Tag Archives: Anthony King

After a six-year wait, public get to question Croydon policing

Posted on November 5, 2025 by insidecroydon

Croydon residents have an opportunity to take part in an historic and important event later this month – one of the first public meetings of the Croydon Safer Neighbourhood Board to be held for six years. There’s supposed to be … Continue reading →

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Promotion sees Brittain leave his role as boroughs’ top cop

Posted on February 14, 2025 by insidecroydon

Croydon is to get a new police borough commander, as Andy Brittain is leaving the role he has held since 2019. The Cambridge-educated copper, the most senior officer across Croydon, Sutton and Bromley, has been promoted to Commander, for future … Continue reading →

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Mayor Perry accused of ‘cover up’ over Sentamu case review

Posted on January 24, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Sources at Croydon Town Hall say that they suspect there is a cover-up over what the council’s social workers, Metropolitan Police and community groups knew about Hassan Sentamu, the teenager convicted of the vicious murder of … Continue reading →

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Another stabbing on Church Street, police make two arrests

Posted on July 11, 2024 by insidecroydon

This is Croydon 2024. A Church Street shopkeeper was stabbed this morning, as two boys robbed his store. The boys have been described by an eye-witness as being as young as 13 to 15 years old. It took police officers … Continue reading →

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Poundshop politician who puts the ‘sham’ into shambolic

Posted on June 18, 2024 by insidecroydon

ELECTION SKETCH: It was billed as a ‘hustings’, but was really nothing other than a rally for fringe party TTIP’s star candidate. KEN TOWL went along, so that you – and hundreds of others – didn’t have to “Somebody at … Continue reading →

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Croydon West election just got interesting with Labour split

Posted on June 17, 2024 by insidecroydon

It has been slim pickings for surprises in Croydon’s election campaign so far, but tonight’s rally for a Taking The Initiative Party candidate might just cause a stir, reports our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE Probably the biggest surprise of the … Continue reading →

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Perry fails to hold any safe community meetings in 18 months

Posted on October 2, 2023 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES As the council prepared to hold a not-so-public meeting tonight at the Town Hall, which was called in the aftermath of the tragic killing last week of 15-year-old schoolgirl Elianne Andam in the middle of an … Continue reading →

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Safer Croydon Partnership calls public meeting at Town Hall

Posted on September 29, 2023 by insidecroydon

The Safer Croydon Partnership is to stage a public meeting next Monday, to be attended by senior police officers, the Croydon Mayor and MPs, to discuss the work they are doing “to make our neighbourhoods safer”, they say. The meeting, … Continue reading →

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TfL suspended all ticket inspections after black mum’s arrest

Posted on August 4, 2023 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: It was ‘off the buses’ for London’s ticket inspectors for a week after the flashpoint when a black mum was handcuffed in front of her child on Whitehorse Road, while the police watchdog is appealling for witnesses Transport for … Continue reading →

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Watchdog to answer public questions over policing incidents

Posted on July 26, 2023 by insidecroydon

Senior officials from the IOPC – the Independent Office for Police Conduct – will be answering public questions at an open meeting in Croydon this Friday. The Metropolitan Police in Croydon is subject to two high-profile IOPC investigations: one into … Continue reading →

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