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Knife crime: Fatal stabbings at highest level since records began in 1946. 7 February 2019 Image copyright PA The number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales last year was the highest ever recorded, the Office for National Statistics says. There were…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-47130035 Police have denied claims they vandalised a tree planted in memory of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence. Tola Munro, the National Black Police Association's (NBPA) president, accused Leicestershire Police staff at a Home Affairs Committee hearing.

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Thousands of police officers and civilian staff have never undergone stricter criminal record and background checks, despite the fact that they were introduced in 2006, the BBC has found. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47073883

A man has been fined after refusing to be scanned by controversial facial recognition cameras being trialled by the Metropolitan Police. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facial-recognition-cameras-technology-london-trial-met-police-face-cover-man-fined-a8756936.html

Image caption PC Baker said the man "spat directly" into his face during an arrest A police officer who had blood spat into his mouth while making an arrest faced an agonising 12-month wait while he feared he had contracted an illness. PC Baker - not his real name - said the "degrading" assault had "affected every part" of his life. He said he experienced a "horrible" year before finding out he had not contracted a blood-borne illness. PC Baker wants compulsory testing for people who spit at emergency workers, so others avoid the same uncertainty. The "aggressive" drunk offender, whose face was "covered with blood and mucus", spat directly into…

Return to News Three Albanians – two who were in the UK illegally - found with a kilo of 92 per cent pure cocaine in a Primark bag have been jailed. During interview with NCA investigators, one of the three – Shpati Hakili, aged 30 - denied any knowledge of the cocaine. Unfortunately for him, inside the Primark bag was a receipt for underpants he had bought from the shop a week previously. Officers obtained the CCTV from the store showing Hakili buying the goods. At Maidstone Crown Court yesterday (31 January 2019), Hakili, from Woodstock Road, Rochester, Kent, alongside his two counterparts - Florenc Kola, aged 28, from Woodland Street, Deptford, SE13 and …