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Reporter @LBC / @LBCNews ▪️ British Journalism Award winner 2020 ▪️ Story tips: Fraser.Knight@global.com

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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Smoking-style warnings on social media backed by seven out of ten adults, LBC poll finds @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/smok...
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Smoking-style warnings on social media backed by seven out of ten adults, LBC poll finds
Seven in ten Brits would support the introduction of cigarette packet-style warnings on social media platforms, an LBC poll has found.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Four-fold increase in the number of child sexual abuse images discovered online ✍🏻 Chris Chambers www.lbc.co.uk/news/four-fo...
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Four-fold increase in the number of child sexual abuse images discovered online
LBC can reveal there's been a four-fold increase in the number of child sexual abuse images discovered online over the last twelve months.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Children exposed to psychological and ‘disturbingly real’ harm on metaverse, study warns ✍🏻 Guy Stewart www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusi...
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Children exposed to psychological and ‘disturbingly real’ harm on metaverse, study warns
Children are facing serious risks in the metaverse, including harassment, exposure to inappropriate content and psychological harm, a report shared exclusively with LBC revealed.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
LBC Investigates: What a 13-Year-Old Girl Sees on TikTok From makeup tutorials and dance challenges… to self-harm, eating disorders, and even suicide ideation ✍🏻 Henry Riley www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/lbc-...
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LBC Investigates: What a 13-Year-Old Girl Sees on TikTok
As part of LBC's Online Safety Day, we conducted an experiment to see exactly what kind of content a 13-year-old girl would be exposed to on TikTok. The results were eye-opening – and deeply concernin...
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Families of murdered Bristol teenagers slam YouTube and Snapchat over ‘torture’ of online rap videos, posted from behind bars. ✍🏻 Heather Cartwright / Connor Hand www.lbc.co.uk/crime/famili...
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Family of murdered Bristol teenager slams YouTube and Snapchat over ‘torture’ of online rap videos
The families of two murder victims have expressed their “disgust” at the failure of some of the world’s biggest tech sites to remove rap videos featuring their loved ones’ killers and glorifying their...
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
LBC is dedicating an entire day of programming and content to online safety today, to focus on some of the dangers and hold those in power to account. Here are some of the stories our reporters have found👇🏼
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
'We can’t be everywhere' Here's what spending a full response shift with the Met taught me about police cuts @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
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'We can’t be everywhere' - What a night with the Met taught me about police cuts
The police get a lot of criticism.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The arrest, at 6am in Dartford, came a week after another woman was charged with similar offences in North London. Investigators tell me it’s too soon to say if they’re linked. The 42 year-old in Kent is said to have sat the Life in the UK test for 12 people, in disguise.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
EXCL: A second woman in as many weeks has been arrested by immigration officers for allegedly wearing different wigs to sit the British Citizenship test for other people. Wigs, designer shoes, watches, bags and suspected false documents were seized in Kent this morning @lbc.co.uk
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
On police budgets, with forces continuing to announce huge gaps that need to be made up, the Home Secretary told LBC: “We do need efficiency savings and we recognise of course there are cost pressures and reserves have been run down in recent years”
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Yvette Cooper also confirmed LBC’s story that police will get more powers to tackle phone theft, by carrying out search warrants quicker. She’s meeting tech bosses today. “We need policing and tech companies working hand in hand” Story by @natashaclark.bsky.social www.lbc.co.uk/crime/police...
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Police will get extra powers to speed up search warrants in clampdown on soaring mobile phone thefts
Police will get extra powers to speed up search warrants in a bid to clamp down on soaring mobile phone theft, LBC can reveal.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Responding to comments by the counter terror chief that social media leads to youth violence like smoking does cancer, the Home Sec said she’s ‘really worried’ and nothing can be off the table in limiting its use for children. www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/soci...
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Dangers of social media for children 'like cancer risk of smoking', says counter-terrorism chief
Britain's head of counter-terrorism policing has called for Parliament to "explore" implementing age verification on social media sites as he compared the harm caused by social media to the "cancer" c...
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
As LBC also reveals the number of women caught with knives has trebled in a decade, Yvette Cooper says the figures are ‘stark’ and gave a warning that you’re more likely to become a victim. “It's dangerous, illegal, and it will just make violence worse” www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusi...
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Number of women caught carrying knives trebles in a decade
The number of women and girls caught carrying knives has trebled in the last decade, according to new LBC research, with a sharp increase since the rape and murder of Sarah Everard.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Home Secretary says she would support metal detecting knife arches in schools, to keep pupils safe after a stabbing in Sheffield this week. www.lbc.co.uk/politics/hom...
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Home Secretary backs knife arches in schools as she warns of 'growing violence' caused by social media
The Home Secretary has told LBC she would support schools bringing in knife arches to stop children from carrying blades.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was in the LBC studio this morning taking calls from listeners. Some key takeaways on knife crime, online safety, phone theft and police budgets 👇🏼 @lbc.co.uk
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Read more: 'My son is not evil': Mother of man who murdered police officer blames attack on 'autistic meltdown' - @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/news/my-son-...
