UK Policing News

Many Met Police officers have been forced to work every weekend for nine weeks straight since October 7, claims Sadiq Khan. He added that sickness rates are rising and the Met has cancelled nearly 4,000 rest days for every recent public order event, such as Just Stop Oil protests. https://www.mylondon.news/news/met-police-officers-forced-work-28256086

More than 100 officers have applied to join a single force in Australia amid warnings of a mass exodus from Police Scotland, the Mail can reveal. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12851991/Police-quit-Scotland-Australia.html so far received 750 applications, with five Scottish police officers having already started work.

Given pride of place in a police station, it is intended as a ‘wall of honour’. Yet a collection of portraits of former Chief Constables has been officially ‘cancelled’ by Police Scotland as an example of unacceptable ‘misogyny’. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12845439/Now-police-CANCEL-Chief-Constables.html

A former Met Police officer based in West London has been charged with six counts of rape against a teenage girl. Former PC Cliff Mitchell, 23, who was attached to the West Area Basic Command Unit, was charged on Wednesday, December 6 with three counts of rape of a girl aged under 13 and three counts of rape of a girl aged 13/14/15. https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/former-met-police-officer-charged-28257785

Police officers are investigating the purchase of a luxury Jaguar as part of their probe into the SNP's funding and finances, it has been claimed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12847831/So-SNP-fraud-cops-looking-purchase-95k-Jaguar.html

This is the horrifying moment a knifeman was confronted by brave have-a-go heroes before being arrested by police. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12847619/britain-knifeman-heroes-arrested-police-manchester.html Getting to be like LONDON. and well done the mops and the police in arresting the man.

Assistant Chief Constable Peter Lawson, 50, passed away at his home on Sunday https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12847811/Lancashire-Police-tribute-chief-search-Nicola-Bulley-death.html

A man responsible for stabbing two police officers has been jailed for life after being convicted of attempted murder as the result of a ‘meticulous’ Met police investigation. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-who-stabbed-two-police-officers-jailed-for-life-476616

Flying Squad detectives have charged three men after parcels were stolen from a delivery van in west London. https://news.met.police.uk/news/three-men-charged-with-robbery-after-flying-squad-crackdown-on-parcel-theft-476615

Metropolitan Police officers investigating a South Bank Street brawl find four off-duty colleagues 'were involved in the fight' - as they believe group of Romanian men hold key to what sparked it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12841297/met-police-officers-investigated-street-brawl.html

Six former Metropolitan Police officers have been sentenced for sending offensive and racist WhatsApp messages. https://news.met.police.uk/news/former-met-officers-sentenced-for-sending-offensive-whatsapp-messages-476538

A man from London manipulated and blackmailed dozens of young girls into sending indecent photos and videos of themselves by pretending to be a model agency scout. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/jail-for-man-who-posed-as-model-agency-scout-to-blackmail-girls-as-young-as-nine-into-sending-abuse-images

National Crime Agency investigators have launched an appeal to track down two men wanted as part of a class A drugs investigation. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/nca-appeals-for-whereabouts-of-men-wanted-in-420-kilo-heroin-importation

Potential police recruits withdrew their job applications after the force's chief constable said it was institutionally racist, a watchdog has disclosed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12835093/Police-Scotland-recruits-turn-backs-force-chief-constable-calls-institutionally-racist-watchdog-reveals.html

A Metropolitan Police officer who tried to delete her fiancé’s nephew from a list of suspects being targeted by a flagship unit has been issued with a written warning. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/metropolitan-police-detective-predatory-offender-unit-london-b1124662.html