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'Terror attack on New York subway' foiled by Scotland Yard tip-off

09.11.09
Suspected al Qaeda plot to bomb the New York subway was foiled by British anti-terror investigators, it was claimed... more

Details of Green arrest have been 'covered up'

13.10.09
Police officer who led the investigation into allegations that government secrets were being passed to a Tory MP claims details of the case have been covered up... more

Secrets of Damian Green arrest report blacked out

01.10.09
Report into arrest of Conservative MP Damian Green by has been heavily censored with some sensitive passages completely blacked out... more

London's police: the verdict

28.04.09
Our poll on London's policing shows that by a narrow margin, the capital has a positive view of the police - but public satisfaction is moving in the wrong direction following the widely viewed collapse of bystander Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests... more

Last two terror suspects in Brown’s ‘big plot’ are freed

22.04.09
Gordon Brown is facing embarrassment after the final two men held in the anti-terror raids that followed Bob Quick’s photographed files blunder were released without charge... more

Students in Quick 'terror' arrests freed without charge

22.04.09
Ministers are facing an embarrassing deportation battle as nine Pakistani students held in the anti-terror raids that followed Bob Quick's photographed files blunder were released without charge... more

Home Secretary faces the music

20.04.09
The Home Secretary was due to face the Commons as she battles to hold on to her job... more

Maybe this wasn’t another police cock-up

14.04.09
Like a hungry machine, political debate in Britain needs an endless supply of raw material. Just before Easter the arrest of 10 Pakistani “terror suspects” provided the fuel that kept the engines turning... more

Why Quick had to quit the Met

09.04.09
Bob Quick, the country’s most senior anti-terrorism officer, has resigned. He was right to do so... more

Blundering cop collects a fortune

09.04.09
Britain's blundering anti-terrorism police chief Bob Quick quits with a six-figure pension deal... more

Police chief rang Tory leader for help in arrest of Damian Green

10.02.09
Police had to enlist the help of David Cameron to carry out the arrest of Tory MP Damian Green, it has emerged... more

Civilians in charge of custody to release bobbies for the beat

06.01.09
Hundreds of police officers are to be put back on the beat under plans to put civilians in charge of holding prisoners... more

Met to disband anti-terrorism unit that arrested Tory MP

24.12.08
The Scotland Yard counter-terrorism unit that arrested Tory MP Damian Green is set to be disbanded, the Evening Standard has learned... more

Oh no - surely not another foot-in-mouth moment at the Met

24.12.08
Emergency! Another outbreak of foot -in-mouth at the Metropolitan Police. Never mind the terror threat, how to keep the crime figures down or our fears of "low level" (in reality, highly discomfiting) anti-social behaviour on the streets. Senior management in New Scotland Yard are once again preoccupied by the behaviour of one of their own top officers.... more

We don't need your petulance, Mr Quick

23.12.08
The best definition of a bully is of a man who "can give it but can't take it". Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick of the Met can certainly give it - taking it is another matter, however... more

Push to appoint new Met chief and mend split with Tories

23.12.08
The appointment of a new Met Police Commissioner is being fast-tracked in a desperate bid to end the leadership crisis at Scotland Yard... more

Met chief ‘must quit for calling Tories corrupt’

22.12.08
The Tories called on a Met chief to consider his position despite his unreserved apology for describing the party as “wholly corrupt”... more

Mr Quick and a lack of judgment

22.12.08
Mr Quick was right to withdraw his remarks but it remains worrying that he made them in the first place... more

Anti-terror job for 'safe pair of hands'

22.12.08
Bob Quick's appointment to head Britain's counter terrorism operations was generally considered a safe move following the departure of his predecessor Andy Hayman.... more

What we need is a ­C-charge holiday

22.12.08
Manchester's overwhelming rejection this month of a congestion charge hammers home what we already knew: by making road pricing its main transport policy, the Government has wasted five years up a blind alley... more

No women on shortlist to become next Met chief

17.12.08
Four senior police officers – none of them women – have been shortlisted to be the next Metropolitan Police Commissioner... more

More than one 'mole' in Home Office leaks

05.12.08
Police believe the civil servant at the centre of the Damian Green inquiry is responsible for only half of the Home Office leaks they are investigating... more

Smith rebuked for not challenging raid police

04.12.08
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was sharply criticised in the Commons by her Labour predecessor over the handling of the Damian Green arrest... more

Yard is hunting for more moles across Whitehall

04.12.08
More police investigations are under way into Whitehall leaks, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has indicated... more

Yard broke Commons rules over search of MP's office Commons

04.12.08
Scotland Yard faces embarrassment for breaching guidelines when it obtained consent to search the Commons office of Damian Green... more

15 terrorist plots foiled

22.04.08
Fifteen planned terrorist attacks in Britain have been foiled since the 2005 London bombings, Met chiefs say... more

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