Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area. Britain’s largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted... 

The deputy mayor of London, Kit Malthouse, said Met Police have made over 450 arrests liked with the violence and disturbances across London, among which 100 have been charged. Defending the performance of the London Metropolitan police in the last three nights of massive violence in the capital, Malthouse said: “It was a very stretching night. I feel for all those people who have woken up this...