Police to lose access to database used more than 600 million times a year on 1 January.

Preparations being made at ‘every port and access point from Europe’, senior officer say.

The UK will be less safe if it fails to strike a post-Brexit security deal with the EU, Britain's top counter-terrorism officer has said.

Counter-terror chief raises ‘deep concerns’ as key crime-fighting tools will be lost.

Threats to MPs are at "unprecedented" levels, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said. / The Met chief disclosed that the number of crimes reported by MPs more than doubled in 2018 from 151 to 342 and was on course to rise further this year. / Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu told a parliamentary committee Brexit was a "huge driver" behind the increase.

Neil Basu added that a no-deal EU exit would be "very bad" for policing.