Police

Chief constable retires after being told of investigation into alleged workplace relationships
Scott Chilton leaves post at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary with immediate effect after notice from IOPC
Jamie Grierson
07, Apr, 2025 @5:00 PM

Police officer will not face charges over e-bike crash that killed Cardiff teenagers
South Wales officer was driving van that followed Harvey Evans, 15, and Kyrees Sullivan, 16, in May 2023
Jamie Grierson
07, Apr, 2025 @2:23 PM

Northern Ireland’s public services ‘at risk of collapse’
Hospital waiting lists among worst in UK and children with special needs waiting a year for support, report finds
Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin
07, Apr, 2025 @4:00 AM

Dozens of families join plan for class action over UK police contact deaths
Lawsuit would be first of its kind against police officers, police chiefs and government departments
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent
06, Apr, 2025 @5:00 PM

Mental ill-health is losing its stigma, but it’s still used to blame victims of abuse
In the latest case of its type, the Met police failed a woman targeted by a predatory officer
Martha Gill
05, Apr, 2025 @4:00 PM

The week in audio: Today; Don’t Cross Kat; Dying for Sex; Inside Counter Terrorism Policing – review
Go-getting Anna Foster joins the BBC’s flagship show. Elsewhere, the story of a Brazilian scammer, a moving podcast about love and death, and an insider’s guide to tracking down terrorists
Miranda Sawyer
05, Apr, 2025 @4:00 PM

UK police chiefs draw up plans for national counter-terrorism force
Exclusive: Changes could mark biggest overhaul of policing since the 1960s
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent
05, Apr, 2025 @6:00 AM

What next for climate activism now Just Stop Oil is ‘hanging up the hi-vis’?
After three years, thousands of arrests and a state crackdown on protests, the group is ending direct action after a polarising campaign
Matthew Taylor and Damien Gayle
05, Apr, 2025 @5:00 AM

Fury among families after senior Hillsborough officers absolved by police watchdog
Campaigners denounce ‘cover-up of a cover-up’ as IOPC clears officers of scapegoating Liverpool supporters
David Conn and Peter Walker
03, Apr, 2025 @8:08 PM

Man shot dead by police at Milton Keynes station is named
Police watchdog says video footage shows David Joyce, 38, running towards officers with a knife
Jamie Grierson
03, Apr, 2025 @5:29 PM

Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot
It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissent, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
George Monbiot
03, Apr, 2025 @5:00 AM

Twenty-three more women contact Met police over serial rapist Zhenhao Zou
London PhD student convicted of 10 rapes may have 60 more victims, force fears
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent
01, Apr, 2025 @11:01 PM
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