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More than 170 serving Metropolitan police officers are under investigation for alleged domestic abuse, the Evening Standard can reveal.

Figures from City Hall show that a rising number of police are subject to inquiries. The Standard reported in February that 147 officers had faced allegations of domestic violence against their spouses or partners in the last two years, with just eight per cent of those charged with a crime. Currently 173 serving Met officers have outstanding accusations against them at “different stages” of investigation, according to the Greater London Authority.

Some 152 are subject to live criminal or misconduct proceedings and 21 officers have a case to answer for gross misconduct and are awaiting a hearing, according to City Hall. 

Labour London Assembly member Unmesh Desai said the figures showed the “huge challenge” facing new Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, who starts this month. “This is a shocking figure and these are only the ones we know about,” said Mr Desai.

“These are officers who have had an official complaint made against them either directly or anonymously through various domestic violence reporting channels. What is important is that no matter how it is reported it is building up a picture for the new incoming Met Commissioner and the scale of the challenge facing him in the force. He has to get to grips with the situation.”

Mr Desai added that some of the officers will be suspended or on restricted duties while under investigation, but others will still be working.

Under new misconduct guidelines announced last month, officers who are violent towards women or girls can expect to be sacked. 

Sir Mark will take charge of the Met on Monday, September 12. His predecessor, Dame Cressida Dick, was forced out by Mayor Sadiq Khan earlier this year after a series of controversies.

These included the police watchdog finding “disgraceful” misogyny, discrimination and sexual harassment among some constables and criticism over the Sarah Everard murder inquiry and subsequent protests. Ms Everard was kidnapped and killed by serving Met officer, Wayne Couzens, in March last year.

It comes as the Met prepares to release a report into the number of staff who have been accused of sexual misconduct or domestic abuse over the last 10 years and remain employed. 

The Met said the completed review was being scrutinised by bosses. It added that it aimed “to make certain that those who made the allegations are being properly supported and the investigations are comprehensive”.

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September 11 - The far-right on the rise - how do we stop them? Public meeting

SPEAKERS: Nahella Ashraf (Stand Up to Racism) Unmesh Desai (Labour GLA Assembly member) Eddie Dempsey (RMT National Executive Committee) Leonie Cooper (Labour GLA Assembly member and Wandsworth & Merton councillor Dave Gilchrist, bookseller at Bookmarks Mike Cushman (Jewish Voice for Labour) Chaired by Jocelyn Cruywagen, Unison Black members group Lambeth + more TBA We are witnessing an alarming growth in the threat posed by the far right in Britain and across Europe. The release of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson) from prison has further boosted their confidence. Donald Trump's bigoted rhetoric and senior Tories like Boris Johnson launching attacks on Muslim women will only increase Islamophobia and further encourage these forces. In the week after the MP's racist comments, there were at least 5 attacks targeting women who wear the veil. And the attacks by far right activists on RMT trade unionists and on the socialist bookshop Bookmarks are a sinister and threatening development.

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Post letters: Education, housing plan, youth services and transportation

Post letters: Education, real estate strategy, youth services and transport

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Dr Restall states mathematics and literacy need to be a crucial focus. Photo: PA IMAGES

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Letters, contributions and remarks sent out in from Post readers this week.Trade training ought to be optional Dr Leonard Restall, formerly Barking, composes: The view expressed by the principal of Barking and Dagenham College

that some type of employment or trade training must be required within our schools curriculum is stuffed with difficulties. At the minute there are diminishing standards within the instructional systems in mathematics and

literacy skills: 2 basic requirements for additional development and to reduce any experience in these two fundamental subjects could impair the education.Historically education has actually been used as a form of trade training and this idea is still being considered. However you could ask ‘What sort of trade is the training for?’In early days there was scholastic education desired by universities, and specialised technical schools and colleges were for those trainees that were unsatisfactory for

universities. They might pick to go to a technical college or carry on with secondary education. To make trade training or vocational training compulsory would hardly produce the best results for all students although some would get much from it. This offsetting type of obsession needs to be withstood but can be modified to match the uniqueness of the students. To do something that disagrees would be a waste of time and

loan. Research reveals about 80 per cent of employees remain in jobs unsuited to their uniqueness or personality type. Many students study the subjects not best ideal for their type. Choice is a terrific incentive but obsession is wasteful.One resolution is to have choices with the option made by the students in combination with moms and dads and counsellors. Such subject areas as woodworking, metal work, practical chemistry, technical illustration, and accounting to call just a couple of.

