UK Policing News

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

The Metropolitan Police's baffling plan to cut the number of murder detectives has left both officers and Londoners outraged. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1855077/Met-Police-murder-detectives-cut This should not happen at all as a mop i don,t agree with this at all.

The majority of police forces allow trans-identifying biologically male officers to strip-search women, research has found. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12936281/Most-police-forces-allow-trans-officers-strip-search-women-campaigners-warn-lead-state-sanctioned-sexual-assault.html

A 'jealous' police officer has been jailed after he tried to murder his ex-girlfriend at a city centre hotel before fleeing the scene and trying to cover his tracks. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1855378/police-officer-jailed-strangle-ex-girlfriend

A former firearms officer who was stripped down to her underwear during a police training course was today awarded more than £820,000 after winning a sex discrimination case against her force. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12944579/Female-firearms-officer-stripped-underwear-police-training-course-wins-sex-discrimination-case-against-force.html