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Stop Search, a new play set in the modern context of frequent police searches of young people will premiere at the end of April at Broadway Theatre, Catford in London.

An urban dancer flash mob took over Trafalgar Square on Saturday March 31 to bring awareness to police discrimination in the controversial stop and search powers. 

Articles in this series examine the NIPB's recent LGB&T report.

The upcoming release of the PSNI's LGB&T report has stirred up questions surrounding gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender members of the police forces in Northern Ireland. 

Tomorrow, a highly anticipated report evaluating the PSNI's interactions with the LGB&T community will be published. 

A fourth man has been sentenced at Belfast Crown Court today in relation to a 'paramilitary style shooting' in the St James area of West Belfast in July 2010.

Regular readers of Fair Cop will know that we have been working with Public Achievement's WIMPS (Where Is My Public Servant?) project to raise public consciousness around the issue of so-called paramilitary 'punishment attacks'. 

Following three reported rapes last week, the BBC has said the total number of reported rapes is now 525 for the year - more than 10 reported rapes a week.

Are you a young person aged 15 - 17? Do you want to earn a GCSE-type qualification? Do you want to combat underage drinking? If you said yes, the PSNI want YOU....

A mother speaks out on Faircop.org - about the brutal attack that left her son with a permanent injury and deep psychological consequences for him and his family.  In her interview, Anna Munster bravely calls for an end to this barbaric practice.