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The Metropolitan Police, also known as the Met, is the police force responsible for law enforcement in the Greater London area of the United Kingdom. It is one of the largest police forces in the world, and is the oldest police force in the country, having been founded in 1829. The Metropolitan Police are responsible for maintaining public order, preventing and detecting crime, and protecting the residents and visitors of London. The force is organized into several units, including specialist units that focus on specific types of crime and policing activities. The Metropolitan Police are accountable to the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
County lines is a term used to describe drug dealing networks, often run using a single telephone line, or “deal” line. Drugs are transported from cities to rural and suburban areas.
On September 12th, 2022, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released their latest estimates and revealed that 50 million people worldwide are trapped in modern slavery with women (54%), children (1 in 4) and migrants most affected. Modern slavery Modern slavery is defined by Anti-slavery International as “the severe exploitation of other people for personal or…
Enver Tohti holding the letter he received from Transport for London (Picture: Susannah Ireland/Metro.co.uk) A former surgeon who claims he was forced to remove organs from an executed prisoner in China was put at risk of losing his licence to drive an Uber after speaking out. Enver Tohti Bughda, from Xinjiang, was granted asylum in…
Lawyers for actor Kevin Spacey are trying to bar an expert who testified in Ghislaine Maxwell‘s criminal sex trafficking trial from testifying about the credibility of Spacey’s accuser in a civil sexual assault trial scheduled to begin next week. A memorandum filed Monday in the Southern District of New York calls psychologist Lisa Rocchio‘s expected…
After more than a decade in state politics and an even longer career in the courtroom, Jason Frierson has a new boss: the federal government. “I’ve always been in some type of advocacy position,” Frierson, the newest U.S. attorney for the District of Nevada, said. “This is the first position within my legal practice where…
An alleged victim of organ harvesting, David Nwamini, has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to vacate its order for the release of his biometric information to Ike Ekweremadu. Mr Ekweremadu, a former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria and his wife, Beatrice, were arrested in the United Kingdom in June for allegedly trying to…
The UK government is yet to speak on the immunity regarding the former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu who was arrested alongside his wife.
Kayode Ajulo, a human rights lawyer, says not granting bail to Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy president of the senate, …
Britain’s Mo Farah, right, runs as a pacemaker during the London Marathon in London, England, October 4, 2020. [AP Photo] London’s Metropolitan Police Service has opened an investigation into four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah’s revelation that he was trafficked to the U.K. as a child. The inquiry comes after Farah, 39, said in a documentary…
A Met Police project to test facial recognition technology has been taking place in London over the last two days. The project – titled ‘Police Facial Recognition Research’ – has been running in and around Leicester Square and Covent Garden. This is according to a job advert posted on Mandy, which states the participants will…
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