Mastodawn

👮‍♀️👧For over 30 years, UK universities have hosted undercover student police officers—young women often still living at home—tasked with protecting peers from crime. But what happens when immaturity, fear, and institutional failures collide with the very students they are meant to protect?
#UKpolicing #rRapeSurvivors
https://alisonlittle.blog/2026/01/13/policewomen-self-determined-helplessness/t

Wen Feb 3

The Spy cops saga keeps unfolding

Much to the consternation of the Mainly) Met who would like everything to just go away and get on with their secret corruption.

But, ‘undercover police informant makes up things to pad out reports’ - who would have thunk it?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/03/police-spycops-inquiry-carlo-soracchi

#Policing #Undercover #Incentives #UkPolicing #UkPol #SpyCops

Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears

Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’

The Guardian

Oakland Privacy Dec 9

Home Office has finally admitted what campaigners have warned for years: the UK’s police facial recognition system is much more likely to misidentify Black and Asian people.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/05/home-office-facial-recognition-tech-issue-black-asian-subjects

#facialrecognition #policesurveillance #ukpolicing #civilrights #privacyrights
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Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects

Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings

The Guardian

Steven Heywood Oct 6

Plod ignores the breaking of the Public Order Act 1936 to allow American Blackshirts to march through the ruinously expensive coffee quarter of London to protest against the 1970s, uniting the English Left and Right in telling them to fuck off and don't be silly.

(Damned good job it wasn't pensioners holding cardboard placards or else The Met would have had to arrest them as terrorists).

#UKProtests
#UKPolicing

https://www.thepoke.com/2025/10/06/the-christian-evangelical-kings-army-blocked-londons-soho-in-protest-at-its-immoral-culture-and-was-magnificently-schooled-into-next-year/

The Christian evangelical ‘King’s Army’ blocked London’s Soho in protest at its ‘immoral culture’ and was magnificently schooled into next year

Like us you might not have come across the ‘King’s Army’ before. No, it’s not Charles’ personal security battalion, it’s a Christian evangelical movement – no, don’t go! – which is ‘at war with sin and the devil’. Each to their own, obviously. Well, that that is until God’s unofficial shock and awe squad take […]

The Poke

quangobaud Jan 13, 2025

"non-reportable briefing"

#UKPolicing #Press #FreedomOfThePress

The-14 Oct 11, 2024

Devolving justice and policing to Wales would put it on par with Scotland and Northern Ireland – so what’s holding it back?
#Wales #UK #Labour #UKJustice #Devolution #UKPolicing #JusticeReform #Policing #WelshLabour #UKPolitics #Justice
https://the-14.com/devolving-justice-and-policing-to-wales-would-put-it-on-par-with-scotland-and-northern-ireland-so-whats-holding-it-back/

Jay the Art Guy Sep 4, 2024

Priti Patel has become the first person kicked out of the Tory leadership race. Here's a cartoon I did of her a few years back when she was Former foreign secretary, with her being driven via chariot by blood thirsty bobbies.

#PritiPatel #Tories #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #UKpolitics #Conservatives #UKPolice #UKPolicing #Police #UKRacism #AntiRacism #cartoon #acab

Stephen Cox Author May 8, 2023

#ukpol #ukpolicing #republic #coronation #MetropolitanPolice #screwup
The Met announce no charges against any of the republicans arrested at the coronation, accept that the items that were so dangerous were in fact for what the demonstrators said they were for, and that there was no communication between the police liaising with them beforehand and the police on the ground. ie the Met are some proportion of incompetant, authoritarian, and trying to spin out of a hole.

A.Stringer Mar 31, 2023

"Both Mr Sunak and Sir Keir appear to be trying to out-do each other on the policing of antisocial behaviour. Their time would be better spent examining the problems for which the police are being called out."

#Crime #UKPolicing #AntisocialBehaviour #Police #Austerity #SocialProblems
The Guardian view on community policing: patrols aren’t a panacea
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/31/the-guardian-view-on-antisocial-behaviour-more-police-isnt-the-answer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other