Police arrested one Iranian and three dual British-Iranian nationals on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service. The investigation relates to the suspected surveillance of locations and individuals linked to Jewish communities in London.
Lord Mandelson's lawyers said police officers arrested the former ambassador to the US at his London home on Monday because of a "baseless" suggestion he was planning to "take up permanent residence abroad".
We're dealing now with thousands of protests every year. We also know that the protest demand on the Met is a chronic abstraction for officers taken out of community policing. Money given to the Met from central Government to cover policing in the capital city was significantly underfunded for the amount of demand that they are currently dealing with.
Done it twice now they think I'm insane. I'm a boss, so I always find my way, I'm that guy, the boss of the UK. The wanted criminal, whose music video is seemingly recorded while he is sitting in the back of a car and holding an inflated balloon, boasts about his ability to evade capture and his status as a criminal figure.
The Commons speaker told MPs that he had shared the information with police in good faith during what the Guardian understands was a meeting with detectives investigating Mandelson on Monday. The former UK ambassador was arrested later that day on suspicion of misconduct in a public office in relation to allegations he passed on sensitive government information to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Google A man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing in south-west London. The Metropolitan Police and London Ambulance Service were called at 00:37 GMT on Sunday to The Broadway, Wimbledon where they found a man with stab wounds.
Former close protection officers to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor are being asked to consider carefully whether anything they saw or heard may be relevant to the Metropolitan police's review of the Epstein files, the force said.
A thief who was trying to evade police detection was found wedged behind a boiler during a house raid. Footage shared by the Metropolitan Police on Tuesday (10 February) shows officers making their way through a property when they noticed a limb sticking out from a cupboard. I think there's a dead body, one officer says. Upon opening the door, they discovered an individual tucked behind the boiler.
Quite frankly, the support that officers get is not good enough. New Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police The provisions currently in place don't help officers we see an average of 400-600 traumatic events in our careers, and there's no support for that. Chief officers need to be held to account and they need to do more. They rely on the Federation or the NHS to support officers and get them through their waiting lists. And it's just not acceptable.
Police are braced as protesters are to descend on central London, as concerns were raised over the proximity between pro-Palestine and UK Independence Party (UKIP) rallies. Two counter protests to the right-wing UKIP demo are planned in London tomorrow. Conditions mean each set of protesters are obliged to remain in areas defined by police, with pro-Palestinian demonstrators contained between Downing Street and Whitehall Place and Ukip supporters within the north terrace of Trafalgar Square.
