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The Met Police SHOULD be disbanded, say hundreds of Mirror readers
Baroness Louise Casey says the Metropolitan Police should be abolished if it does not change its “rotten” culture - but what did Mirror readers think?
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Gang filmed 'celebrating in street' after 'rival was gunned down in the street'
Sharmake Mohamud was shot dead while walking along Green Lanes in Haringey, north London, in September 2021 and police don't know if he was the intended target
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Urgent warning as dogs fall ill and die hours after being walked in UK park
Two dogs are believed to have died after visiting Millers Park in South London, which has been closed as officers collect soil and pond samples to determine the cause of the mysterious illness
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One in four children in youth prisons and secure sites are Black, report shows
The damning findings, from the Children’s Commissioner, looked into the children aged 10 to 18 in youth custody in England and Wales as of December 2022
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Billionaire's son accused of raping and killing student confesses for first time
Farouk Abdulhak claims it was a 'sex accident gone wrong' in the violent death of Martine Magnussen, who was killed in London 14 years ago and found under rubble in a basement
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'Labour’s Scottish leader and Keir Starmer real winners of Sturgeon’s step-down'
Humza Yousaf is set to be Scotland’s first Muslim First Minister is a landmark moment - but a bitter battle for leadership has exposed damaging cracks in the SNP
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Madeleine McCann investigation set to get 'hundreds of thousands of pounds'
A new request for funding on the Madeleine McCann case totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds is set to be approved by the Home Office, according to new reports
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Tourist 'nearly killed by muggers in London' returns home 4 years later
Ben Finlan, who was reportedly attacked outside a bar in central London in 2018, has finally returned home to Canada after suffering multiple skull fractures and undergoing 65 surgeries
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Paedophile police officer who groomed girl, 14, into having sex with him jailed
Disgraced PC Hussain Chehab was jailed for five years after grooming a teenager into having sex with him and searching for explicit images of kids as young as two whilst working at a school
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Vanessa Feltz's ex denies being a serial cheater and begs for star's forgiveness
Vanessa Feltz and Ben Ofoedu split after 17 years. There were rumours that Ben had been cheating on the presenter, but he claims
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Police carried out 2,800 strip searches on children as young as 8 in four years
A harrowing report by Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, found black children are six times more likely to be strip searched. The youngest child strip searched between 2018 and mid-2022 was just eight
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Extent of rot in Met Police is what's shocks, and fixing it will take brains
Former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett says the force must "systematically rid the service of the corrosive individuals who are not just “bad-apples”, but something far more insidious"
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Katie Price says cops' alleged trolling over Harvey 'took her breath away'
Katie Price has spoken out after eight policemen face a gross misconduct inquiry after being accused of using a WhatsApp group to exchange jibes about Harvey, who has severe disabilities
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'Too many people don't feel safe on our streets after 13 years of Tory rule'
Writing exclusively for The Mirror, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says that too few crimes are investigated or solved, while serious violence has gone up and confidence in police has fallen
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Keir Starmer says ban on caning kids shows violence against women can be stopped
The Labour leader made a speech unveiling the party's plans to tackle crime. Policing has come under intense scrutiny this week following a damning report that found homophobic, racist and sexist culture within the Metropolitan Police
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Horror moment out-of-control dog attacks police horse as onlookers rush to help
Footage captured the terrifying moment an out-of-control dog attacked a police horse in Victoria Park as the owner has since claimed the American Bully is "so friendly" and was "intimidated" by the horse
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Men 'castrated on live stream with genitals cut off as paying audience watched'
Marius Gustavson is alleged to have been the ringleader in a wide-ranging conspiracy, involving up to 29 offences of extreme body modifications, the removal of body parts, the trade in body parts and the uploading of video
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'Response from Met chief to Casey report shows that nothing is going to change'
The 363-page document made for sickening reading. What took my breath away was the casual, everyday behaviour considered normal
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Police arrest same man over two separate fire attacks on victims near mosques
A man suffered facial burns after his jacket was set alight as he walked home from a mosque in Birmingham on Monday, just weeks after an 82-year-old was set on fire after leaving a mosque in London
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Terror cops probe links between fire attacks on victims in Birmingham and London
West Midlands Police said it is aware of a similar incident in the Ealing area of London and is working with the Metropolitan Police to see whether the incidents are linked
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Prince Harry's brutal Meghan Markle plot claims laid bare to brother William
Prince Harry and brother Prince William had an intimate conversation where the younger royal laid out accusations of people "plotting" against Meghan Markle
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Six shocking findings from bombshell Met Police review on 'broken' force
The Metropolitan Police has failed to protect the public from officers who abuse women, organisational changes have put women and children at greater risk and female officers and staff routinely experience sexism, Baroness Louise Caseyâs report said
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'Met Report shows terrible discrimination - disregarding ableism is no surprise'
Report found that 33 per cent of staff with a disability or long-term illness have experienced bullying. Disability was also the most recurring tribunal claim brought against the Met in recent years
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'This damning verdict is a devastating wake-up call for the Metropolitan Police'
Trouble is, we’ve been here before - with the Scarman Report in 1981 and the 1999 MacPherson inquiry which famously found the Met to be institutionally racist
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Murdered mum's family say she may still be alive if police took report seriously
Mum-of-three Mihrican 'Jan' Mustafa, 38, had been missing for nearly a year when her remains were found at a convicted sex offender's property, which police had knocked on months beforehand
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