London's Metropolitan Police hired more than 5,000 police officers and staff without required background checks between 2018 ...

London's police force failed to carry out proper checks when hiring thousands of officers, an internal review has found, as ...

Damning review reveals thousands of police officers and staff were not properly checked amid recruitment drive ...

More than 130 officers and staff committed crimes or misconduct after they were not properly vetted, a review has found. | ...

A report found 131 Metropolitan Police officers and staff who were not fully checked went on to commit crime or misconduct.

David Carrick, one of the UK's worst sex offenders, and Cliff Mitchell, who carried out a "campaign of rape" on two victims, ...

The Metropolitan Police hired officers who failed background checks to boost diversity, including a man accused of raping a child.

The policing watchdog is to conduct an inquiry into vetting standards at London’s Metropolitan Police amid fears that as many as 22,000 of the force’s staff may have been recruited without the correct ...

The former Met officer was among 131 rogue officers who committed offences after the force failed to follow vetting ...

Serial rapists David Carrick and Cliff Mitchell were among more than 130 Metropolitan Police officers and staff wrongly hired ...

A man in his 30s has died after he was hit by a police vehicle on an emergency call in south London. The pedestrian was ...