Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick announced her RESIGNATION following A series of damaging controversies and THE recent ultimatum to reform the police from the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. Dame Cressida said she had “no choice” left but to … Continue reading Met Commissioner Cressida Dick Resigns
Black Policing in the UK SECTION: POLICE & CRIME The first Black police officer was John Kent (1805 – 20 July 1886) who was a British police constable at Maryport, later with the Carlisle City Police, he was the first … Continue reading Black Police in the UK – The Pioneer Force
Seventy five years ago this weekend the first ever emergency number system anywhere in the world came into being in London with the introduction of the 999 call – marking a sea-change in the way the public communicated with the Metropolitan Police. The MPS will be marking the anniversary by launching its first ever live twitter feed from one of its three central communications complexes (CCC) where ‘first contact’ operators answer tens of thousands of emergency calls every week. For twelve hours on Friday 29 June, the public will be able to get an understanding into the huge variety of … Continue reading 75 years of the 999 Emergency Number
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