UK Policing News

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/08/suella-braverman-urges-police-to-crack-down-on-hamas-support-in-uk Suella Braverman expects the police to “use the full force of the law” against displays of support for Hamas after an escalation of attacks on Israel’s borders, she wrote on Sunday morning.

A man has been charged with terrorism and firearms offences, following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-charged-with-terrorism-and-firearms-offences-473577

Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command are appealing for anyone in the UK who has direct evidence related to the terrorist attacks in southern Israel to contact police. https://news.met.police.uk/news/counter-terrorism-policing-issues-appeal-for-information-following-attacks-in-israel-473575

A Polish lorry driver has been charged with people smuggling offences, as part of an investigation by the National Crime Agency into an organised crime group suspected of transporting migrants to the UK in HGVs and boats. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/driver-charged-over-alleged-cross-channel-people-smuggling

A former Ministry of Defence police officer has won a discriminations case after she was sacked for failing the bleep test exam. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12577261/Former-MoD-police-officer-WINS-discrimination-case-sacked-failing-bleep-test-exam-tribunal-rules-test-does-not-consider-innate-biological-differences.html

PC Mohammed Rahman 'set out looking for trouble' after sending vile messages to his wife https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/met-police-officer-wore-sinister-27873459

A serving officer is due to appear in court charged with sexual assault. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-officer-charged-with-sexual-assault-473442

Zyroam Allen, 18 (06.10.05) of Hackney, has been sentenced to 4 years imprisonment at Wood Green Crown Court on Thursday, 5 October for raping a woman, sexually assaulting seven women, and exposing himself to another. https://news.met.police.uk/news/victim-praises-police-investigation-after-sexual-offender-is-jailed-473504

Detectives are appealing for the public's help to locate a man who is wanted in connection with weapons offences. https://news.met.police.uk/news/appeal-to-trace-man-after-weapons-found-in-south-london-473470

A police officer who recorded himself having sex with a teenage girl on her mobile phone after grooming her online has been jailed for more than six years. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12603487/Police-officer-recorded-sexually-assaulting-girl-13-using-mobile-phone-duty-jailed-six-years.html

A PC has been dismissed from his force after lying about being sick so he could go on a ‘non-refundable’ Turkish holiday. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1820701/police-officer-dismissed-sick-holiday

More than 1,200 criminals have been jailed thanks to the infiltration of an encrypted messaging platform, police chiefs revealed yesterday. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12608815/Police-infiltration-WhatsApp-crooks-encrypted-messaging-app-sees-1-200-criminals-jailed-19-million-cash-seized.html

The National Crime Agency has begun an investigation following the recovery of a significant quantity of what is thought to be cocaine from the coast of Dorset and Hampshire. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/nca-investigation-launched-after-drugs-found-off-south-coast-of-england

A family crime gang who ran a drugs empire from a sleepy village terrorised neighbours who would wake up and find their car tyres mysteriously slashed if they dared to call police. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12609453/The-family-crime-gang-ran-drugs-empire.html