The leader of anti-monarchy campaign group Republic has been arrested along with five of his team members in the run-up to the coronation of King Charles III, the group said. Tens of thousands of people have gathered to cheer the royal procession and military parade for the coronation at London’s Westminster Abbey on Saturday, the…

Civil liberties campaigners have criticised the police for plans to use facial recognition software to scan crowds attending the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday. Emmanuelle Andrews, policy and campaigns manager at Liberty, said: “Facial recognition is a dystopian tool that violates our rights and threatens our liberty.” “We all have the right to…

A French publisher was arrested under the Terrorism Act as he arrived in the UK to attend the London Book Fair, his employer said. Ernest Moret, who works as a foreign rights manager for the radical left-wing Editions La Fabrique, was detained by police after arriving from Paris at St Pancras railway station on Monday…

Seven police forces have revealed details of how much they spend on informants, but have refused to provide details about how many individuals were on their payroll and whether any registered informants have been convicted of crimes. The Epoch Times made a request to 10 police forces and the National Crime Agency (NCA) under the…

Security minister Tom Tugendhat has said the “bigotry of low expectations” may be to blame for under-reporting of concerns about Islamist extremism to the UK government’s Prevent programme. Tugendhat told Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday that a kind of “soft bigotry” is enabling tolerance for Islamist extremism “in a way that there quite…

More than 200 people have been arrested and drugs worth more than £1 million have been seized during a week-long operation against county lines gangs in London. The Metropolitan Police said 222 people were arrested of which 105 were charged with a total of 223 offences between Feb. 27 and March 5. They said that…

A judge has sentenced murderer Wayne Couzens for a series of indecent exposures back in 2021 and said his ability to get away with the crimes could have emboldened him. The Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Stuart Cundy, apologised for the failure to apprehend him before he abducted, raped, and murdered Sarah Everard in March…

Police officers will no longer automatically be sent to respond to 999 calls involving people having mental health crises following an agreement supported by the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman. Under the National Partnership Agreement, people experiencing mental health issues will initially be attended to by medical professionals rather than the police. The plan is partly…

A UK-based Persian-language TV station has said it is moving its London studios to the United States, as a result of the growing threat from the Iranian regime and security advice from British police. The channel said in a statement on Feb. 18: “After a significant escalation in state-backed threats from Iran and advice from…

The Attorney General’s Office has confirmed the prison sentence handed out on Tuesday to serial rapist and former police officer David Carrick will be reviewed by the Court of Appeal. Carrick, 48, was jailed for life with a minimum tariff of 30 years after pleading guilty to 24 counts of rape and 25 other serious sexual…