Skills in these locations might be beneficial within the office and handy for the trainee in picking what type of work they would need. Credit levels could be developed in the subject locations and each of these subject choices would gain experience from the workplace.Is housebuilding strategy adequate?Terry Justice, Ashton Gardens, Chadwell Heath, writes: The Chief Executive of Barking and Dagenham Council just recently revealed the council intends to

develop 60,000(yes, sixty thousand)new homes in our borough. He refrained from telling us precisely where they are to be put, or for whom they are meant.

We have an unclear clue when we consider the announcement made last week, by the council leader Darren

Rodwell, when he explained a strategy for a”Barcelona-on-Thames”. The negative amongst us may well prefer the title,”Hackney-on-Thames”however we shall, no doubt, discover in due

course.The mad rush to put these match-boxes, under the guise of “inexpensive “houses, on every blade of yard in the location is not something which fills much of our citizens with excited anticipation.There are those people who ask where the newbies are to be utilized, where their kids are to be educated, or where their health is to be made sure and protected.It has become trendy to make extravagant pledges on future housing availability, grounded on hope more than actuality however the announcements are based more on instant panic than long-lasting planning. When these estates were integrated in the early 1930’s, it was to clear the homelessness and the run-down neighborhoods of the East-End of London.Now we remain in imminent risk of recreating them in Barking and Dagenham. We are ending up being grossly overcrowded and unable to cope with individuals we already have and the recommendation that we must be accommodating some third of a million more is completely unimaginable. Has anyone considered what the lifestyle for those unfortunate citizens will become? We should purchase youth services Sian Berry, Green Party London Assembly Member, composes: My work as a Green London assembly member has actually shown that across London,

councils have actually cut over ₤ 30 million from yearly spending plans for youth services in current years.The terrible violence we saw recently is an awful recommendation of warnings by neighborhood activists of the growing risk of knife criminal activity while assistance for youths is cut back.A year ago the Mayor of London told me it wasn’t his

task to plug the spaces left by government cuts in council youth services. However with campaigners I continued, collected the evidence, and now we have actually

won genuine brand-new funds entering into jobs that will help fix some of the damage triggered by these cuts.I’m really delighted to have dealt with this concern and convinced Sadiq Khan to alter his mind. The new ₤ 45 million three-year fund announced in the mayor’s spending plan this month will make a distinction to many young lives in London. In City Hall last week, he informed me that anyone with strategies can begin contacting his group now, and I hope that organisations throughout London that have actually lost funding or have new concepts will apply as quickly as they can. Transport system needs financing Unmesh Desai AM, City and East, writes: The federal government’s careless choice to get rid of ₤ 700 million annually from TfL’s budget is extremely worrying at a time when we have actually heard that traveler numbers on television have actually begun to fall.Worryingly, this cut has caused all non-essential roadway enhancements being postponed for 2 years.The removal of this essential financing comes as a direct outcome of the failure of the previous mayor, Boris Johnson, to make the case to his

own government to keep up financial investment into London’s transport network. It likewise indicates that astoundingly, London is one of the only significant cities on the planet with a public transportation and roadway network that does not receive government funding to support its transport expenses. Regardless of the destructive actions of the federal government, the mayor has actually acted

to protect TfL’s frontline services and sustain his record financial investment into modernising our transport system. At the very same time, the mayor has likewise decreased TfL’s operating expense for the first time in its history-

by ₤ 153 million in the in 2015 alone.I am completely behind the deputy mayor for transport’s recent calls for TfL’s grant to be restored by the government in the upcoming Spring Statement. The government needs to follow the mayor’s lead, get its priorities right and keep the future of our transport network on track.

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Post letters: Education, housing plan, youth services and transportation

Post letters: Education, real estate strategy, youth services and transport

RELEASED: 08:00 11 March 2018

Dr Restall states mathematics and literacy need to be a crucial focus. Photo: PA IMAGES

