#MetropolitanPolice

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Benjamin Hannam Benjamin Hannam was a probationary Metropolitan Police constable convicted on 1 April 2021 at the Old Bailey of National Action membership, fraud by false representation on his police vetting forms, and possession of terrorist documents, becoming the first serving UK police officer convicted of a terrorism-related offence, with his identification tracing directly to the 2019 Iron March database leak.

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Operation Midland Metropolitan Police investigation of 2014 to 2016 into Carl Beech's false allegations of a VIP abuse ring; it made no arrests and was condemned by the Henriques review for 43 errors.

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Operation Jorica Operation Jorica was a Metropolitan Police internal review of vetting and hiring practices covering the ten years prior to April 2023, published in January 2026, which found that nearly 90 per cent of 5,073 recruits examined had not been subjected to special branch counter-terrorism screening during the Police Uplift Programme recruitment period.