Britain's most senior police officer said security around Baroness Thatcher's funeral and the London Marathon will be stepped up in the next few days ...

Two police officers involved in the search for murdered Tia Sharp's body have been disciplined. A sergeant and a constable received "words of advi...

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has levelled a ban on visible tattoos for its officers as part of a public image drive, after its commissioner c...

Royal protection officers guarding Prince Harry cannot intrude into his social life, Britain's most senior policeman said today. Metropolitan Polic...

Crime went down by 6% across the capital during the Olympic and Paralympic Games according to initial estimates, the head of the Met Police Bernard Ho...

Securing the Olympic venues with the help of 11,000 fully trained soldiers is no bad thing, Britain's most senior police officer said. Scotland Yar...

London mayor Boris Johnson will on Thursday launch a review of measures introduced to eradicate racism within the Met Police. Johnson will launch t...

Britain's top police officer has warned MI6 they are not above the law as he revealed proposals for mass DNA screenings in the long-running Gareth Wil...

Britain's top officer vowed to become an "implacable enemy" of racists at Scotland Yard as he agreed the force needed to "buck up its ideas". Commi...

Scotland Yard's race row deepened on Thursday as three officers were referred to the police watchdog over comments to colleagues. Two PCs and an ac...

Britain's top policeman has insisted that there is no place for racists in the Met and vowed to get to the bottom of "very damaging" allegations again...

The head of the Metropolitan police said the force's relationship with the press was "an issue" and "quite unstable" when he arrived at Scotland Yard ...

Former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie told phone hacking campaigner and MP Tom Watson to "shut up" and "go back to sleep" in an extraordinary exchange on...

Dozens of suspected gang members as young as 14 years old have been arrested by police in a series of co-ordinated operations across London in a fresh...

The Metropolitan Police is to dramatically reduce the number of random searches on members of the public in an effort to improve relations between off...

Scotland Yard Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe has issued a warning to the other suspects in the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, as two men ...

Police face a clampdown over contact with journalists today as an inquiry into media relations with forces is published. Elizabeth Filkin, the form...

The head of the Metropolitan Police has reacted cautiously to the prospect of acquiring water cannon to deal with any future outbreaks of rioting. ...

Britain's top police chief says he has an "open mind" over proposals to spend millions of pounds on water cannon to avoid a repeat of the summer riots...