Police Follow

The crisis over police corruption won’t go away. Revelations that a lorry-load of secret files detailing corruption was shredded have kept police chiefs in the spotlight. Former Met commissioners Lord Stevens and Lord Blair have been asked by the Home Affairs Select Committee how much they knew about the shredding.

The family of Cherry Groce has launched a petition demanding that legal aid be granted for an inquest into her death.

Some 227 boxes of missing legal documents relating to a South Wales Police corruption case that collapsed have been found at an RAF base.

A “lorry-load” of material relating to a corruption inquiry in the Metropolitan Police has been shredded.

The  Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is lacking in empathy, sensitivity and compassion. That’s not just the view of the left, it’s what the IPCC thinks about itself.

The police repeatedly tried to recruit informers to disrupt the campaigning of anti-fascists in Cambridge. 

The Police have dropped an attempt to block legal action by women who were duped into having relationships with undercover officers.

Key witnesses in the trial of Nicky Jacobs for the murder of PC Keith Blakelock received perks from police including payments, a court has heard.

Proposals to prosecute men who buy sex will not help women, says Sadie Robinson. In Sweden it seems to have driven prostitution underground

A review into police corruption in the original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation has put the establishment into crisis management mode.

In collaboration with the Justice for Christopher Alder campaign, the Northern Police Monitoring Project is hosting a free film screening of Death on Camera. A Q&A with Christopher’s sister, Janet Alder will follow.

A few days after detective sergeant John Davidson was questioned in the Macpherson inquiry in 1998, Doreen Lawrence made a statement.