Handful of cases may be investigated, such as claims for mortgages that were already paid off Senior police and prosecutors have announced they will not launch criminal investigations into more than 100 MPs over their apparent abuse of parliamentary expenses. The Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan police said today that after examining "numerous cases" they found there was no prospect ...

Hot on the heels of recent stories about private security firms being paid to patrol our streets because the police don't feel inclined to deliver what the citizens want, the police establishment are now saying these companies are a worrying development: The Police Federation of England and Wales said there is "huge concern" over their powers and accountability. Former Metropolitan Police Com...

Commenting on the statement by Theresa May, the new Home Secretary, that she intends to push through plans for directly elected police commissioners, Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly policing spokesperson and a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority said: For ten years the Metropolitan Police Service has been accountable to Londoners through a police

The fact that a jury felt the police completely fabricated their evidence in the inquest in to Jean Charles de Menezes killing by the metropolitan police ought, in any decent society, to lead to the sacking, discipline and prosecution of those who have brought the name of the Metropolitan Police in to disrepute. Seventeen witnesses with no axe to grind, stated the police lies when they said they s...

Here: The news that Tory Immigration spokesman Damian Green has been arrested by the Metropolian Police and held on suspicion of "conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office" shows that the Metropolitan Police have lost all sense of both their own role, and the role of politicians. I've been saying for years now that the police are more interested in protecting the state than protecting the...

Friday: Look, perhaps I'm not understanding this: "The Metropolitan Police force has rejected calls for an inquiry into errors made by, er, The Metropolitan Police" Since when was it up to the police to decide whether or not anyone should oversee their actions? Meanwhile, "Mr Frown has rejected calls for an early* inquiry into the Iraq war started by Lord Blairimort and paid for by, er, Mr Fr...

Today Boris Johnson has claimed that he has protected "police officers from cuts". This is completely untrue and at odds with the Metropolitan Police's own figures. The latest figures from the police have confirmed that Boris Johnson has cut 1,782 police officers in the last 18 months. * In March 2010 there were from 33,260 police officers in London; * By October 2011 there were just 31,478 p...

Paying for the politics of victimhood So the Metropolitan Black Police Association (MBPA) is now organising a recruitment boycott of the Met. They say: "The Metropolitan Black Police Association will, as of today, totally boycott all recruitment drives initiated by the Metropolitan Police Service to attract black and ethnic minority recruits and police staff... The boycott and our active discourag...

The police investigation into alleged expenses abuses by MPs and Lords has so far cost the taxpayer more than £500,000, the Metropolitan Police has disclosed.

This site has been developed by the Metropolitan Police Service in association with the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London. It provides the public and researchers with free access to crime mappings of London. Users can enter a postcode to retrieve maps of levels of crime in their neighbourhood. These enable comparison of trends in burglary, robbery and vehicle crime in the area ...