UK Policing News

The City of London Police’s proactive crime operations, supported by Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), has led to over 100 arrests, 19 serious weapons seized and thousands of wraps of drugs taken off the streets in the last year. https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2025/january/over-one-hundred-people-arrested-guns-and-knives-recovered-and-thousands-of-drugs-seized-in-square-mile-anpr-operations/ Good on going work by the The City of London Police’s proactive crime operations 👏

A man has been charged after heroin worth more than £7 million was seized in west London. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/more-than-70-kilos-of-heroin-seized-in-west-london Great work by the NCA with the arrest and stopping drugs getting onto the streets👏

Two men and two women have been arrested after officers from our Kinetic Northbank Organised Crime Team, alongside colleagues from West Yorkshire Police, and the Regional Organised Crime Unit, carried out two simultaneous Misuse of Drugs warrants at addresses in Bradford and Bridlington yesterday (Thursday 30 January). https://www.humberside.police.uk/news/humberside/news/news/december/january/four-arrested-following-drugs-bust-alongside-west-yorkshire-police/ Good work by both police teams and getting more drug dealers off the streets.👏

Two people have been charged with multiple offences linked to producing class C drugs and will appear before court next month. https://www.westmercia.police.uk/news/west-mercia/news/2025/january/two-charged-with-multiple-drugs-production-offences/ Good arrest and more drug dealers off the streets.👏

Three men have been jailed for a combined total of more than 12 years after they scammed people out of cash and jewellery worth a minimum of £416,000. https://www.hampshire.police.uk/news/hampshire/news/news/2025/group-jailed-for-a-total-of-more-than-12-years-after-scamming-people-out-of-cash-and-jewellery-worth-416000/ Good work by Hampshire police in bringing the gang to justice👏and a end to them ripping off with there scam ,but still there sentence given is still to low.☹️

Three men have been sentenced for running a website enabling criminals to defraud victims by circumventing banking anti-fraud checks. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/website-operators-who-promised-fraudsters-instant-profit-if-they-subscribed-to-illegal-service-are-sentenced Good work by bringing down this gang 👏 but again the court has let us down with the sentence given to the three.☹️

A firearms supplier has been jailed after arranging the delivery of 12 lethal weapons, asking neighbours to take in his packages to “avoid his mother knowing how much he had been spending on clothes and shoes”. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/weapons-supplier-put-neighbours-in-the-firing-line good work by the NCA 👏 and a good sentence given by the court and deadly weapons not getting on to the streets.👍

A convicted drug dealer has been given a prison sentence of a year and three months after breaching his Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO). https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/drug-dealer-sentenced-after-serious-crime-prevention-order-breaches They never learn but while he is prison he is off the streets from selling drugs,

On Tuesday 28 January 2025, the Neighbourhood Crime Team (NCT) conducted a warrant at a garage unit in an industrial park, in Oldham, to recover stolen vehicle parts being used for re-sale online. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/january/oldham-neighbourhood-crime-team-seizes-250k-worth-of-stolen-vehicle-parts-after-identifying-them-for-sale-on-buysell-sites/ Good work by Unit (SVEU), with arrests and close down stolen vehicle parts shop.👏

This is the moment a gunman repeatedly opened fire at a rival on a shop car park – before he was arrested at gunpoint by our armed officers. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/january/watch-gunman-who-shot-man-on-birmingham-car-park-is-arrested-by-armed-police/ good job by police made a arrest and getting a gunman off the streets.👏 and received a good sentence👍

Harvey Bell (12/08/2005) of Bennett Drive, Knutsford, has been charged with assault, dangerous driving and possession of a class B drug. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/january/charges-secured-after-officer-injured-whilst-responding-to-an-incident-in-cheadle/ Good arrest by the GMP and secure these charges, which show that assaults on our officers are completely unacceptable.👍

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2025-01-24/retrieving-rudakubanas-internet-history-could-take-years It could take investigators years to uncover what was in the internet browsing history Axel Rudakubana deleted before he left the house to carry out his attack, the officer in charge of the case has said. Why are Merseyside Police claiming it will take years when they could interrogate his devices directly? Clearing your internet history doesn't actually remove that data from the device, if he's cleared it just before his attack and the device obviously hasn't been used since then, there's a good chance that digital forensics could recover quite a lot.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with assaulting a police officer who was knocked unconscious after a pursuit. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-66023985 What this 16 year boy has done to this officer He was charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm hope the officer makes a full recovery and hope he gets a decent sentence by the court,👍

Rian Hitchman (25/08/2004) of no fixed abode was sentenced to two years and Owen Parkes (28/06/2002) of Hanson Street, Bury was jailed for three years and six months at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court on Friday 24 January 2025 after pleading guilty to robbery at a previous hearing. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/january/two-men-have-been-jailed-for-their-roles-in-a-knifepoint-robbery-in-bury/ Good work by the GMP by bringing them to justice but again the court still gave them a low sentence for a violent knifepoint robbery ☹️

National Crime Agency referrals to social media companies led to a 40 per cent increase in takedowns of accounts linked to people smuggling during 2024. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/nca-leads-major-increase-in-takedowns-of-social-media-accounts-linked-to-people-smuggling Good work by the NCA with ongoing work to bring down people smuggling gangs.👏