The British government has unveiled new vetting standards for police after a string of damaging scandals.

In February, the UK charity- Inquest- found that black people are seven times more likely than white people to die after being restrained by the London Metropolitan Police.

The latest scandal to rock the Metropolitan Police came to the fore when Officer David Carrick pleaded guilty to tens of offenses, including rape, against twelve women over a period of nearly two decades.

A serving London police officer admits carrying out 24 counts of rape in a near two decade-long campaign of abuse against women.

The police in London have released CCTV images of 13 people they want to identify in connection with riots near the Iranian embassy in the British capital earlier this week.

Violent rioters who assembled in front of the Islamic Center of England in north-west London on Sunday faced stiff resistance from the supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran who joined the police to foil the unruly demonstration. 

Police in London have strip-searched 650 mostly Black children – most of whom were found to be innocent of the suspicions against them – over a two-year period, the UK’s children’s commissioner says.