Men sexually harass women merely by sitting in the same room as them, the police officer in charge of tackling violence against women and girls has said. When will police go back to catching actual criminals?
Police officers in England and Wales are spending up to a third of their time on non-policing matters, including assisting heart attack patients due to high demand and an overstretched ambulance service.
Keir Starmer faces a police investigation into his lockdown curry, after repeatedly demanding Boris Johnson should quit for breaching rules.
Freedom Convoy protests continue in Canada, France and New Zealand – three countries where extreme responses to Covid have persisted for two years and where the unvaccinated are targeted with harsh restrictions.
A Brit travelling back to England from France on Eurostar yesterday was accosted by armed French police and left stranded in Lille because he was wearing the "wrong type of mask".
Scotland Yard has been prompted to issue advice about the powers held by the police and for those approached by an undercover officer, with a former Senior Officer saying: "If you're really concerned dial 999."
In the same month that Wayne Couzens abused Covid rules to kidnapped Sarah Everard, ministers were urged to “roll back the extensive powers unwisely handed to the state” and to the police.
Not our job: Australia’s NSW Police Commissioner refuses to comply with a Government diktat that officers must help bar the unvaccinated from restaurants, cafes and pubs.
Headteachers have been told to call the police if parents concerned about the vaccination of their healthy teenager children against Covid ('anti-vaxxers', as the media puts it) protest outside school gates.
One of the organisers of a recent anti-lockdown protest in Sydney has been sentenced to eight months in prison for helping to plan an "unauthorised" demonstration.
