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…

British police made more than 170 arrests during a three-day crackdown intended to take drugs and weapons off the streets. According to the Metropolitan Police, more than 1,200 officers from several police forces took part in the operation on Jan. 17–19, resulting in 179 arrests, the recovery of 30 knives and other weapons, 40 drug…

The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, has announced a drop in homicide rates and said London is a “fantastically safe” city. Rowley said: “London is a fantastically safe global city. Of course no city’s perfect, but if you look at crime rates … it’s a safe place to live and work and…

The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, has promised to root out “corrupting behaviours” which he said had gone “unchallenged,” following an independent review by Baroness Louise Casey, a former Victims’ Commissioner. In her interim report, which was published on Monday, Casey said: “We heard many examples of unacceptable behaviour going unchecked for…

The Metropolitan Police’s response to the public in general is “inadequate,” according to a report published on Thursday by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). The so-called PEEL report found the Met was answering 63.9 percent of 999 calls within 10 seconds—well below the national target of 90 percent—and found…

On his first day in the job the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, has received a letter from 14 campaign groups urging him to stop using facial recognition technology in London. Facial recognition software was first trialled in London in 2018, when Cressida Dick was commissioner, and has become increasingly popular…

The new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, is coming under pressure to do more to combat low-level crimes like theft from cars. The Telegraph published analysis of the latest Home Office data which suggested the Metropolitan Police solved just 271 out of 55,000 thefts from vehicles in London in 2021. That rate—0.5…