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'My son is not evil': Mother of man who murdered police officer blames attack on 'autistic meltdown'
The mother of a man who was found guilty of murdering a police officer has told LBC that her son “is not evil” and that his actions were the result of an “autistic meltdown”.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“I didn't want my son to be an evil cop killer,” Louis de Zoysa’s mum tells LBC. “He's not evil. He didn't mean to do this and that gives me comfort.” Asked what her message to Matt Ratana’s family would be, she says: “I'm deeply sorry. I'm so sorry for their loss. I think about them every day.”
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Elizabeth de Zoysa tells LBC she’s concerned about her son - now 27 - in Belmarsh. “He's in a wheelchair. He's paralyzed on his right side. Belmarsh just doesn't have the capability to look after him." The prison service disputes that, saying it caters to all disabilities and prisoner needs.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Elizabeth de Zoysa tells LBC her son "can’t remember" why he killed Sgt Matt Ratana, while he was being detained in 2020. She adds that she genuinely believes he had an autistic meltdown - “he’s not evil”. A jury dismissed autism being a defence in de Zoysa's trial.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
On the murder of Matt Ratana - and the antique revolver her son used - the mum of Louis de Zoysa tells LBC: “School failed him, people bullied him and I believe he'd been intimidated by a gang. He'd always had a low level interest in guns and he bought a vintage one from an auction house."
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Speaking of the last time she saw him in prison, Elizabeth de Zoysa tells LBC her son “had holes in his shoes, his clothes had holes, his trousers were stained. It didn't look as though he'd washed or brushed his hair for weeks.“
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
NEW: Cop killer Louis de Zoysa ‘looks like a tramp’ as he serves whole life order at Belmarsh, his mum has told LBC. He was jailed after he killed Sgt Matt Ratana in Croydon in 2020. His mum says he still can’t string a sentence together after a brain injury from one of the bullets he shot.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Sweeping new powers, inspired by counter terrorism laws, are planned to tackle small boat crossings. They include a new offence for migrants who refuse help from authorities, endangering lives, and for people who research and plan crossings @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/news/border-...
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Border Force to be given 'counter-terrorism' powers in crackdown on small boats
Immigration authorities are to be given much stronger powers, inspired by those used to prevent terrorism, in an effort to tackle deadly small boat crossings in the English Channel.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The chancellor tells LBC flights can take off from a third runway at Heathrow within 10 years, with proposed changes to planning rules. ‘I want to see spades in the ground in this parliament,’ she says. Rachel Reeves says she ‘knows sustainable aviation and economic growth do go hand in hand’.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Essex Police to cut all PCSOs to balance budget as government still to reveal details of neighbourhood plan – to hire more PCSOs @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/news/essex-p...
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Police force to get rid of all support officers because of £5 million funding shortfall
Essex Police is set to cut all of its police community support officers as it warns of a £5 million gap in funding that it can’t fill.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
EXCL: Thousands of new prison places, to help ease overcrowding, have been held up by regulations designed to mitigate against water pollution. Luke Charters MP says ‘it’s a farce that we care more about PH levels than we do about victims’ www.lbc.co.uk/news/prison-...
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Green rules cause delays to thousands of new prison cells, as soaring jail population threatens fresh crisis
The creation of thousands of new prison spaces in England and Wales has been held up by environmental regulations, as capacity continues to be squeezed behind bars.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A 61 year old woman has been arrested, accused of sitting ‘Life in the UK’ tests for at least 14 people, to obtain leave to remain in the country - by using wigs to disguise herself. The Home Office has shared images, alleging she posed as both female and male applicants @lbc.co.uk
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
BREAKING: Southport murderer 18 year-old Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 52 years. The judge said if he’d been 18 when he carried out the attack, he would’ve been handed a whole life term, but ended saying “it’s highly likely he will never be released”.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
In August, just five months ago, the same inspectorate said the Met was failing in almost every area - and budget constraints could see officer numbers reduced further. But HMIC reckons enough progress has been made to take the force out of Engage phase. www.lbc.co.uk/news/met-pol...
