UK Policing News

A housekeeper is wanted by police after a suitcase containing jewellery worth £350,000 was stolen from a hotel in Knightsbridge. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/jewellery-stolen-hotel-housekeeper-knightsbridge-wanted-police-photo-b1121971.html

The annual Met Police Christmas Tree Appeal has launched for Christmas 2023 to ensure thousands of children in London - who may otherwise go without a gift - wake up to one on Christmas Day. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-police-annual-christmas-campaign-aims-to-bring-1000s-of-disadvantaged-children-a-gift-for-christmas-475662 hope people give a lot of gifts for the disadvantaged 👍children for Christmas

Police say they are 'very grateful' to an elderly man who put himself in between the fight https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/video-shows-met-police-officer-28130558 Good on the brave pensioner helping the officer.

His step-daughter forced him to admit to assaulting her as a child moments before 'painful' death https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/evil-couple-murdered-step-dad-28143286

An officer who assaulted a man in Lambeth has been dismissed from the Met. https://news.met.police.uk/news/officer-dismissed-after-assaulting-man-in-lambeth-475558

A man is in critical condition in a hospital in Rochdale, Manchester, after being hit by a police car during a chase. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1836761/rochdale-police-chase-car-hits-pedestrian-critical-condition

This is the moment an Albanian County Lines drugs gang who idolised Al Pacino’s Scarface is taken down in a series of coordinated raids across the capital. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12767435/Moment-Albanian-county-lines-dealer-poster-Scarface-wall-arrested-drugs-gang-pumped-1-1m-cocaine-small-towns-hiding-wraps-lottery-ticket-stubs-jailed.html Well done the PCSO who had spotted the driver of a vehicle acting suspiciously and reported it and lead to bringing down the drugs gang.👏

An Albanian woman has been jailed for seven and a half years after a National Crime Agency investigation found that she had acted as a fixer for people smugglers arranging small boat crossings from France to the UK https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/people-smuggling-fixer-jailed-for-brokering-dangerous-small-boat-channel-crossings

A serving officer has been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police for sexual activity with a child. https://news.met.police.uk/news/officer-dismissed-following-misconduct-hearing-475412

This is the shocking moment two rival gangs are caught on CCTV attacking each other with machetes and metal bars in the forecourt of a petrol station. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12756785/Shocking-moment-thug-attacks-rival-machete-pal-uses-car-battering-ram-brutal-gang-brawl-petrol-station.html

A Metropolitan Police special constable has been dismissed following his conviction for theft offences. https://news.met.police.uk/news/metropolitan-police-special-constable-dismissed-following-conviction-for-theft-offences-475417

A fast-time response by officers to reports of gunshots has led to a guilty plea at court. https://news.met.police.uk/news/fast-time-response-to-firearm-report-leads-to-guilty-plea-475479

A man has been found guilty of playing a leading role in a network smuggling Vietnamese nationals to the UK in the backs of lorries, following a National Crime Agency investigation. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/third-member-of-criminal-network-who-smuggled-vietnamese-migrants-into-the-uk-in-lorries-convicted

The final member of a global anabolic steroid manufacture and distribution network has today been ordered to hand over assets worth more than £9.8 million following a financial investigation by the National Crime Agency. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/member-of-steroid-smuggling-organised-crime-group-told-to-hand-over-9-8m-proceeds-of-crime

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/13/england-stop-and-search-does-not-cut-violence-thinktank A pilot scheme that allows police to stop and search people without having any grounds for suspicion does not work to reduce serious violence and disproportionately targets people of colour, a report has concluded I don't understand why stop and search needs to be such a complicated issue. Get rid of stuff like these orders and S60 and just make it that if there are grounds to search someone, then they can be searched and if there aren't grounds, they can't.