“Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.”
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.
Wow, what an ending at McDiarmid Park! 🤯
Dunfermline were pushing hard for a late equaliser but St Johnstone hold firm to secure all three points! 👊
#BBCFootball
Remembering PC Andrew Harper, Thames Valley Police, who died on this day in 2019, after sustaining fatal injuries when he was hit and dragged along by a vehicle while attending a reported burglary.
#ALifeRemembered
Noel and Liam Gallagher appear to have settled their differences and, if the truce holds, will play massive concerts in London and at Manchester’s Heaton Park in 2025
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“..who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly..”
'I was concerned for members of the public and knew we had to stop him.'
PC Gerrard and PC Mulhall reflect on how they instinctively confronted a knife-wielding man in Leicester Square last year, sustaining serious injuries.
Today, their attacker has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.
Every day, courageous officers put their lives on the line to protect Londoners