UK Policing News

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 .

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