PA Archive/Press Association Images

Letters, contributions and remarks sent out in from Post readers this week.Trade training ought to be optional Dr Leonard Restall, formerly Barking, composes: The view expressed by the principal of Barking and Dagenham College

that some type of employment or trade training must be required within our schools curriculum is stuffed with difficulties. At the minute there are diminishing standards within the instructional systems in mathematics and

literacy skills: 2 basic requirements for additional development and to reduce any experience in these two fundamental subjects could impair the education.Historically education has actually been used as a form of trade training and this idea is still being considered. However you could ask ‘What sort of trade is the training for?’In early days there was scholastic education desired by universities, and specialised technical schools and colleges were for those trainees that were unsatisfactory for

universities. They might pick to go to a technical college or carry on with secondary education. To make trade training or vocational training compulsory would hardly produce the best results for all students although some would get much from it. This offsetting type of obsession needs to be withstood but can be modified to match the uniqueness of the students. To do something that disagrees would be a waste of time and

loan. Research reveals about 80 per cent of employees remain in jobs unsuited to their uniqueness or personality type. Many students study the subjects not best ideal for their type. Choice is a terrific incentive but obsession is wasteful.One resolution is to have choices with the option made by the students in combination with moms and dads and counsellors. Such subject areas as woodworking, metal work, practical chemistry, technical illustration, and accounting to call just a couple of.

Skills in these locations might be beneficial within the office and handy for the trainee in picking what type of work they would need. Credit levels could be developed in the subject locations and each of these subject choices would gain experience from the workplace.Is housebuilding strategy adequate?Terry Justice, Ashton Gardens, Chadwell Heath, writes: The Chief Executive of Barking and Dagenham Council just recently revealed the council intends to

develop 60,000(yes, sixty thousand)new homes in our borough. He refrained from telling us precisely where they are to be put, or for whom they are meant.

We have an unclear clue when we consider the announcement made last week, by the council leader Darren

Rodwell, when he explained a strategy for a”Barcelona-on-Thames”. The negative amongst us may well prefer the title,”Hackney-on-Thames”however we shall, no doubt, discover in due

course.The mad rush to put these match-boxes, under the guise of “inexpensive “houses, on every blade of yard in the location is not something which fills much of our citizens with excited anticipation.There are those people who ask where the newbies are to be utilized, where their kids are to be educated, or where their health is to be made sure and protected.It has become trendy to make extravagant pledges on future housing availability, grounded on hope more than actuality however the announcements are based more on instant panic than long-lasting planning. When these estates were integrated in the early 1930’s, it was to clear the homelessness and the run-down neighborhoods of the East-End of London.Now we remain in imminent risk of recreating them in Barking and Dagenham. We are ending up being grossly overcrowded and unable to cope with individuals we already have and the recommendation that we must be accommodating some third of a million more is completely unimaginable. Has anyone considered what the lifestyle for those unfortunate citizens will become? We should purchase youth services Sian Berry, Green Party London Assembly Member, composes: My work as a Green London assembly member has actually shown that across London,

councils have actually cut over ₤ 30 million from yearly spending plans for youth services in current years.The terrible violence we saw recently is an awful recommendation of warnings by neighborhood activists of the growing risk of knife criminal activity while assistance for youths is cut back.A year ago the Mayor of London told me it wasn’t his

task to plug the spaces left by government cuts in council youth services. However with campaigners I continued, collected the evidence, and now we have actually

won genuine brand-new funds entering into jobs that will help fix some of the damage triggered by these cuts.I’m really delighted to have dealt with this concern and convinced Sadiq Khan to alter his mind. The new ₤ 45 million three-year fund announced in the mayor’s spending plan this month will make a distinction to many young lives in London. In City Hall last week, he informed me that anyone with strategies can begin contacting his group now, and I hope that organisations throughout London that have actually lost funding or have new concepts will apply as quickly as they can. Transport system needs financing Unmesh Desai AM, City and East, writes: The federal government’s careless choice to get rid of ₤ 700 million annually from TfL’s budget is extremely worrying at a time when we have actually heard that traveler numbers on television have actually begun to fall.Worryingly, this cut has caused all non-essential roadway enhancements being postponed for 2 years.The removal of this essential financing comes as a direct outcome of the failure of the previous mayor, Boris Johnson, to make the case to his

own government to keep up financial investment into London’s transport network. It likewise indicates that astoundingly, London is one of the only significant cities on the planet with a public transportation and roadway network that does not receive government funding to support its transport expenses. Regardless of the destructive actions of the federal government, the mayor has actually acted

to protect TfL’s frontline services and sustain his record financial investment into modernising our transport system. At the very same time, the mayor has likewise decreased TfL’s operating expense for the first time in its history-

by ₤ 153 million in the in 2015 alone.I am completely behind the deputy mayor for transport’s recent calls for TfL’s grant to be restored by the government in the upcoming Spring Statement. The government needs to follow the mayor’s lead, get its priorities right and keep the future of our transport network on track.

