A CHIEF CONSTABLE was suspended last night after an inquiry into the fatal police shooting of a man as he stood naked by his bed.

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR BEN BULLOCK: The second-in-command of the Lawrence case faces seven charges of neglect. The Police Complaints Authority say he displayed "considerable indifference" when an informer named five youths a day after the murder, and failed to call in the witness protection team when informants were threatened.

POLICE CHIEFS could be prosecuted under new human rights legislation for failing to prevent deaths in custody, an independent investigations body warns today.

THE METROPOLITAN Police is prepared to "take a beating" when the report of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry is published this month, John Grieve, the senior Scotland Yard officer in charge of investigating racially motivated crime, said yesterday.

SCOTLAND YARD will today appeal to the public for help in finding the murderers ofMichael Menson, a musician who died after being set on fire.

ONE OF the country's most senior police officers has been suspended after accusations of "harassment and assault", it was announced yesterday.

CS SPRAYS being used by more than 100,000 police officers contain a "hazardous" solvent that is too toxic to be safe, a Home Office commissioned report has found.

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SCOTLAND YARD is to re- investigate the suspected racist murder of a black musician who had been set alight in the street, it was announced last night.

Sir: The Police Complaints Authority has only itself to blame for the fact that relatives of those who have died in police custody feel its conference is yet another arena that excludes them ("Custody deaths forum `biased'", 30 September). The PCA is aware that the families that Inquest has supported over the last 17 years have felt continually frustrated about their marginalisation from the inquest process.

UP TO pounds 100m is wasted each year on training programmes for Britain's police officers, and their failure is linked to the high level of deaths in custody, says an independent report.

CS SPRAY has replaced the truncheon as the first line of defence for Britain's police, less than three years after it was introduced as a weapon for use only in extreme circumstances when officers are under direct physical threat.

Increasing numbers of police officers are being reported for sexually harassing and assaulting female colleagues and members of the public, a complaints body disclosed yesterday.