UK Policing News

Home Office cops smashed down doors across the country yesterday amid an 'arms race' against people smugglers. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13319645/Home-Office-cops-kick-door-dawn-raid-smash-sophisticated-people-smuggling-gang-smuggled-50-illegal-migrants-UK-charged-1-000-time-fake-passports.html

A high-ranking member of an organised crime group (OCG) that trafficked heroin and cocaine has been convicted following his extradition by the National Crime Agency. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-venetic-senior-leader-of-merseyside-gang-that-shipped-class-a-drugs-between-england-and-scotland-is-convicted

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/police-officer-seriously-injured-after-being-stabbed-in-the-shoulder-in-enfield/ A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a Met police officer was stabbed in a north London street.

A man has been jailed for nine years after a long-running Met investigation showed he had conspired to supply ecstasy, ketamine, and cannabis. https://news.met.police.uk/news/drug-dealer-jailed-for-nine-years-after-long-running-met-investigation-482557

Four alleged members of an organised crime group that specialises in smuggling criminal cash out of the country and into Albania have been arrested in a National Crime Agency investigation. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/four-arrested-on-suspicion-of-smuggling-money-from-uk-to-albania

This is the shocking moment a 'child' joyrider reverses a stolen police car along a pavement at speed - after an officer abandoned his vehicle to chase a suspect on foot. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13311745/Shocking-moment-child-steals-police-car.html

Two people have been charged with numerous offences following an investigation into reports of a teenager being attacked with a corrosive substance in Vaudrey Road, Stockport, on 24 March. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2024/april/two-charged-following-incident-which-saw-teenager-attacked-with-corrosive-substance-in-stcokport/

Committed criminals caught supplying cocaine in wholesale quantities have been jailed alongside two of their customers thanks to an investigation by our Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU). https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2024/april/organised-crime-group-jailed-for-almost-30-years/

City of London Police working in partnership with the National Crime Agency, has seized multiple strains of hybrid Californian cannabis estimated to have a street value of over half a million pounds. https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2024/april/over-half-a-million-pounds-of-cannabis-seized-as-three-charged/

A serial burglar who targeted properties across east London on Christmas Day has been jailed for six years. https://news.met.police.uk/news/christmas-day-burglar-jailed-after-officers-arrest-him-following-pursuit-482417

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51njyp71vvo A police officer who provided false updates on a harassment case said he did so to keep his workload down. I think it's right that he be sacked for this, but if there is an underlying issue of officers having impossible workloads and pressure from above to get them dealt with, getting rid of one officer won't really address that. I think that ideally, officers should be pushing back against unrealistic expectations from management. Tell them either give us more resources or stop complaining that the work isn't being done fast enough. If they put you on a performance plan for not managing an impossible workload, ch…

She was arrested for alleged firearms offences and assaulting police https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/kingston-police-officers-immediate-fear-28976785

An officer from South Wales Police has been officially dismissed after he was found to have flashed his police badge before inappropriately touching three women on a night out. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2024-04-12/police-officer-flashed-badge-before-inappropriately-touching-women-in-pub

An on-duty officer raped a 20-year-old student in her home after she asked the police for help when her ex-boyfriend threatened to put naked photographs of her on the internet, a court heard today. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13285305/On-duty-officer-37-raped-student-20-home-asked-police-help-ex-boyfriend-threatened-naked-photographs-internet.html

Their crimes were so heinous they have been locked up for decades https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/gallery/locked-up-more-20-years-28955413