UK Policing News

Lord Alan Sugar has thanked Essex Police following an impressive investigation by the Economic Crime Unit, after the daughters of a serial burglar have been ordered to pay back almost £100,000. https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2024/july/lord-alan-sugar-thanks-essex-police-following-investigation-by-the-economic-crime-unit/

Just before 9pm on Sunday 30 June, we were called by members of the public to reports of a suspected firearms discharge. Residents reported hearing three gunshots in the Weaste area of Salford, and through initial enquiries, we established that several shots had been fired at an address on Jane Street in Salford. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2024/july/officers-instinct-leads-to-key-arrest-in-connection-with-salford-firearms-discharge/

A senior Met Police firearms inspector has been arrested on suspicion of rape. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13598633/met-police-firearms-inspector-arrest-suspicion-rape.html

A hulking 6ft 5 knifeman laughed as he attacked two police officers with a Stanley knife before being tasered, as he is jailed for six years for attempted GBH. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13596517/Shocking-moment-6ft-5in-knifeman-laughs-stabs-two-police-officers-tasered-tries-run-away.html should have got a lot longer sentence for this attack on police as judges don.t seem to hand out longer sentences or this type of crime.

Four men have been jailed for their part in an organised crime spree of robberies and ram raids across the Midlands, many of which happened during coronavirus lockdown. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2024/july/gang-of-raiders-jailed-after-spree-targeting-shops-and-businesses/

Wiktoria Packowska was stopped at the border with £50k in her leggings and £12k in her handbag https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/benefit-thief-who-pocketed-700k-29463389 Job well done by police stopping this pair before they left the UK and have been charged.

A man has been jailed after a Met investigation accessed his Encrochat device and discovered an operation using south London gangs to supply cocaine and cannabis with an estimated street value of £3million. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-investigation-leads-to-11-year-sentence-for-footballer-intent-on-flooding-south-london-with-drugs-485922 decent sentence for this drug dealer.👍

A man has been sentenced for an armed robbery carried out at a bank in Sydenham after swift analysis of evidence helped police to identify him. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-for-sydenham-bank-robbery-after-fast-time-enquiries-led-to-his-identification-485813

Armed robbers disguised as police officers tied up a wealthy director's wife and daughter and held them at gunpoint in a raid on their £2.5m Sandbanks home. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13587507/Armed-robbers-disguised-police-officers-raid-wealthy-directors-Sandbanks-home-tie-wife-daughter-gunpoint-steal-designer-watches-handbags-jewellery.html Good job the police found them from there DNA and how Police later found online orders for police ID wallets and lanyards.👍

A Thames Valley Police officer who pursued an “improper relationship with a female suspect that he had been investigating” has admitted misconduct in public office. https://policeprofessional.com/news/officer-who-pursued-improper-relationship-with-a-female-suspect-guilty-of-misconduct-in-public-office/

Last week Adderley was dismissed after being found to have committed gross misconduct and breached the standards of professional behaviour for his dishonesty relating to his service record. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/furious-northamptonshire-police-officers-say-sacked-chief-constable-nick-adderley-has-spat-in-the-faces-of-war-veteran-cops/ar-BB1p2kH1?ocid=BingNewsSerp

A senior police officer who had a string of affairs with junior colleagues while on duty and on police premises has been sacked. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13554453/Married-police-officer-sacked-lying-affairs-string-junior-staff-including-supposedly-chairing-probe-death-infant.html Makes me wonder what type of police officers serving can,t keep there zip up.

Manchester Crown Square Court this week sentenced the final defendant of five, after an investigation into a firearms discharge at a shop in Cheadle, Stockport in 2021 and subsequent conspiracy to possess firearms. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2024/june/five-men-who-subjected-residents-of-stockport-to-a-reign-of-terror-are-sentenced-to-a-total-of-21-and-a-half-years/

‘Dodgy’ Chief Constable Nick Adderley stays away from gross misconduct hearing summing up in Northampton Skulduggery, falsehoods, dishonest assertions, Macbeth and mendacity of the highest order – some of the words used in the summing up of the gross misconduct hearing of Nick Adderley Chief Constable of Northamptonshire. https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/people/dodgy-chief-constable-nick-adderley-stays-away-from-gross-misconduct-hearing-summing-up-in-northampton-4673622

Two men involved in the handover of a firearm, which was recovered from a minicab in south east London, have been jailed. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/two-men-jailed-over-firearms-and-ammunition-seizures