Metropolitan Police Federation

The Government's campaign to gaily festoon the world and his wife with police powers has taken a new turn which is ominous for cops and citizens alike.

The Metropolitan Police Authority has been busy undertaking a mammoth consultation exercise with the people of London about policing in the capital, although you could be forgiven if it has slipped beneath your radar.

Almost two thirds of people - 64 per cent - polled by Ipsos Mori in the wake of the G20 protests retained favourable opinions and impressions of the police.

Alan Johnson, the latest in a less than illustrious line of Labour Home Secretaries, has castigated the police for having the wrong "mindset" over antisocial behaviour.

The public do not, by and large, accept the Home Secretary's jaundiced view of how local police are dealing with anti-social behaviour.

An officer whose injuries sustained when he was attacked by a group of drunken men forced his retirement has been saved from another crippling blow - this time a financial one - by the Met Federation.

You might like to learn about a group of men and women who, under the personal leadership of the Home Secretary, is toiling to ensure folk can rest easy in their beds at night.

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When is public disorder not public disorder? The events surrounding the G20 demonstrations led to intense scrutiny of police tactics, with the Palace of Westminster's wizard policing experts jostling a gaggle of pressure groups to get their condemnations trumpeted in the media.