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Police have come under attack in a further night of violence in some loyalist areas across Northern Ireland.
On Monday, petrol bombs were thrown at officers in Carrickfergus, while a car was set alight in the Waterside in Londonderry. Police have said the recent attacks were “clearly orchestrated”.
The PSNI is also investigating an “un-notified parade” involving masked men in Jervis Street in Portadown on Monday.
A Met Police officer has been convicted of being a member of a banned neo-Nazi terrorist organisation.
Benjamin Hannam, of Enfield, north London, was found guilty of membership of the banned right-wing extremist group National Action (NA). He was also convicted of lying on his Met Police application and having terror documents detailing knife combat and making explosive devices.
The Metropolitan Police acted “appropriately” at a vigil for Sarah Everard in south London earlier this month, a police watchdog has found.
The force came under intense criticism after women were handcuffed and removed from crowds on Clapham Common.
A report said there was too little communication between officers at the event but their response, amid Covid restrictions, had been “measured”. It called the media coverage a “public relations disaster” for police.
Typhoon jets were scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth to intercept two Russian Tu-142 Bear-F aircraft as they flew close to UK borders.
The aircraft were first detected on Monday morning by Nato and tracked by Norwegian air defences. The interception was handed over to the RAF, which despatched aircraft from the Lossiemouth base in Moray.
The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Dame Cressida Dick, has admitted “there is much more to be done” to improve public trust in the force.
Her comments, which included a stated ambition to increase the number of black officers in the Met, follows criticism from the mother of two black women who were stabbed to death in a park in June. Mina Smallman believes the force “made assumptions” about her daughters and was slow to investigate when Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were reported missing.