UK Policing News

A police officer has been given a final warning after he used racist language and flashed his warrant card to get into a nightclub in Cambridge. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12598313/Detective-given-final-written-warning-booze-filled-night-flashed-warrant-card-nightclub.html

This is the moment a furious homeowner confronts a police officer for 'littering' after he was caught on camera throwing his sandwich crusts out of a patrol car. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12596379/Bread-rights-Moment-police-officer-forced-embarrassing-climbdown-denying-throwing-sandwich-crusts-outside-home-angry-resident-CCTV-catches-act.html Why lie all he had to say was sorry.

Shocking photographs have emerged of a white van man watching a TV show while driving along a major motorway. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12601781/Moment-white-van-man-caught-undercover-police-catching-favourite-TV-driving-M1.html When will drivers ever learn do not use your phone when driving .

Two men will appear in court charged with offences linked to two firearms discharges in Hackney earlier this year. https://news.met.police.uk/news/two-charged-following-hackney-shootings-473289

A former Dorset Police officer has been sentenced to 16 and half years in prison after being convicted of eight sexual offences, including two counts of rape. https://news.dorset.police.uk/news-article/25f4d377-8e63-ee11-9d5b-6045bdd24049

An inquest jury has found the suicide of a young man in HMP Wormwood Scrubs was a result of multiple failures by police, prison and prison healthcare staff. Jack Zarrop, 23, died on March 20 2021 after hanging himself in his cell at the notorious West London prison where he had been for less than 48 hours on remand. https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/man-23-died-suicide-48-27836931 .

A man has been charged with people smuggling offences as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the cross-Channel transport of migrants using a pleasure boat. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/man-charged-in-pleasure-boat-people-smuggling-investigation

A police officer who sent sexualised texts to a vulnerable woman who he met while on duty has been jailed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12596309/Police-officer-sexualised-texts-vulnerable-woman-jailed.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/02/uk-passport-images-database-could-be-used-to-catch-shoplifters Britain’s passport database could be used to catch shoplifters, burglars and other criminals under urgent plans to curb crime, the policing minister has said. I don't remember being informed or asked for permission to use my photo for this purpose when I got my passport.

A serving Metropolitan Police officer raped two women in 11 days after meeting them in bars while off duty, a court has heard. PC Rupert Edwards, 30, of Ashtead, Surrey, is alleged to have raped one woman in Epsom, Surrey, on August 26 2022 and the other in Lambeth, South London, on September 5 2022, Inner London Crown Court heard on Tuesday (October 3). https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/metropolitan-police-officer-woke-up-27836465

A 22-year-old man has been stabbed to death in South London in broad daylight. https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/live-brixton-updates-major-road-27835739

Dramatic footage has emerged showing the moment police used a stinger before ramming a car to take out a dangerous driver during a high-speed chase. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12587863/Braking-bad-Moment-police-use-stinger-halt-speeding-Jaguar-X-Type-driver-hurtling-country-lanes.html

This is the moment a man smashes a cricket bat into the side of a van in an apparent act of road rage. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12587403/Road-rage-driver-smashes-van-cricket-bat.html

Police investigating a series of arson and criminal damage incidents have released an image of a man they want to identify and speak with. https://news.met.police.uk/news/image-issued-of-man-sought-following-arson-and-criminal-damage-in-shepherds-bush-473058

A crop of nearly 1,000 cannabis plants have been discovered by police in a former Marks and Spencer outlet. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12574909/Police-raid-Marks-Spencer-high-street-store-crop-1-000-cannabis-plants.html nice find by police ,👍