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Met Police out of special measures after boosting performance despite 'failing in almost every area' just 5 months ago
The Metropolitan Police has been removed from special measures, following an improvement in its performance - despite the watchdog finding it was failing in most areas in August.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
London Mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan, says there is still more work to do for the Met, to fully rebuild trust among the public - after the scandals that contributed to putting the force in special measures in June 2022.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Sir Mark Rowley, who has only known his force in special measures since he became Commissioner, hails the work of his officers in the face of huge budget and resource constraints.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
BREAKING: The Metropolitan Police Service is out of special measures, after more than two and a half years. The inspectorate says improvements have been made to professional standards, investigations involving children and the prioritisation of the most dangerous crimes @lbc.co.uk
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Keir Starmer says ‘The Southport attack was extreme violence, clearly intended to terrorise. My concern is because it’s different to what we tend to consider as terrorism, it doesn’t fit within our framework and that is what has to change… before the conclusion of the inquiry’.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
‘No matter the boats it will rock; no matter the vested interests it will threaten, we will follow this inquiry wherever it goes,’ Keir Starmer promises, as he says there will be change. ‘This will be a line in the sand’
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Failures of institutions to stop Axel Rudakubana before he targeted a children’s dance class in Southport ‘leap from the page,’ Keir Starmer says. The Prime Minister defends not sharing information before now, warning it could’ve meant the teenager ‘walked away a free man’.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Keir Starmer says the law around terrorism may need to change, as he says the Southport attack ‘is a sign that terrorism has changed’. He points out that loners are carrying out attacks, inspired by terrorism, rather than being directed by terrorist organisations. He says a review is underway.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
BREAKING: Having not spoken in any court hearings to date, knife attacker Axel Rudakubana, 18, has pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court. He’s admitted all charges, including the murder of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed class in Southport @lbc.co.uk
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Police should consider investigating people who have threatened Labour MP Jess Phillips for terror offences, Jonathan Hall tells LBC. UK's terror watchdog: “The sort of threats and attacks on MPs can amount to terrorism... I hope that the authorities look as strongly as possible [at those people]."
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Last year, terror watchdog Jonathan Hall questioned how 'the system' would deal with disinformation from overseas, around elections. "We’re learning it now," he says on Elon Musk's statements, "and we’ll get better at ignoring or taking account of it without running around like headless chickens."
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
NEW: Elon Musk has "done the UK a favour" by getting so involved in our politics, the terror watchdog has told @lbc.co.uk Jonathan Hall says interventions from Elon Musk provide "a laboratory situation" for politicians to look at how we deal with statements by foreign, powerful people online.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
EXCL: UK spending £100 million on public inquiries every year, as calls grow for a fresh probe into grooming gangs. Analysis shows 27 have been announced since 2014, with 17 still ongoing. One key player from IICSA says an oversight body is needed @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk-spen...
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UK spending £100m on public inquiries per year as Tories force vote on grooming gangs probe
The UK has spent more than £100 million on public inquiries every year over the past decade, LBC analysis can reveal, as calls grow for a national probe into grooming gangs.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
One of the pedestrians hit by a car in London’s West End on Christmas Day has died in hospital. 25 year-old Aidan Chapman has been described as a loving, kind, funny soul who enriched everyone’s lives. A court will review the attempted murder charges brought against 30 y/o Anthony Gilheaney.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
‘Business as usual’ for police on Christmas Day as officers in Manchester make 124 arrests, charge a man with murder and stop a thief stealing money from a charity @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/news/gmp-pol...
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Man ‘caught red handed stealing’ charity tin on Christmas Day as Manchester cops make 124 arrests in ‘business as usual’
England’s biggest police force outside of London has told LBC it was “business as usual” for officers working on Christmas Day.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Oh my Christ!
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Hope you all have a very merry Christmas. I’ll still be popping up on air tomorrow morning and for some more of this week if you happen to be listening (the news never stops !!) but I’m excited to be with family and friends back in Scotland to celebrate. Truly the best time of the year 🥰🎄
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
EXCL: Five men have been questioned as suspects by police investigating the fatal crush at the O2 Academy Brixton. No charges have been brought yet, as this weekend marks two years since it happened. www.lbc.co.uk/news/brixton...
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Five men questioned by police over Brixton Academy crush as investigation continues two years on
LBC can reveal that five men have been questioned as suspects by police investigating a fatal crush at the O2 Academy Brixton, in South London, two years ago.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
‘Britain’s FBI’ says it has opened talks with China, as part of its bid to price people smuggling gangs out of their small boat Channel crossing business model. www.lbc.co.uk/news/britain...
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Britain's FBI ‘opens talks with China’ over small boats Channel crossings
Britain's equivalent to the FBI says it has "opened talks with China" over small boats crossing the English Channel.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Very good. There must be enough people here now to drown out your shouting?
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Dozens of people are being investigated over the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, police have revealed. But no prosecutions will be brought until at least 2027. Lord Arbuthnot has told @LBC the delay is a ‘slap in the face for subpostmasters’ www.lbc.co.uk/news/post-of...
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‘A slap in the face’: No prosecution over Post Office Horizon scandal until at least 2027
Police have warned that it could be another two years before anyone appears in court over potential criminal acts linked to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
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Fraser Knight @fraserknight.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
‘One step behind’ crime bosses: Met fury as force to cut 2,300 police due to £450m budget black hole www.lbc.co.uk/news/met-pol...
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‘One step behind’ crime bosses: Met fury as force to cut 2,300 police due to £450m budget black hole
The Met police will be forced to ‘scale back’ its ability to tackle serious violence and organised crime, Sir Mark Rowley admitted today as he proposed scrapping 2,300 officers to make up a £450m budg...
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