UK Policing News

Detectives have charged a man and a woman with the murder of George Eric Rogers from Enfield. https://news.met.police.uk/news/two-charged-in-enfield-murder-investigation-480457

The Angiolini Inquiry lays bare how Wayne Couzens was able to join the police. https://news.met.police.uk/news/response-from-the-commissioner-to-todays-angiolini-inquiry-report-480182

A man who preyed on men to rob them has been sentenced. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-who-preyed-on-gay-community-jailed-for-robberies-480345

A Ferrari stolen from Gerhard Berger in Italy in 1995 has been recovered after a four-day investigation led by the Met. https://news.met.police.uk/news/organised-vehicle-crime-unit-recover-ferrari-stolen-in-italy-28-years-ago-480340

A rising number of prison officers and staff have been investigated for allegedly giving drugs to criminals behind bars https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1873209/drugs-prison-staff-arrested-supplying-criminals

A former police officer who was caught playing rugby while off sick with a back injury has quit before he could be sacked. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1873008/police-officer-off-sick-with-back-injury-caught-playing-rugby

A Lincoln response officer is taking on a challenge with a difference… a 10K run in full riot gear. https://www.lincs.police.uk/news/lincolnshire/news/2024/feb-2024/lincoln-officer-to-run-10k-in-riot-gear/ Good luck and hope you raise the raise money for awareness for the charity COPS (Care of Police Survivors) and other members will join in.👍

Police investigating a large series of attacks on cash machines have charged two further suspects – taking the total number of defendants to four. https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news/nottinghamshire/news/news/2024/march/more-suspects-charged-over-large-series-of-cash-machine-attacks/

The firearm was later discarded and left on the road in Clapham Common https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/gallery/clapham-shooting-scene-photos-pub-28740385

A doctor employed at a Warwickshire hospital has been convicted of downloading/accessing child abuse material after a National Crime Agency investigation. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/doctor-found-with-child-abuse-images-is-sentenced

This is the dramatic moment five thieves are caught by police hours after stealing £90,000 of premium booze from a gin distillery. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13144853/thieves-caught-motorway-police-sting-hours-stole-gin-rum-champagne-heist.html Good arrest by the police👍 But the sentence given was not long enough after ramming the police car and the manner of the driving.

We are aware of a planned demonstration in Birmingham city centre today (Friday). https://www.west-midlands.police.uk/news/demonstration-expected-birmingham-city-centre

Police should record suspects' sex as well as their gender, a crime tsar has said, after his force recorded the crimes of a transgender murderer and cat-killer as committed by a woman. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13142841/Thames-Valley-Police-boss-seeks-change-law-force-calls-transgender-murderer-woman.html

A man has been sentenced admitting to the manslaughter of 45-year-old James Donnelly after subjecting him to a violent and sustained attack at his home in Hounslow. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-given-hospital-order-following-fatal-attack-in-hounslow-480267

A serving officer has been dismissed without notice for sending highly offensive racist and misogynistic messages to a woman. https://news.met.police.uk/news/serving-officer-dismissed-following-misconduct-hearing-480181