UK Policing News

Two men from London have become the fifteenth and sixteenth members of a £100m+ money laundering network to be convicted, following a major National Crime Agency investigation into cash smuggling from the UK to the UAE. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/two-more-convictions-in-100-million-cash-in-suitcases-conspiracy

Londoners will see a significant policing presence this weekend for what is expected to be the first major protest activity of 2024. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-announces-details-of-policing-operation-ahead-of-weekend-protests-477794

A Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with assaulting a woman who was wrongfully arrested in Croydon after being accused of evading a bus fare in front of her young son. PC Perry Lathwood, 49, attached to the Met's Road Traffic Policing Command, will appear in court next month. https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/met-police-officer-involved-wrongful-28436923

A South London man has been jailed for stabbing an off-duty police officer at a fast food restaurant. Harvey Smalling, 20, of Eldred Drive, Orpington, South London was jailed for almost three years, after attacking the victim following a dispute at the restaurant in Strood, Kent. https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/angry-bromley-man-followed-stabbed-28434862 The judge should have given him life for attempted murder has did stab the off duty officer and not just two years and eight months.

A couple have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into cash smuggling and corruption involving airline employees. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/husband-and-wife-arrested-over-alleged-airline-crew-smuggling-plot

The officer's identity was hidden due to ongoing criminal proceedings https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/met-police-hides-identity-officer-28419291

Two cocaine dealers – one of whom also hid £100,000 in cash inside a flat – have been jailed for a total of almost eight years. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/two-men-jailed-after-cocaine-and-cash-seizures

It is understood the alleged grievance against Jo Farrell was made by Deputy Chief Officer David Page, the most senior civilian member of the force's executive team. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/call-for-force-to-come-clean-after-complaint-lodged-against-new-police-scotland-chief/ar-AA1mKSnP?ocid=msedgntp&pc=WSEDSE&cvid=b3e47d14c6804533b1172a96bf9e06f3&ei=10

A Lewisham drug dealer has been jailed after a search warrant carried out by local detectives uncovered a rucksack with three pistols and almost a kilogram of cocaine. https://news.met.police.uk/news/three-firearms-taken-off-the-streets-after-proactive-work-by-lewisham-officers-477635

Three robbers wielding sledgehammers brazenly broke into a family jewellers store in daylight whilst the shop was open and stole Rolex watches collectively valued at £22,000. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12943765/robbers-smash-family-jewellers-rolex-london-suburb.html

A police officer at the centre of 'lesbian nana' viral sagas has been cleared of misconduct over a pepper spray incident in Leeds. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12931107/Police-officer-centre-lesbian-nana-viral-sagas-cleared-misconduct-pepper-spray-incident-Leeds.html

A murder investigation has been launched after a man was stabbed to death near a South London railway station on last night (Monday, January 8). A second person, a 16-year-old boy, was stabbed in the leg nearby but survived. https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/man-stabbed-death-near-strawberry-28413280

Mohammed Sardar used the police computer to pass on information about his cousin who was being held in custody during a money laundering trial which later collapsed due to failures by the CPS https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/corrupt-met-officer-used-police-28411081 Should have gone to jail and not given a nine-month prison sentence suspended for two years with 200 hours unpaid work

Statement following the trial date set for City of London Police Officer Daniel Condon. https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2024/january/trial-date-set-for-city-of-london-police-officer/

The leader of Britain’s police chiefs’ organisation has become the most senior serving leader to say that policing is institutionally racist, as he called for a fundamental redesign of national policies and practices to eliminate discrimination. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/head-of-britain-s-police-chiefs-says-force-institutionally-racist/ar-AA1muxSY?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=WSEDSE&cvid=a0c20931de9d4acb97a0a06adee729ee&ei=8