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Arrest of republican demonstrators

@10mmsocket:. I see that you deleted material on this on WP:NOTNEWS grounds. [1] You said or the moment I would argue WP:NOTNEWS. If this blows back on the police and there is further media coverage, or any sort of enquiry then it may be worthy of re-addition

There has been further media coverage, and today there is a report that the matter will be investigated by a committee of MPs. [2] Do you think that it is now appropriate to add something to the article?

Any comments from anyone else?

Sweet6970 (talk) 10:32, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For me, that 'controversies' section is already massively oversized, and would benefit from substantial pruning. It seems to suffer from a certain amount of 'recentism' too - there is nothing at all about, for example, the Guildford Four, and there is a one-sentence (unsourced) paragraph about the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, there are two sentences about the Macpherson's 1998 finding that the met was institutionally racist, but then there are entire screens' worth of text given over to stuff from 2022 onwards - including an enormous 21-sentence paragraph with eight citations about the strip-searching of Child Q. It seems tp me like a lot of this ought to be hived off into a separate article, entitled something like 'Discrimination within the Metropolitan Police'. As for this particular case, I'm in no doubt that this is currently receiving a lot of attention - it's been the main news story on the radio since the coronation - but I think it would probably be better covered in the article about the coronation, rather than here. Girth Summit _(blether) 10:53, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Inf: There is a separate article on the History of the Metropolitan Police. It was Surrey Police who were involved in the Guildford Four.

I agree there is a problem with the Controversies section – but then, there have been a lot of controversies lately. In view of the current state of the Met – in special measures – I think that the controversy about the arrests of republicans is relevant to this article (though it might also be mentioned in an article on the coronation). Sweet6970 (talk) 11:15, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I stand corrected about the Guildford Four - I had it in my head that was the met, but you're right, it was Surrey. Still, I think my point stands - the section is too large, the recent stuff is overrepresented, and overall it needs summarising and trimming more than it needs expansion. Girth Summit _(blether) 11:33, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

More coverage: [3] “A FORMER police chief constable has warned against a “totalitarian police state” following the arrest of anti-monarchy protesters ahead of the coronation on Saturday.” Sweet6970 (talk) 14:34, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New crypto investigation team

Thought of adding a sentence about the new crypto investigation team on the "Specialist units" section and wanted to make sure it's significant enough to be added to that section. Source - https://www.ft.com/content/378a05ac-a12b-41f9-a80c-fc79a36bc44b Vivocj (talk) 20:17, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Controversies

The first part of this section suffers from recentism, being almost completely about 2023/ 2024 matters, and has a undue amount of coverage of pro-Hamas demonstrations. How can it be improved? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:42, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Websites

Is https://www.met.police.uk/ in External links still the official website? If so what is https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/metropolitan-police-service/? What's the difference between them? Mcljlm (talk) 15:23, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The first is the Met's official website, the second a generic website for the British police. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:57, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure I understand Necrothesp. Mcljlm (talk) 22:29, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.met.police.uk/ is the official website for the Metropolitan Police (you can see it printed on all of their vehicles, for example, and in the 'Website' field on all their social-media accounts). The URL https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/metropolitan-police-service/ is a page about the Met Police on another website (the generic website for policing in the UK, which includes a page about each police force). Mpjashby (talk) 10:08, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]