UK Policing News

The Met Police has apologised for a crackdown which saw homeless tents thrown into bin trucks, with Sir Mark Rowley admitting the force had acted 'unlawfully'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12975503/Met-Police-apologises-crackdown-saw-homeless-tents-ruined-Sir-Mark-Rowley-admits-acted-unlawfully-issuing-dispersal-order.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/17/metropolitan-police-utterly-demoralised/ Some good points in there but a few I am not sure about. The suggestion that officers will hesitate to use their powers in case they get investigated. What would officers like to happen, that would make them not hesitate in using their powers? I know it can't be nice having the IOPC on your case but if an officer is accused of wrongdoing doesn't that accusation need to be properly investigated?

A Met police officer is under investigation for allegedly sharing CCTV footage of an NHS worker being raped who later died. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12982079/Met-police-officer-investigated-CCTV-sex-assault-man-court-charged-raping-killing.html

A man who laundered money for people smuggling networks involved in small boats crossings has been found guilty, following a National Crime Agency investigation. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/convicted-the-east-london-money-launderer-who-took-payments-for-small-boats-crossings Nice work by the NCA.

An officer who attempted to avoid a fine for driving a police car down a prohibited road in Barking has been dismissed from the Met. https://news.met.police.uk/news/officer-dismissed-after-dishonestly-attempting-to-avoid-driving-penalty-478035

PC Dean Dempster is accused of the committing the horrific crime while on duty in Oldham in December last year. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1856675/police-officer-duty-sex-attack-girl

Shameless criminals are roaming the streets of London to watch the elderly and vulnerable take money out of ATMs before following them onto buses and pickpocketing them. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12968743/Britains-shameless-crooks-Thieves-watch-elderly-withdraw-cash-ATMs-pickpocketing-London-buses-Met-launches-crackdown-tackle-heartless-gangs.html

The Met have today released details of an innovative undercover operation to target watch robbery using its new, more precise approach to tackle crime affecting London’s communities. https://news.met.police.uk/news/undercover-officers-target-luxury-watch-robbers-in-the-west-end-and-soho-477955 Good hope they do more undercover work to keep our streets safe.👏

A man who offered fraudulent motor insurance policies to Sudanese nationals living in the UK has been sentenced. https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2024/january/ghost-broker-who-targeted-sudanese-community-sentenced/

A teenager is being quizzed after a policeman, hit by an electric motorcycle, was left fighting for his life. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1855891/policeman-electric-motorbike-mown-down And a link on Wiltshire police website. https://www.wiltshire.police.uk/news/wiltshire/news/ Not to clear how the officer is and hope he makes a full recovery and they have arrested the person.

A National Crime Agency director was fired for using a personal email account to send "sensitive" and "secret" material after declassifying the information, the Sunday Express can reveal. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1855346/NCA-crimefighter-sacked-email-breach

Top politicians are trying to influence police operations by putting senior officers under pressure either directly or via the media, a watchdog has found. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-chiefs-accuse-significant-political-figures-of-improper-interference/ar-AA1mKvAb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=WSEDSE&cvid=bcdf0e97497f4535a9e3b3af4bce1f96&ei=56

Officers have arrested five men and discovered a cannabis farm following reports of a burglary in Winsford. https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2024/1/five-men-arrested-and-cannabis-farm-uncovered-following-winsford-burglary/ Fantastic result for police and a end to this cannabis farm 👍

An independent review commissioned by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, to consider allegations made in the 2017 BBC documentary The Betrayed Girls about child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester, has published its findings. The review team’s report covers the widespread organised sexual exploitation of children within Rochdale from 2004 to 2012. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2024/january/response-to-the-review-into-operation-span-and-the-investigation-of-non-recent-child-sexual-exploitation-in-rochdale/

Detectives investigating a plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange have arrested six people. https://news.met.police.uk/news/six-arrested-over-plot-to-disrupt-london-stock-exchange-477813