Metropolitan Police

Inside the Met Police’s £750 million tech force and its battle to use AI thumbnail

Inside the Met Police’s £750 million tech force and its battle to use AI

May 28, 2026

A battle at the heart of London’s crime scene is brewing. But it’s not between gangs, it’s the Mayor and the Metropolitan Police butting heads. An ever-tech-savvy Scotland Yard has made a £50million deal with AI company Palantir to speed up criminal investigations. If a contract isn’t signed, the Met has warned it will have […]

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Teenager stabbed at ‘TikTok gathering’ in London’s Clapham Common

May 25, 2026

A 17-year-old has been stabbed and nine people have been arrested after a crowd of teenagers gathered in Clapham, south London. Met Police were called to Clapham Common on Friday as fighting broke out at the ‘unauthorised gathering’, which had been promoted on TikTok. Footage from the event shows people punching one another and attacking […]

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Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked thumbnail

Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked

May 22, 2026

Palantir has accused Sadiq Khan of “putting politics above public safety” after the London mayor blocked its £50m contract with the Metropolitan police in a move that has also led to tensions inside Labour over its involvement with the US tech company. Louis Mosley, who heads Palantir in the UK and Europe, accused Khan of […]

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Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir thumbnail

Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir

May 21, 2026

Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m Metropolitan police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir, sparking a bitter row between the London mayor and Scotland Yard. After the UK’s largest police force had agreed to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations, Khan intervened, citing “serious concerns” about how the […]

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Massive brawl between police and squatters breaks out at disused London warehouse

May 20, 2026

Police armed with batons and riot shields clashed with squatters of a disused north London warehouse after the owners attempted to change the locks.  Anstasia House near Green Lanes in Haringey has been a squat for seven years, with supportive neighbours supplying those living there with food and essentials. But on Monday morning, the building’s […]

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Disturbing new crimewave sweeping London that leaves victims unconscious

May 20, 2026

Rolex ripper gangs are drugging people on nights out to steal their luxury watches in a new disturbing crimewave to hit London. Organised gangs are giving victims drugs often used for sexual offending like rohypnol and GHB to spike victims and make them incapacitated. This happens to unsuspecting victims but also in cases where people […]

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Bus driver fighting for life after being attacked on Battersea Bridge

May 18, 2026

Sarah Hooper Published May 18, 2026 3:24pm Updated May 18, 2026 3:36pm A 64-year-old bus driver is in critical condition in hospital after being seriously assaulted on one of London’s busiest bridges. He was taken to hospital by air ambulance in the early hours of Monday, having been given first aid by police officers who […]

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‘Hero’ breaks up knife fight in London park with families watching on thumbnail

‘Hero’ breaks up knife fight in London park with families watching on

May 18, 2026

John Dunne Published May 18, 2026 1:34pm Updated May 18, 2026 2:22pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A man has been hailed a hero after jumping in to break up a fight between three teenagers armed with machetes. Dramatic footage shows one […]

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Search for man who threatened to behead ‘dirty Jews’ in London

May 16, 2026

Sorry, this video isn’t available any more. Police are hunting a man who threatened to behead ‘dirty Jews’ in a shocking antisemitic clip. Viral footage showed a man saying ‘f*** Israel’ and ‘big up Palestine’ before he claimed that Jews are ‘gonna (sic) get beheaded one-by-one’. He added: ‘Palestine will be free. But Israel, if […]

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Tens of thousands march through London for far-right and pro-Palestine protests – live thumbnail

Tens of thousands march through London for far-right and pro-Palestine protests – live

May 16, 2026

Police say 11 people arrested ‘for a variety of offences’ The Met said it has arrested 11 people “for a variety of offences” so far. It did not specify how many arrests were linked to the Unite the Kingdom event and the pro-Palestine march. Police said earlier today two men were arrested near Euston station […]

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