councils in London, Birmingham, Coventry and other cities, and almost 100 arrests have been made by Scotland Yard in a pre-emptive strike at organised crime networks gearing up for the Games.
So before you get ready to hop out of the door in your Team GB T-shirt – clutching your tickets to the judo semis and a four-night stay at travel tavern – how sure are you that any of those things are exactly what they seem?
“When you actually think about the amount of people that may come to this country, we’re talking 200 plus nations, 17,000 athletes, 500,000 spectators a day. It’s supposed to be giving a £2.1bn boost to the economy. I can’t believe there won’t be someone out there who won’t want to make some money by scamming people,” John Peerless, the lead officer for scams at the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) told The Huffington Post UK.
“A lot of times people aren’t going to realise they’ve been scammed until the Olympics come along,” he said. “Determining the scale of the problem is virtually impossible.”
Anti-scam officials have cited a need for a more aggressive use of statistics and data to stop con artists in their tracks.
“We seem to be one step behind people,” Peerless added later. “The organised network don’t have organised processes and procedures to follow under Data Protection rules and things like that. Read the rest of this entry »
More than 900 serving police officers and community support officers have a criminal record, official figures show.
Forces across England and Wales employ policemen and women with convictions including burglary, causing death by careless driving, robbery, supplying drugs, domestic violence, forgery and perverting the course of justice.
Those with criminal records include senior officers, among them two detective chief inspectors and one chief inspector working for the Metropolitan Police.
At least 944 currently serving officers and police community support officers (PCSOs) have a conviction, according to figures released by 33 of the 43 forces in England and Wales in response to Freedom of Information requests.
Many forces could not provide details of criminal records dating from before their staff joined the police, meaning the true figure will be significantly higher.
The Metropolitan Police, Britain’s largest force, came top with 356 officers and 41 PCSOs with convictions.
It was followed by Kent Police (49), Devon and Cornwall Police (44), Essex Police (42), South Yorkshire Police (35), Hampshire Police (31) and West Midlands Police (27), although not all the figures are directly comparable.
Rupert Murdoch and his son James will appear before British
Parliament on Tuesday to be grilled by a special committee over evidence of phone hacking at the defunct tabloid News of the World.
The widening scandal has rocked the media, police and the public in Britain, where Murdoch owns many of the country’s largest newspapers. It is alleged that his now defunct News of the World hacked the phones of 4,000 people, from stars to crime victims, to get juicy stories — all with the encouragement of top editors at the paper and aided by some in the police force.
Rupert Murdoch made a rare apology in British newspapers over the weekend.
The elder Murdoch is a man “who meets power with power” and is not going to leave News Corp. willingly, biographer Michael Wolff told Bloomberg News. Wolff’s book, “The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch,” was published in 2008.
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