UK Policing News

#CHARGED | We've charged a Birmingham man with offences including false imprisonment, three counts of serious assault, making threats to kill and administering poison with intent to endanger life. https://www.west-midlands.police.uk/news/birmingham-man-charged-offences-including-false-imprisonment-serious-assaults-making-threats

Worried officers have proposed setting up food banks for police recruits, The Independent can reveal, as one in 10 admit to relying on handouts. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/living-hand-to-mouth-record-number-of-police-officers-turning-to-food-banks/ar-BB1kN7Dc?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f95e8bbdd0a445f196f813ca852cd88c&ei=31

A police officer filmed himself having sex with a woman at a work Christmas party, then shared it with colleagues, a misconduct hearing has been told. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqe33jy1q56o

A former Devon and Cornwall Police officer has been found not guilty of raping a woman while on duty. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-68724413

A Met police officer has been dismissed after he made inappropriate remarks to female officers while on duty. https://news.met.police.uk/news/officer-dismissed-after-making-inappropriate-comments-481884

Two men have been jailed after they were found hiding on the roof of a warehouse which had been turned into a cannabis factory. https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news/nottinghamshire/news/news/2024/april/pair-caught-hiding-on-roof-of-cannabis-factory-warehouse/

Police pulled over a car packed-full of cannabis plants and arrested a suspect at the roadside. https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news/nottinghamshire/news/news/2024/april/cannabis-filled-car-pulled-over-following-rapid-police-response/ Nice find for Police 👍

Police officers in Preston have been blending in with shoppers and store staff as they continue to tackle shoplifting in the city. https://lancashire.police.uk/news/south/plain-clothed-shoplifting-operation-in-preston/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/01/hate-act-will-lessen-public-trust-in-the-force-says-scottish-police-chief Enforcing Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act will “certainly” reduce public trust in the police, according to the general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation.

A child was rescued from the River Brent on Saturday by brave and quick-thinking police officers. https://news.met.police.uk/news/officers-rescue-child-from-west-london-river-481852

A man has been arrested by detectives investigating an incident in Hanworth which left a man with critical injuries. https://news.met.police.uk/news/arrest-made-by-officers-investigating-assault-in-hanworth-481848

An east London man who repeatedly raped a woman has been jailed following a Met investigation. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-following-met-rape-investigation-481851

This is the astonishing moment a Met Police officer told a Jewish woman that swastikas 'need to be taken into context' after she complained about the Nazi symbol being displayed on banners during a pro-Palestine march in London. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13256743/Moment-Met-Police-confronted-Jewish-woman-officer-told-swastikas-arent-necessarily-anti-Semitic-banners-spotted-pro-Palestine-march-London.html

Shocking video footage shows hundreds of children still wearing their school uniform turn into a violent mob and overwhelming shopping centre security. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1883086/Schoolchildren-chaos-Milton-Keynes-shopping-centre-Easter

As part of our ongoing pledge to listen and tackle crime within communities across London, nine people in Romford and Woolwich were arrested by officers with the assistance of Live Facial Recognition technology. https://news.met.police.uk/news/nine-people-arrested-after-live-facial-recognition-deployment-481839