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Post letters: Education, housing plan, youth services and transportation

Post letters: Education, real estate strategy, youth services and transport

RELEASED: 08:00 11 March 2018

Dr Restall states mathematics and literacy need to be a crucial focus. Photo: PA IMAGES

PA Archive/Press Association Images

Letters, contributions and remarks sent out in from Post readers this week.Trade training ought to be optional Dr Leonard Restall, formerly Barking, composes: The view expressed by the principal of Barking and Dagenham College

that some type of employment or trade training must be required within our schools curriculum is stuffed with difficulties. At the minute there are diminishing standards within the instructional systems in mathematics and

literacy skills: 2 basic requirements for additional development and to reduce any experience in these two fundamental subjects could impair the education.Historically education has actually been used as a form of trade training and this idea is still being considered. However you could ask ‘What sort of trade is the training for?’In early days there was scholastic education desired by universities, and specialised technical schools and colleges were for those trainees that were unsatisfactory for

universities. They might pick to go to a technical college or carry on with secondary education. To make trade training or vocational training compulsory would hardly produce the best results for all students although some would get much from it. This offsetting type of obsession needs to be withstood but can be modified to match the uniqueness of the students. To do something that disagrees would be a waste of time and

loan. Research reveals about 80 per cent of employees remain in jobs unsuited to their uniqueness or personality type. Many students study the subjects not best ideal for their type. Choice is a terrific incentive but obsession is wasteful.One resolution is to have choices with the option made by the students in combination with moms and dads and counsellors. Such subject areas as woodworking, metal work, practical chemistry, technical illustration, and accounting to call just a couple of.

Skills in these locations might be beneficial within the office and handy for the trainee in picking what type of work they would need. Credit levels could be developed in the subject locations and each of these subject choices would gain experience from the workplace.Is housebuilding strategy adequate?Terry Justice, Ashton Gardens, Chadwell Heath, writes: The Chief Executive of Barking and Dagenham Council just recently revealed the council intends to

develop 60,000(yes, sixty thousand)new homes in our borough. He refrained from telling us precisely where they are to be put, or for whom they are meant.

We have an unclear clue when we consider the announcement made last week, by the council leader Darren

Rodwell, when he explained a strategy for a”Barcelona-on-Thames”. The negative amongst us may well prefer the title,”Hackney-on-Thames”however we shall, no doubt, discover in due

course.The mad rush to put these match-boxes, under the guise of “inexpensive “houses, on every blade of yard in the location is not something which fills much of our citizens with excited anticipation.There are those people who ask where the newbies are to be utilized, where their kids are to be educated, or where their health is to be made sure and protected.It has become trendy to make extravagant pledges on future housing availability, grounded on hope more than actuality however the announcements are based more on instant panic than long-lasting planning. When these estates were integrated in the early 1930’s, it was to clear the homelessness and the run-down neighborhoods of the East-End of London.Now we remain in imminent risk of recreating them in Barking and Dagenham. We are ending up being grossly overcrowded and unable to cope with individuals we already have and the recommendation that we must be accommodating some third of a million more is completely unimaginable. Has anyone considered what the lifestyle for those unfortunate citizens will become? We should purchase youth services Sian Berry, Green Party London Assembly Member, composes: My work as a Green London assembly member has actually shown that across London,

councils have actually cut over ₤ 30 million from yearly spending plans for youth services in current years.The terrible violence we saw recently is an awful recommendation of warnings by neighborhood activists of the growing risk of knife criminal activity while assistance for youths is cut back.A year ago the Mayor of London told me it wasn’t his

task to plug the spaces left by government cuts in council youth services. However with campaigners I continued, collected the evidence, and now we have actually

won genuine brand-new funds entering into jobs that will help fix some of the damage triggered by these cuts.I’m really delighted to have dealt with this concern and convinced Sadiq Khan to alter his mind. The new ₤ 45 million three-year fund announced in the mayor’s spending plan this month will make a distinction to many young lives in London. In City Hall last week, he informed me that anyone with strategies can begin contacting his group now, and I hope that organisations throughout London that have actually lost funding or have new concepts will apply as quickly as they can. Transport system needs financing Unmesh Desai AM, City and East, writes: The federal government’s careless choice to get rid of ₤ 700 million annually from TfL’s budget is extremely worrying at a time when we have actually heard that traveler numbers on television have actually begun to fall.Worryingly, this cut has caused all non-essential roadway enhancements being postponed for 2 years.The removal of this essential financing comes as a direct outcome of the failure of the previous mayor, Boris Johnson, to make the case to his

