UK Policing News

We’ve arrested 12 individuals from across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cleveland connected with drug supply this morning (Tuesday 17 December 2024). https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2024/december/a-dozen-arrests-made-linked-to-drugs-supply/ Good work by the GMP and arresting more drug dealers and removed from the streets.👏

A scandal-hit police force has begged for emergency Government funding to cover the salaries of three chief constables at the same time. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14195505/Scandal-hit-police-force-begs-emergency-Government-funding-cover-salaries-THREE-chief-constables-time-two-suspended.html Why are police paying for three chief constables all at the same time 🤔? this cant be fair to waste money like this.🤔

Following an investigation by our City of Manchester South Division, a 37-year-old man was sentenced to four-and-a-half-years for sexual offences on Thursday 12 December 2024. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2024/december/mental-health-nurse-is-jailed-for-sexual-offences-against-a-patient/ Good work by the GMP but in this case this man should have been given a lot longer sentence for this type of crime.😠

A senior member of an organised crime group (OCG) that ran an amphetamine lab in Scotland, and trafficked heroin and cocaine, has been sentenced following a National Crime Agency investigation. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-venetic-leading-figure-of-gang-that-shipped-class-a-drugs-between-england-and-scotland-is-jailed Good work by the NCA and getting a drug dealer behind bars and off the streets.👏

The woman said she felt like her neck was going to snap when he grabbed the back of her hair https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/police-officer-denies-raping-woman-30600491 Cant comment till after the trial is over👍

Top level drug dealers have been jailed for more than 500 years, thanks to the work of the Bedfordshire Police Operation Costello team. https://www.beds.police.uk/news/bedfordshire/news/2024/12-december/drug-dealers-in-bedfordshire-jailed-for-more-than-500-years-thanks-to-op-costello/ Good work by Bedfordshire police in getting drug dealers gangs off the streets and a good sentence given to them.👏

The incidents are being jointly investigated by our Serious and Organised Crime Group and Oldham Challenger teams and we have already made 17 arrests and recovered a firearm and a number of weapons. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2024/december/officers-make-17-arrests-in-relation-to-firearms-discharges-as-firearm-and-dangerous-weapons-taken-off-the-streets-of-greater-manchester/ great work by the GMP with arrests and getting guns off the streets👏

A gunman has been jailed for more than 15 years after firing a potentially lethal Skorpion weapon in a Smethwick street. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2024/december/mail-jailed-for-shooting-in-smethwick/ He must think he is a somebody to hire Rolls Royce. One dangerous man off the streets and now serving time and a Skorpion weapon removed from the streets. 👍

A man who tried to smuggle £4m worth of ketamine into the UK has been jailed for three years and nine months after National Crime Agency (NCA) officers recovered footage of him buying wood to conceal the drugs. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/dutch-man-caught-on-shop-cctv-jailed-for-smuggling-ketamine-worth-4-million People like him who deal in drugs should have been given a lot longer then the one given😒

Twenty firearms have been seized from a suspected gun factory following an intelligence-led operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/twenty-firearms-seized-from-suspected-gun-factory Good work by the NCA in stopping guns getting onto the streets.👏

Three men have today been jailed for their roles in an organised crime group that smuggled several billion pounds worth of heroin, cocaine and cannabis into the UK. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/three-men-jailed-for-their-roles-in-crime-group-behind-united-kingdom-s-biggest-ever-drugs-conspiracy Nice sentence given and more drug dealers off the streets.👏

A police officer who fell for a convicted criminal and fed him secret information to try to hold their relationship together has been jailed for four years. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14186967/police-officer-fell-criminal-secret-info-jailed.html Words fail me what she has done .😠

An investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct into the actions of armed officers who arrested a child who had been playing with a water pistol has found they acted reasonably and correctly. https://news.met.police.uk/news/iopc-investigation-clears-firearms-officers-of-wrongdoing-491822 Being a black child has nothing to do with this case he had what looked like a gun and police acted in the right manner and quite right they have been cleared👍

The force has said it is "disappointed the union felt such action was necessary" - but insisted contingency plans were in place. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1987647/met-police-london-staff-strike-work-from-home Should be working in the office and not WFH shame they have a soft workforce like this.🤔