Whilst many Assembly Members focused their questions on members of the public visiting police stations to specifically report a crime, which was actually quite low and on the face of things appeared to justify the closure of the front counters to the public, @emmabest22 came in.

And this was just the start of the meeting 😳.

The National Police Wellbeing Service (NPWS) has published the results of the 2025 National Police Wellbeing Survey – the largest employee voice exercise for UK policing, with over 40,000 participants from 33 forces:

Met Police’s plans to close half its front desks to save money have been revealed in full ahead of what is expected to be a heated meeting at City Hall today:

Today at 10am if anyone wants to watch. There’s a link in their tweet:.

Link to the article:

Dame Angela Eagle, the border security and asylum minister, said he was wrong and any migrant that the Home Office deemed to have a “clearly unfounded” claim could be removed. The Home Office has yet to clarify whether spurious human rights claims would delay removal or whether.

Small boat migrants will be able to frustrate attempts to deport them to France under Sir Keir Starmer’s new returns deal by exploiting human rights laws, according to the terms of the treaty. Migrants will be ineligible for deportation if they have outstanding human rights

Members of the public have joined forces with our local policing teams to scrutinise recent stop-and-searches across Staffordshire. Of the 10 reviewed a total of 7 cases were deemed to be valid on reasonable grounds, by the majority of those on the panel:

Video (attached) of the moment police swooped on a gang of 6 samurai sword-wielding teenagers, suspected of carrying out 51 offences where mobile phones and luxury watches were snatched in just two months across east London:

A "fearless and inquisitive" retired police dog has died after a short illness. In 2021 Diesel and his handler, Sgt Jamie Edwards, were recognised at the National Service Dog Bravery and Achievement Awards for their courage:

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) reportedly plans to reduce the number of police station front counters across London from 37 to 19 and cut the number open 24 hours a day 7 days a week to 8. Having at least one 24/7 front counter in each of London's 32 boroughs was part of.

19yr old Shannon McQuillan & 21yr old Owen McFerran were both hit by a van after 3 PSNI officers, a NIAS paramedic & a trainee emergency technician left them alone at a bus shelter in the early hours of Jan 20, 2018:

RT @EssexPoliceUK: Well, we had shared the footage posted by @GBPolitcs to correct the record… But they seem to have deleted their post!….

RT @ES_News_: 🔴 THE MANCHESTER AIRPORT WHISTLEBLOWER HUNT 🔴. A police officer is under criminal investigation. Not for misconduct. But fo….

Well done @EssexPoliceUK for correcting this - a news channel has just reported on the incorrect version 🤨.

Thread - brave members of the public, including teenagers involved:.

A Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving, following an Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation. We began an investigation after we received a mandatory referral from the force relating to the

RT @ES_News_: 🔵 What’s Going Wrong? 🔵. The average length of service in UK policing is shrinking. Fewer officers are reaching retirement.….

A police chief says she was pressured by a government minister to retract a statement she made suggesting that “mass uncontrolled immigration” was one of the reasons behind rioting last summer. Donna Jones, the police and crime commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight,