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The Independent reports on warnings of a growing people smuggling threat as Channel crossings rise, according to Interpol’s Director of organised and emerging crime, Richard Chambers.

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PA reports that Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will be questioned by the London Assembly later this morning. They will be asked about what steps are being taken to keep Londoners safe and to support the reform of the Metropolitan Police Service.

The Daily Mail has published an interactive map showing the UK’s shoplifting hotspots, as shoplifting in England and Wales rose by 26 per cent last year.

The i reports that ‘hundreds of police officers sacked and barred from the profession are keeping their identities hidden’. 

Police Oracle reports on the IOPC’s statement that the views expressed by Sal Naseem, former IOPC regional director, in the BBC Panorama documentary on Chris Kaba, do not represent the organisation’s views.