own government to keep up financial investment into London’s transport network. It likewise indicates that astoundingly, London is one of the only significant cities on the planet with a public transportation and roadway network that does not receive government funding to support its transport expenses. Regardless of the destructive actions of the federal government, the mayor has actually acted

to protect TfL’s frontline services and sustain his record financial investment into modernising our transport system. At the very same time, the mayor has likewise decreased TfL’s operating expense for the first time in its history-

by ₤ 153 million in the in 2015 alone.I am completely behind the deputy mayor for transport’s recent calls for TfL’s grant to be restored by the government in the upcoming Spring Statement. The government needs to follow the mayor’s lead, get its priorities right and keep the future of our transport network on track.

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Violent hate crimes soared in London in 2021 with almost 9,500 offences recorded by police, new figures have revealed.

It represents a 44 per cent increase on the figure recorded in 2018 and means there have now been more than 31,000 violent hate crimes in the capital in the past four years.

More than 80 per cent of all the violent hate crimes recorded since 2018 involved the victim being targeted for their race or religion - though attacks motivated by anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia all rose last year.

The figures were requested by Labour London Assembly Member Unmesh Desai who described them as “shocking and utterly depressing”.

Mr Desai said: “Education is vital to stamping out hate and it has been positive to see the Mayor [of London] invest in grassroots and early intervention projects that counter harmful and intolerant attitudes.

“It is important that after many years of damaging austerity, the Met Police are properly resourced so they can more effectively respond to hate crime incidents.

“The new Commissioner must also prioritise restoring Londoners’ trust and confidence in policing, so more victims of hate crime are comfortable coming forward to report their experiences.”

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in London rose by 45 per cent between 2020 and 2021, with 849 incidents recorded in total last year – 290 of which were violent.

The London Assembly unanimously voted on Thursday in favour of a motion calling on Mayor of London Sadiq Khan to develop a specific strategy to tackle anti-Semitism in London.

Conservative Assembly Member Susan Hall, who proposed the motion, said: “Anti-Semitism has no place in our city. Last year we saw a shocking 45 per cent rise in reported antisemitic hate crimes.

“The horrific racism that we have seen on our streets towards Jewish Londoners needs tackling. The Assembly calls on the mayor to act swiftly with all his available powers to eliminate antisemitism from London.”

There is also growing concern over the rise in homophobic and transphobic hate crimes in the capital.

Last summer saw homophobic hate crimes soar to a shocking 10-year high, with 400 offences recorded in June alone.

In total, there were 1,531 violent homophobic hate crimes in the whole of 2021.

The murder of Ranjith Kankanamalage in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park last August was believed to be motivated by homophobia, making it the only hate crime-related homicide to take place in London in the past four years.

After a rise in the number of reported hate crime incidents, the Metropolitan Police announced last month that it had “refreshed” its approach to dealing with hate crimes.

Police said this was to “provide better support to victims, to enable a stronger response towards offenders of hate crime and to improve accessibility of our service to Londoners across all communities”.

Anyone who witnesses or is a victim of a hate crime in London is encouraged to contact the police on 101 or by calling 999 in an emergency.

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Event: Celebrating 20 years of Eastside Community Heritage Eastside Community Heritage will be 20 years old this year – Please join us to celebrate. Originally established in 1993 to document the changes through a period of immense regeneration and change for local residents, the organisation was originally called the Stratford City Challenge Community Heritage Project. In 1998 it registered as a charity and became Eastside Community Heritage and has during the last 20 years led the way in community heritage locally, regionally and nationally, with a unique methodological approach to community development and pioneering projects. To mark our 20th anniversary we would like to invite you to join us for a special event on: Friday 7th December 2018 from 5.30 to 7.30pm, In the Hopkins room, Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, London E15 1EL Guest key note speaker: Unmesh Desai, GLA Assembly Member for City and East London Please note we will be holding our Annual General Meeting from 5 to 5.30pm. We will also be launching our new exhibition 'East London Women Inventors'. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-20-years-of-eastside-community-heritage-tickets-52085674655?ref=enivtefor001&invite=MTUzNzg0MTAvcC52LmR1ZG1hbkB1ZWwuYWMudWsvMA%3D%3D%0A&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=inviteformalv2&utm_term=eventpage via @EastsideCH @GarfieldJudith

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