UK Policing News

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

A Metropolitan Police volunteer who claimed £10,000 in false expenses avoided prison. Special constable Danny Taylor submitted countless duplicate expense claims of no more than £50 which totalled £10,051. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/met-police-volunteer-who-claimed-10-000-in-false-expenses-avoids-prison/ar-AAZpXKg?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=1670ef6392fa4d31841c628d51c07442

London has lost a staggering 75 per cent of its police stations since 2008, shocking figures revealed today - as new research linked the closures to rises in serious crime. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13546635/closure-police-stations-london-fuelling-crime.html IT is sad and a Disgrace that police stations are closed around London 😠

The National Crime Agency has dismissed five officers for gross misconduct after an internal investigation. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/firearms-trainers-dismissed-after-internal-investigation

Reading through the various news reports contained within this topic, it appears to be all negative news in regards to UK Police Forces.🙁