A planning application has been submitted by Thames Valley Police (TVP) to use the vacant Reading Gaol site as a temporary location for firearms training for its officers. Reading’s historic prison remains empty and unused at this time pending the development of plans for an education centre and associated community facilities, which were announced by […]
A Metropolitan Police firearms officer has been arrested on suspicion of rape and other offences. The officer, an inspector in the Met’s Specialist Firearms Command, was arrested last month and released on police bail, the Met said. He was taken into custody in front of shocked colleagues at a firearms training base, The Sun reported. […]
The full extent of Wayne Couzens’ offending has been laid bare in a devastating official report that revealed accusations of serial sexual abuse including rapes, before he used his status as a police officer to kidnap and murder Sarah Everard. It is said his offending going back nearly 20 years, includes two rapes, sexually assaulting […]
A senior female firearms officer has won more than £820,000 in a sex discrimination and harassment case after she was stripped down to her underwear during police training. Detective Inspector Rebecca Kalam was also forced to pose for a photoshoot while five months pregnant and told that she would fail the course if she did […]
Update: 29th November 2023 A police marksman who shot dead a gangster eight years ago will face a gross misconduct hearing “at the earliest opportunity”, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The Metropolitan Police firearms officer, known only as W80, could be sacked over the incident, despite being cleared of criminal wrongdoing. In December 2015, W80 shot […]
In January, the Home Secretary launched a review into the process of police officer dismissals, to ensure that the system is fair and effective at removing those officers who are not fit to serve. Following conclusion of that review, on 31 August, the government announced a series of reforms to strengthen the police disciplinary system, […]
The Met Commissioner has demanded an overhaul of the way police officers are treated by the justice system amid a growing row over the decision to charge a firearms specialist with murder. Sir Mark Rowley called for better legal protection for officers who used force while on duty and said there must be more clarity […]
See Update 25th September 2023 below: A Metropolitan Police officer charged with murdering unarmed Black man Chris Kaba has kept his name secret – for now. Mr Kaba died after he was shot in the head through the windscreen of the car he was driving in September 2022. The officer, identified only as NX121, appeared at Westminster […]
Current Metropolitan Police Commander Adrian Usher, who between 2016-2021 was Carrick’s boss as the head of the Royal Protection Squad in which Carrick served, insists he never met Carrick once during those five years – well he may come across Carrick during the next three years, as Usher has just been approved as the new […]