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The police are on the defensive.  A new TV programme called The Met is trying to portray them as helpful, friendly and trustworthy.

Five police officers who changed their accounts of a stop and search on a man who later died have been cleared of misconduct.

Police and child abuse; Belfast equal marriage march; over 3 million are underemployed

Police attacked strikers and framed them during the 1984 Battle of Orgreave three months into the Great Miners' Strike. Officers covered up the actions at the highest level.

The video footage of a Texas police officer restraining and pulling a gun on black teenagers at a pool party has been seen by millions.

Short news stories from the past week on cops using tasers, deaths in custody, and the queen scrounging even more cash

Fresh inquests into the Hillsborough football disaster have heard more evidence relating to the movements of victims.

A US judge has acquitted a white cop of killing an unarmed black couple in Cleveland in 2012.

It was great to see PC Andrew Ott, the copper who knocked a protester’s tooth out, get sent to prison for eight months last week. It was even better to hear that he sobbed in the dock as he got sent down.

Kingsley Burrell’s family is demanding a public inquiry into his death after an inquest jury ruled that police restraint and neglect contributed to his death.

Sheku Ahmed Tejan Bayoh died in police custody in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on Sunday 3 May.

The Hillsborough inquests heard evidence relating to the youngest victim of the disaster, Jon-Paul Gilhooley, last week.