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Former close protection officers to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor are being asked to consider carefully whether anything they saw or heard may be relevant to the Metropolitan police's review of the Epstein files, the force said.

well enough to work but not well enough to serve the public in any capacity

A thief who was trying to evade police detection was found wedged behind a boiler during a house raid. Footage shared by the Metropolitan Police on Tuesday (10 February) shows officers making their way through a property when they noticed a limb sticking out from a cupboard. I think there's a dead body, one officer says. Upon opening the door, they discovered an individual tucked behind the boiler.

Quite frankly, the support that officers get is not good enough. New Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police The provisions currently in place don't help officers we see an average of 400-600 traumatic events in our careers, and there's no support for that. Chief officers need to be held to account and they need to do more. They rely on the Federation or the NHS to support officers and get them through their waiting lists. And it's just not acceptable.

Police are braced as protesters are to descend on central London, as concerns were raised over the proximity between pro-Palestine and UK Independence Party (UKIP) rallies. Two counter protests to the right-wing UKIP demo are planned in London tomorrow. Conditions mean each set of protesters are obliged to remain in areas defined by police, with pro-Palestinian demonstrators contained between Downing Street and Whitehall Place and Ukip supporters within the north terrace of Trafalgar Square.

A man in his 30s has died after he was hit by a police vehicle on an emergency call in south London. The pedestrian was struck by the marked vehicle on Borough High Street at 00:34 GMT, the Metropolitan Police said. He was given emergency first aid by officers and treated by paramedics from the London Ambulance Service, but died at the scene.

An 84-year-old man has been charged with 47 historic child sexual offences. The alleged offences took place between the late 1960s and 2010 in locations including London, Kent, Portugal, Turkey and Hungary, according to the Metropolitan Police. They relate to nine separate men, who were aged between eight and 14 at the time.