21/01/2018 London News

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I'm Asad Ahmad.

A police officer, who was

removed from doing any

work with the public

after a suspect he was

apprehending in Dalston died,

has been told no legal action

will be taken against him.

The Crown Prosecution Service made

the decision, months

after the Police Watchdog itself

recommended that the officer

should be suspended.

Here's Frankie McCamley.

He was the third young black man

to die within the space of five

weeks in the capital,

following contact with the police.

20-year-old Rashan Charles

was a passenger in a car

being chased by officers.

He got out and ran into

a local convenience store.

CCTV footage from this shop

where the arrest took place shows

Mr Charles walking in around 1:45am

in the morning, pursued

by a uniformed police officer.

There is a struggle on the floor,

another man in plain

clothes is seen helping.

Mr Charles is then handcuffed

and taken to hospital by paramedics,

but just over an hour later,

he is pronounced dead.

His death caused upset

and anger in the area.

The fragile trust in the police

was put under intense strain.

Peaceful protests

descended into riots.

After an investigation

by the Crown Prosecution Service

into whether the officer involved

in the arrest could be charged,

a spokesperson has said...

Well, the family of course

are devastated, angry and upset that

once again they are being denied

an opportunity to access justice.

The statement from the CPS follows

the IPCC's recommendation that

the officer should be suspended.

It's just reinforced people's

stereotypes and perceptions,

that the police are untouchable

and the members of the black

community are expendable items.

The cause of Rashan Charles'

death is still unclear.

An inquest will take place in June.

Levels of knife crime

in London are soaring,

with fatal stabbings

at their highest rate

for nearly a decade.

Politicans and police say they're

working hard to find a solution -

and one of the places they're

looking at - is an area of the UK,

which until a few years ago -

was the most violent place

in the developed world.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner

Cressida Dick getting her hands

dirty, looking than I was in London

this week. She is desperate to cut

the number of weapons on our

streets, and the experience of

Scotland could hold the answer.

Glasgow in particular were suffering

an epidemic of violence and knife

crime until around a decade ago. It

was just like the problem London has

now, but on an even bigger scale.

And one of the hundreds of stabbings

every year was carried out by

Desmond.

I was in a flat in Glasgow

where I stayed, and someone tried to

take my drugs office I had to pull

my knife out. It was the first time

I went to use it, and I was scared.

Things got so bad, the United

Nations found that a Scot was three

times more likely to suffer a

violent assault than an American,

and 30 times more likely than

somebody in Japan. But now those

figures have nosedived, and it is

credited to believing that life

crime is a health issue.

Essentially

the public health approach Ditcheat

inside what your problem is, you

have some data and analysis, you

look at what interventions might

work to deal with the problem, you

test them out, and if they work you

scaled up and tried to reach as many

people as you possibly can.

Within a

few years, violent crime has dropped

to a 50 year locomotive handling an

offensive weapon down by nearly 70%.

The key to it is preventing it from

happening in the first place. That

is about working with young people

who might be getting involved with

violent crime and trying to

understand exactly why they are

carrying knives and why they think

they need to get involved in

violence. And what you can do to

prevent them from getting involved

in the first place.

Scotland is very

different to London, 32 boroughs and

different mechanisms and governments

but absolutely Vermont to make sure

we have this public health approach,

alongside really good effective

enforcement.

It will take time to

see whether the new scheme is as

successful as it was in Scotland,

but even the possibility of changing

knife culture is an attractive one

to the authorities. Nearly £50,000

has been raised to try to stop the

release of sex attacker John

Warboys. The government announced

last week it went be seeking a

review over the parole board's

decision to release the former

London cabbie from prison. Let's get

the forecast.

London cabbie from prison. Let's get

the forecast. It will turn dry this

evening and stay dry overnight, with

plenty of cloud and temperatures

will actually rise into tomorrow

morning. Start off between eight and

six overseas, so a very different

day of weather across the capital.

We should stay dry, some good spells

of sunshine and brightness emerging

with quite a bit of cloud as well,

temperatures in central London,

double figures, and it will be

milder still on Tuesday but rather

grey through the afternoon with some

more rain in the forecast on

Wednesday.

more rain in the forecast on

Wednesday. That said, I will be back

at 10:20pm. Lots more on the Twitter

feed and Facebook page, but until

later this evening, have a good

evening.