Metropolitan police - Hackney Citizen (Page 2)

Record shop's silent disco blocked due to risk of noise complaints

Plan opposed by Metropolitan Police after confusion around previous amplified events

Author: Hackney Citizen

Council casts doubt on ruling that race was 'not a factor' in Child Q incident

Police complaints body says sacked Child Q officers guilty of 'gross misconduct' but teenage girl's 'humiliating' strip-search was not prompted by her race

Author: Hackney Citizen

Council casts doubt on ruling that race was 'not a factor' in Child Q incident

Child Q: Two Met officers’ strip-search of 15-year-old Black girl at school was gross misconduct

'They failed to follow the policies that exist to ensure that children in these situations have appropriate protective measures in place'

Author: Hackney Citizen

Child Q: Two Met officers’ strip-search of 15-year-old Black girl at school was gross misconduct

Police launch murder probe after stabbing and gas explosion in Stoke Newington

Victim named as 46-year-old Annabel Rook, with man, 44, arrested following 'domestic-related incident'

Author: Hackney Citizen

Police launch murder probe after stabbing and gas explosion in Stoke Newington

Dalston councillor slams ‘discriminatory’ use of facial recognition

Green co-leader Zoë Garbett criticises police as data shows face scanners mostly used in boroughs with large Black populace

Author: Hackney Citizen

Dalston councillor slams ‘discriminatory’ use of facial recognition

Criminal investigation launched into Airbnb key worker home 'scandal', council says

Hackney Council and Peabody probing potential fraud over use of 'affordable' home billed for disabled key worker

Author: Hackney Citizen

Criminal investigation launched into Airbnb key worker home 'scandal', council says

Council reaffirms vow to 'help rebuild trust' in communities 'most affected by racism in policing' as Child X officers cleared

13-year-old black boy was 'rammed' off bike by police van and handcuffed for holding a water pistol in July 2023

Author: Hackney Citizen

Child Q review: School policing in Hackney set for major shake-up

Officers’ roles in schools to be redefined after notorious strip-search incident

Author: Joe Steen, Local Democracy Reporter

The Child Q scandal sparked protests in Hackney.

Police to propose new safer schools policy for Hackney in wake of Child Q review

The Met’s intervention in schools is still under the shadow of the strip-search scandal

Author: Joe Steen, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney councillors voice concern over potential rollout of live facial recognition

‘Any decision to deploy it would rest with the police’

Author: Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter

Police launch murder probe after man stabbed to death in Stoke Newington

Victim, thought to be in his fifties, was found with a knife wound on Northwold Road last night

Author: Hackney Citizen

Police launch murder probe after man stabbed to death in Stoke Newington

Hackney’s Deputy Speaker charged with sexually assaulting a child – just days after handing in his resignation

Lee Laudat-Scott, 48, appeared in court today charged with sexually assaulting a boy under the age of 13

Author: Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney’s Deputy Speaker charged with sexually assaulting a child – just days after handing in his resignation