Child Q review: School policing in Hackney set for major shake-up
Officers’ roles in schools to be redefined after notorious strip-search incident
Metropolitan police
Police to propose new safer schools policy for Hackney in wake of Child Q review
The Met’s intervention in schools is still under the shadow of the strip-search scandal
Hackney councillors voice concern over potential rollout of live facial recognition
‘Any decision to deploy it would rest with the police’
Police launch murder probe after man stabbed to death in Stoke Newington
Victim, thought to be in his fifties, was found with a knife wound on Northwold Road last night
Hackney’s Deputy Speaker charged with sexually assaulting a child – just days after handing in his resignation
Lee Laudat-Scott, 48, appeared in court today charged with sexually assaulting a boy under the age of 13
Tom Dewey: Little could have been done to stop him becoming a councillor, concludes inquiry
‘Bail conditions are an agreement between the individual and the officer making bail to that person, and it’s no business of the council’s’
Woman, 42, shot dead in Hackney as police launch murder inquiry
A 20-year-old man and a boy, 16, are in hospital with gunshot wounds following incident in Lower Clapton
Child Q: Three police officers to face gross misconduct hearings over school strip-search
Child Q and her family welcome ruling but express ‘disappointment’ over speed of police watchdog’s investigation
Scotland Yard’s reform plan wins cross-party praise – with Mayor of London hailing it as an ‘important step’
Force to recruit 500 community support officers as it focuses on neighbourhood policing
‘Why was it me?’ Child Q still haunted by school strip-search, safeguarding expert reveals in hard-hitting report
Jim Gamble says experience is ‘still a weight on the child’s shoulders’ as he sets out raft of recommendations for tackling institutional racism
Child strip-searches: More incidents come to light after police ‘data error’
Scotland Yard admits mistakenly underreporting its use of the tactic – prompting London politician to demand a ‘guarantee of proper transparency’
Child Q: Laws allowing child strip-searches need ‘radical rethink’, says safeguarding expert
Jim Gamble tells councillors examining the response to the scandal that there is ‘no justification’ for the tactic
‘Wake-up call’: New report finds thousands of child strip-searches were carried out in past four years – more than half without appropriate adult
Children’s Commissioner’s review shows ‘police cannot be trusted with the devastating power’, says London politician
Casey Review: Hackney Council ‘appalled’ by Metropolitan Police’s systemic failings
‘Policing by consent at serious risk of collapse’
‘Not surprising’: Majority of Londoners hold negative view of the police, new polling finds
Leading thinktank says figures show ‘scale of reform needed to regain trust’
Child Q: Officers who strip-searched Black teenager now being investigated for gross misconduct
The Independent Office for Police Conduct says it has ‘uplifted the level of its investigation’