UK Policing News

A police officer was hit with his own baton in a chaotic stop and search - before the suspect fled on an e-bike. https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15953973/police-officer-hit-baton-stop-search-e-bike.html Let,s hope they find him and put him before the court for causing grievous bodily harm with intent after the alleged attack and the officer is ok.👍

Four people have been sentenced for their individual roles in the running of the 'Ace' drugs line. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/july/four-sentenced-for-roles-in-running-drugs-line/ Good work by WMP in bringing down the drug dealers👍 and three behind bars but again the woman got was handed a two-year suspended sentence should have been jailed for drug dealing as well☹️

A prolific sex offender who targeted children by masquerading as a caretaker will serve 18 years in prison, after an investigation by the Metropolitan Police presented indisputable forensic evidence. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-after-dna-matched-to-sexual-assaults-in-the-90s-511131 finding his DNA is a good result and brought to justice and now behind bars.👏

A teenage boy is appearing at court today charged in connection with a shooting in Alum Rock. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/july/teenage-boy-charged-following-shooting-in-alum-rock/ Not good when you get a 17-year-old boy using a firearm and been charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.☹️

A drug dealer from Winsford has been ordered to pay back more than £88,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA). https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2026/7/man-ordered-to-pay-back-thousands-of-pounds-of-criminal-gains/ Good news when drug dealers are taken down and have to pay back that includes cash, designer items, jewellery, vehicles and funds held across various bank accounts.👏

A rapist who sexually abused three young girls has been jailed for more than 20 years for his deplorable, historic crimes. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/july/rapist-jailed-over-child-sex-attacks/ Good work by police in bringing this man to justice and locked up for 20 years👏

A former police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison at the High Court in Edinburgh. https://www.scotland.police.uk/what-s-happening/news/2026/july/former-officer-sentenced-for-violent-and-non-recent-sexual-offences-in-highlands-and-western-isles/ Got no time for police officers who commit rape and now will serve time behind bars.😡

A man who stabbed a university student to death with a ceremonial knife has been found guilty of murder. Vickrum Digwa used a 21cm (8in) blade he said he carried as part of his Sikh faith to kill 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was walking home from a night out in Southampton on 3 December. A very sad story, a young man lay dying, on the floor, those who are ment to help, ignored his pleas, and handcuffed him and arrested the young man, for something he allegedly had said. sorry, does not cut it, the officers involved in my option should stand in a dock.

A teenager's in custody after officers seized a machete in Winson Green. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/july/teenager-arrested-as-machete-seized-in-winson-green/ Good job the officers seized a machete and arrested the teenager before any body got hurt👍

Two men have been sentenced after admitting to producing a multi-million pound cannabis farm in Bradford. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/two-men-sentenced-multi-million-pound-cannabis-farm-bradford Good work by WYP in shutting down the cannabis farm 👏but the sentence given to the men is 27 months, and Nguyen was sentenced to 24 months is a joke for The drugs are thought to have had a street value of £6.2 million pounds. ☹️

A man has been jailed after a search of a car on the M62 revealed Class A drugs and M-cat worth between £71,780 and £143,560. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2026/june-2026/man-jailed-after-thousands-of-mdma-tablets-and-class-a-drugs-were-found-in-a-car-on-the-m62/ Good stop by officers who found thousands of MDMA tablets and Class A Drugs and arrested the drug dealer and now behind bars👏

A Wiltshire Police officer has been handed a suspended jail sentence after attacking a 13-year-old boy while on duty. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/wiltshire-police-officer-admits-attack-on-boy-13-in-school-uniform-while-on-duty/ar-AA26XUB6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EDGEDSE&cvid=6a44d347a2d74a77baa7891aca8a589a&ei=23 not good for a officer to lose his cool and now lost his job and sentenced to eight weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to complete unpaid work☹️

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8wppwdxl6o Police have launched a criminal investigation into an officer accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to "create evidential material in a number of cases". I am really, really uncomfortable about this. It's only a matter of time before there is a serious miscarriage of justice and an innocent person goes to jail because an officer used AI and the AI hallucinated evidence. If you are using AI, then you need to double check everything that it says, and I do literally mean everything. You can't just check a couple of things and say 'it looks like it's working fine'. Dip checking doesn't work, because the AI can e…

We are welcoming the sentencing of a man to four years following an incident in Kirkdale in January in which an imitation firearm was fired at officers. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2026/june-2026/man-jailed-for-four-years-following-domesticfirearms-incident-in-kirkdale/ good work by MSP in bring him to justice and now behind bars.👏

A violent man who threw boiling water from a kettle over an officer and punched another as they tried to detain him has been jailed for more than 14 years. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/june/man-jailed-for-more-than-14-years-for-throwing-boiling-water-over-officer/ What this man done to the officer when arrested has now been given14 years and six months and hope the officer makes a full recovery.