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Met Police volunteer special constable dismissed over intimate images on work phone

Rank
Running
24h
Updated
14h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
6
Regions
1
Countries
2
Languages
2

Evening Standard United Kingdom · English 10 Oct, 05:43 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

Read it also in Hrvatski (1) · +0 languages

Read at Evening Standard

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 29 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Evening Standard, 10 Oct, 05:43 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 10 Oct, 09:19 UTC.
  3. Second country: Croatia, with 24sata.
  4. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

29 of 29 hours

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The 2 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

  • Europe 6 outlets · 2 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. Evening Standard 10 Oct, 05:43 UTC
  2. BBC News +3h 36m
  3. Sky News +3h 40m
  4. Daily Mail +6h 36m
  5. Daily Mirror +11h 3m

Latest arrivals

  1. 24sata 10 Oct, 19:54 UTC
  2. Daily Mirror 10 Oct, 16:46 UTC
  3. Daily Mail 10 Oct, 12:20 UTC
  4. Sky News 10 Oct, 09:24 UTC
  5. BBC News 10 Oct, 09:19 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 2 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 1 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 2: Croatia, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Croatian.
Timeline
Earliest article Evening Standard, 10 Oct 2026, 05:43 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 10:20 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 19:54 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.25, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
10 Oct 2026 364 2.55 6 2 6 2 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 10:20 UTC · Updated 19:54 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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  • 24sata Croatia 10 Oct, 19:54 UTC
    Šef policije službenim mobitelom snimao intimne fotke žene pa ostao bez posla!
  • Daily Mirror United Kingdom 10 Oct, 16:46 UTC
    Chief of Met Police volunteer force sacked over intimate images after Palantir probe
  • Daily Mail United Kingdom 10 Oct, 12:20 UTC
    Volunteer police chief is fired after Palantir probe found sexual images of woman on work phone
  • Sky News United Kingdom 10 Oct, 09:24 UTC
    Volunteer police force chief sacked after using work phone to capture sexual images
  • BBC News United Kingdom 10 Oct, 09:19 UTC
    Met's Special Constabulary head fired after AI tool found deleted intimate images on work phone
  • Evening Standard United Kingdom 10 Oct, 05:43 UTC
    Chief of Met Police's volunteer force sacked after using work phone to capture 'sexual images'
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