UK Policing News

Essex police said it is “working hard” to reduce disproportionate use of stop and search after an investigation found people from ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to be searched for weapons without suspicion https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/essex-police-working-hard-to-adapt-stop-and-search-as-investigation-finds-it-disproportionately-targets-ethnic-minorities/ar-AA1lClhh?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=WSEDSE&cvid=413e95f350814a9ea15f664ad4ea8f9a&ei=34

We welcome an update we have received from the Independent Office for Police Conduct that they have decided that armed officer PC Paul Fisher will face no further conduct or performance proceedings. https://news.met.police.uk/news/update-no-further-proceedings-against-armed-officer-476924

An officer who was convicted following an investigation by the Met's professional standards team has been dismissed. https://news.met.police.uk/news/officer-dismissed-after-misconduct-hearing-477052 The officer has been sacked after being found guilty of assaulting, controlling, and falsely imprisoning a woman known to him.

This is the shocking moment a police officer punches a medical worker in the head, minutes after he reported a crime. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12876931/Moment-police-officer-punches-medical-worker-head-tells-f-ing-floor-minutes-reported-crime-body-worn-footage-shown-court.html

A total of 657 arrests were made over the last five weeks as our officers worked to keep London moving in the face of JSO disruption. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-officers-make-record-number-of-arrests-to-keep-london-moving-476469

This is the terrifying moment a gang opened fire on children in a playground - hitting an eleven-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12865009/Terrifying-moment-gang-opens-fire-children-Three-men-guilty-attempted-murder-hitting-girl-11-boy-15-playground-shooting-rival-group.html

Dramatic video shows the moment around two dozen police officers swooped on a gang of cocaine smugglers who had been moving more than £1 million of the drug into the UK by coating it invisibly on broom handles. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12865853/Dramatic-moment-gang-smuggling-1million-cocaine-UK-coating-invisibly-broom-handles-bust-police-six-crooks-jailed-total-135-years.html Job well done by the met police and the NCA.👏

An officer who admitted drink driving whilst on duty has been dismissed without notice. https://news.met.police.uk/news/officer-dismissed-after-admitting-drink-driving-on-duty-476845

A man was pulled to the ground by two men and slashed in the face with a knife during an attempted robbery last week. The victim, aged in his 40s, was left badly injured after the incident on a towpath leading from Rotherhithe New Road to South Bermondsey Station in Southwark at around 5.10pm on Wednesday, December 6. https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/man-pulled-ground-slashed-face-28286823

A 'malingering' female police officer has been sacked after repeatedly reporting her former boyfriend for assaulting her - only for detectives to discover he did not exist. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12860155/Female-police-officer-ex-boyfriend-assaulted-sacked-detectives-realise-fictional.html

https://diginomica.com/live-facial-recognition-technology-necessary-and-proportionate-police-forces-defend-scanning South Wales Police and London’s Metropolitan Police Service argue that the safety benefits are outweighed by the privacy concerns. Despite what that summary suggests, SWP and the Met are actually arguing in favour of facial recognition. In order to be accurate I have copied that sentence exactly as it was written, but the wording is rather confusing. It threw me when I first saw it, as it seemed like quite a change in stance from the Met. Rowley is very keen on the technology and has plans on expanding it to be used retrospectively, reneging on pr…

Officers investigating a suspected police impersonation in Bournemouth are appealing to the public for information. https://news.dorset.police.uk/news-article/596e8c1e-9899-ee11-9d5e-6045bdd24049

Armed police have smashed a suspected drug ring involving soldiers from the elite SAS regiment, the Mail can reveal. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12852161/Armed-police-smash-suspected-drug-ring-involving-SAS-troops-two-servicemen-soldiers-wife-arrested-isolated-Herefordshire-farm.html

The biggest data breach in the history of UK policing, which saw the personal details of almost 10,000 Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers published online, was missed by six officials, a report has found. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/largest-police-data-breach-in-uk-history-went-unnoticed-by-officials/ar-AA1llbdO?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=WSEDSE&cvid=b25429c126374a41abafab50894dfce5&ei=28 Not good for the officers serving in northern Ireland.

The head of a police union is demanding action over the number of officers who have taken their own lives in recent years. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12846377/Police-union-boss-calls-forces-investigated-hundreds-officers-lives.html Sad when officers have to take there own lives doing the job of policing .