The Guardian • 1st September 2024 UK police risk assessment before riots said far-right threat probably ‘minimal’ Documents show officers instead prioritised environmental and pro-Palestinian protests as potential hazards
inews.co.uk • 6th May 2024 Met Police officers accessed controversial facial recognition site 2,000 times Scotland Yard has banned officers from using a controversial facial recognition search engine after it was accessed thousands of times from Metropolitan Police computers.
The Telegraph • 5th January 2024 Police secretly conducting facial recognition searches of passport database Police forces have been secretly conducting hundreds of facial recognition searches using the UK’s database of 46 million British passport holders, it can be revealed.
inews.co.uk • 31st December 2023 UK police forces rapidly expanding use of lie detector tests Police forces in Britain may be exceeding their powers by using lie detector tests to interview suspects, it can be revealed.
inews.co.uk • 25th November 2023 Police across Britain equipped with live facial recognition bodycams Police forces across Britain are equipping their officers with body-worn video cameras capable of carrying out live facial recognition searches on passers-by, it can be revealed.
inews.co.uk • 23rd September 2023 Hundreds of thousands of innocent people on police databases as facial recognition use soars The use of facial recognition technology has rocketed, despite warnings that it is opaque and open to abuse.
The Verge • 31st August 2023 IBM promised to back off facial recognition — then it signed a $69.8 million contract to provide it The company denies its new government deal enables ‘general purpose’ biometric surveillance. Human rights advocates disagree.
openDemocracy • 17th August 2023 Police are unlawfully storing data of former suspects Police forces are unlawfully storing sensitive data of potentially millions of former suspects who have never been charged with a crime.
The Guardian • 6th August 2023 Met only authorised baton rounds for black-led events, FOI reveals The only events for which Metropolitan police chiefs authorised the potential use of baton rounds in the past six years were black-led gatherings, documents show.
The Guardian • 10th June 2023 Black remand prisoners held 70% longer than white counterparts in England and Wales New data reveals racial disparities at the heart of the criminal justice system.
Daily Mirror • 10th October 2019 One patient every 45mins is hurt by stressed medics Record number of mistakes in NHS due to staff shortages & exhausted workers.
The Guardian • 18th February 2019 Museums grapple with rise in pleas for return of foreign treasures Revealed: Natural History Museum pressured to return remains to Gibraltar and Chile
Daily Mirror • 24th October 2018 Deadly hospital infections QUADRUPLE as staff struggle to fight superbugs EXCLUSIVE: There were 48,000 last year up from 11,000 in 2010, with 1,000 new cases a week
The Guardian • 25th March 2019 British Library planning Leeds branch with Boston Spa upgrade The British Library has embarked upon “ambitious” plans to open a branch in Leeds.
Vice • 11th May 2017 Exclusive: Local Councils Offered to Take Thousands More Refugee Children Councils across the country have made offers to support almost 1,600 unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
Daily Mirror • 25th February 2019 Morgue blunders scandal as wrong bodies released to grieving relatives Eleven cases of the wrong body being released to funeral directors or bereaved relatives are among 75 major incidents that were reported by mortuaries last year
Vice • 29th February 2016 More than One in Ten Local Councils Are Moving to Criminalise Homelessness Powers designed to tackle anti-social behaviour are being used to criminalise activity such as rough sleeping, begging and loitering.
Vice • 31st May 2018 Ambulances Were Called to Amazon Warehouses 600 Times in Three Years New data obtained by VICE shows the shocking frequency of emergency medical calls made by Amazon workers.
Vice • 8th October 2018 Hospital Data Shows How Britain's Drug Problem Is Getting Worse Admissions for cocaine are spiralling, teens are taking sedatives in harmful doses, and more and more older people are being hospitalised after taking drugs.
Vice • 19th March 2018 Cocaine Hospitalisations Are Up 90 Percent in the UK VICE analysis of hospital data has revealed in-patient episodes linked to cocaine have risen by more than 90 percent in the last four years.
