Police urge media not to identify child arrested over knife killing of teacher
The Sun remains the only major media outlet to have named the schoolboy alleged to have stabbed teacher Ann Maguire…
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Former police employees win libel case against Sunday Telegraph
Two Greater Manchester Police employees have won libel damages against The Sunday Telegraph over claims they benefitted from having sexual…
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Attorney General: police should name high-profile suspects identified by the media
The Government’s top lawyer has told police that they should confirm suspects’ names when they have already been identified by…
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Guidelines on police friendships with journalists a ‘top-down, paranoid, defensive over-reaction’
A leading national press crime reporter has attacked 'paranoid' new police guidelines recommending that officers declare personal relationships with journalists.…
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New police guidelines place journalists in the "same bracket" as criminals, according to the Daily Mail. The paper's report came…
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College of Policing says forces should name suspects when charged, but not when arrested
The College of Policing has issued nationwide guidelines saying arrested persons should not be named unless there are exceptional circumstances.…
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Police Federation head: ‘Cops are very reluctant to speak to the media and say how it really is’
The chairman of the Police Federation has warned that police are reluctant to talk to journalists because of the “fear…
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Ex-Scotland Yard PR’s warning over the ‘almost total freeze’ in police-media relations
A former Scotland Yard press officer has warned that the UK model of “policing by consent” is threatened by the…
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