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• Police officers to march on London | Sandra Laville
  
  

  Rank and file officers protest over "cuts and privatisation" in strongest show of defiance available to the police

  Up to 20,000 rank and file police officers will march in London on Thursday in a protest at the cuts and "privatisation" of the service.

  The demonstration is the...
  
  

• The failures of Boris Johnson on serious youth violence
  
  

  I reported on Monday that the now former senior Greater London Authority officer who drew up Boris Johnson's initial Time for Action proposals for London's youth has described the Conservative mayor as having achieved "virtually nothing" in the struggle against serious youth violence....
  
  

• Boris Johnson is accused of 'malign neglect' of black Londoners' relationship with Met police
  
  

  The first strong public criticism from black community activists of Met commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe's recent anti-gang crime initiative derides the move as a "political hijacking" by mayor Boris Johnson and calls on members of the Operation Trident Independent Advisory Group (IAG) to resign in protest....
  
  

• Will the Met's new gang crime initiative prove to be a 'step change' for the better?
  
  

  The mayor's press release hails "a step change" in the way the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) tackles gang crime in London and a "new crack down" on the problem. Dozens of suspected gang members have been arrested in raids across the capital and...
  
  

• Brian Paddick on Tottenham, local policing and 'thick and stupid' attitudes
  
  

  In an interview with the BBC's Samira Ahmed broadcast on Sunday, Liberal Democrat London mayoral candidate Brian Paddick expressed concern that public confidence and trust in the police is breaking down. He gave the Met's use of stop and search as one...
  
  

• Revolving door at Scotland Yard keeps spinning
  
  

  Another departure of a senior Metropolitan police figure

  The revolving door at Scotland Yard keeps spinning, as more senior figures depart in what might start looking like an exodus.

  Commander David Zinzan, the top cop in south-east London, is understood to be the latest experienced figure to...
  
  

• Cardiff three corruption case fiasco
  
  

  Discovery of "missing" documents in biggest police corruption case - cock up or conspiracy?

  When Britain's biggest police corruption trial collapsed last month amid revelations that officers investigating their colleagues might have shredded evidence, the reverberations were shocking enough.

  But this week's announcement that the "missing" four...
  
  

• Police Commissioners: Time for an Ann Widdicombe recall?|Alan Travis
  
  

  Labour and Tories want to find candidates for next year's police commissioner elections but who is going to stand?

  Some stirrings of interest this week in who might stand as police and crime commissioners when they are elected to oversee police forces outside London next November.

  Labour's...
  
  

• Will the real @hogan howe stand up"?|Sandra Laville
  
  

  Who is behind fake twitter account of Metropolitan police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe

  Speculation is rife as to the identity of the spoof tweeter @hoganhowe.

  Tweeting since October 2, the "commissioner of the Metropolis" - 'not really', has attracted 427 followers including - for some reason...
  
  

• Serious youth violence up, reports Met chief. Boris says it's 'coming down'
  
  

  Here's an exchange that took place around 53 minutes into Wednesday's mayor's question time:

  James Cleverly AM (Con): "What is actually happening with serious youth violence in London?

  Boris Johnson: "Serious youth violence is, I'm pleased to say, is coming down."

  And here's what Metropolitan Police commissioner...