UK Policing News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67163 Assaults on officers are increasing, according to a policing union Do you think there's more people these days who no longer accept the legitimacy of the police? What I mean is you see a video of an officer being assaulted by someone they are arresting and a lot of the comments are about how the suspect was just defending himself against arrest, and that if the officer can use force on the suspect then he can use equal force back.

Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley has said that there is no place for “dishonest” police officers in the force after the stop and search of Bianca Williams and her partner. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mark-rowley-police-cannabis-bianca-williams-ricardo-dos-santos-clapham-officers-sacked-b1116645.html

A former children’s holiday camp manager who groomed more than 70 teenage boys online by pretending to be a 16-year-old girl has been jailed. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/youth-worker-posed-as-a-teenage-girl-to-abuse-boys-online

Four members of an organised crime group have been jailed after attempting to smuggle 139 kilos of cocaine into the UK hidden in a consignment of bananas. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/prison-for-drugs-gang-who-attempted-to-smuggle-cocaine-worth-11-million-in-bananas

In July 2021 Lancashire Police received information from the local community about criminal activity taking place at a property in Garbett Street, Accrington. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/lancashire-crime-five-members-of-an-ocg-including-one-from-blackpool-sentenced-for-running-a-cannabis-factory/ar-AA1jcqmX?ocid=msedgntp&pc=WSEDSE&cvid=643a129320794b5a972a0952eb5fd4e2&ei=25

Five members of a Rochdale grooming gang, who repeatedly attacked two young girls 'like pieces of meat' in lair dubbed 'The Butcher's flat' two decades ago, have been jailed for more than 70 years. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12696793/Rochdale-grooming-gang-attacked-young-girls-jailed.html

A misconduct panel cleared Julian Bennett of taking drugs before heading off to work at New Scotland Yard https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1830159/Senior-Metropolitan-Police-commander-sacked-after-refusing-drugs-test

Officers in King's Lynn made the youngster clean up mess in the town to right his wrong in an act of swift justice. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1830106/kings-lynn-police-punish-teenage-vandal Well done to the officers to make him clean up his mess.👍

A plane passenger from hell who shouted 'white children are easy to rape' has been jailed for 14 months after drunkenly hurling racist and misogynistic abuse towards women on two flights back to Britain. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12696759/Passenger-hell-yelled-white-children-easy-rape-white-men-jailed-hurling-drunken-abuse-white-women.html The judge should have given him a longer sentence and it shows what he thinks of people and biting a police officer.

Just Stop Oil activists brought London to a standstill yet again this morning with their second slow march this week in the capital – leading to 35 arrests. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12696839/just-stop-oil-London-standstill-slow-march.html

They are wanted for alleged crimes including rape, kidnap, and burglary https://www.mylondon.news/news/suspected-criminals-most-wanted-police-27984991

There were also two bodies found in the search for men who had gone missing https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/horrific-weekend-crime-london-sees-28005381

A murder probe has been launched after a 19-year-old woman from India who had recently arrived in the UK was stabbed to death in Croydon. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/croydon-stabbing-ash-tree-way-murder-arrest-b1116716.html

The leader of an organised kidnap gang that tortured victims with knives and boiling water to get them to hand over cash and jewellery has been caged for 25 years. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12680861/kidnap-gang-south-wales-cardiff-fortune-lawson-arnold-fumumeye.html