UK Policing News

An Albanian drug dealer who used a north London flat to supply more than one million pounds worth of cocaine in just four months has been jailed for 11 years and three months. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/drug-dealer-jailed-pinner-london-rightmove-encrochat-b1110435.html

Police were called to Nunnery Lane, Bedfordshire, following reports that three teenagers had been stabbed at around 7pm https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/luton-stabbing-nunnery-lane-three-arrested-crime-police-bedfordshire-cambridgeshire-b1110532.html

Waheed Zaman, 43, and Aweis Bashir, 27, used EncroChat to arrange deals for a Czech manufactured Skorpion machine pistol and Class A drugs. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-venetic-machine-gun-conspirators-jailed

A powerlifting champion police sergeant has been dismissed from the force after shocking CCTV footage showed him using excessive force to detain a vulnerable woman who suffered PTSD from an abusive ex. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12575871/Hampshire-Police-sergeant-dismissed-excessive-force-powerlifter.html

Mark Slade, who was serving with West Mercia Police at the time of the assaults, will be sentenced at a later date . https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/west-mercia-police-kent-maidstone-kent-police-worcestershire-b1109349.html

A police sergeant who won a bravery award has been sacked for 'slapping a female colleague's bottom, making sex noises and squirting hand sanitiser at her'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12569717/police-sergeant-won-bravery-gong-sacked-sexual-harassment.html

Police officers in England and Wales are switching off their body-worn cameras and deleting and sharing footage on WhatsApp, a BBC investigation has found. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12569645/Police-officers-switching-body-worn-cameras-investigation-finds.html

A police marksman who shot dead a gangster who was part of a plot to break out of prison could be sacked despite being found to have killed him lawfully. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12568673/Met-Police-shot-dead-Jermaine-Baker-sacked.html IF he done his job lawfully so why now from December 2015.they now want to bring gross misconduct proceedings against him.

Shocking footage has revealed the moment armed cops swarmed a city centre - before police were then surrounded by a baying mob and attacked. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12565899/bradford-city-centre-mob-attack-police.html

A teenage boy stabbed a 15-year-old girl to death 'with a machete after an argument that began with him trying to give her flowers' on a bus to her £16,000-a-year private school in Croydon. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12565699/Police-rush-scene-incident-outside-busy-Croydon-shopping-centre.html

Met officers are working with partners to tackle modern slavery, particularly with Romanian communities, to increase awareness to identify the signs and work to gain the trust of potential victims who are exploited by traffickers. https://news.met.police.uk/news/officers-in-barnet-are-working-with-romanian-communities-to-tackle-modern-slavery-472818

A Lithuanian lorry driver has been charged after cocaine worth around £6.8 million was seized as part of an ongoing National Crime Agency investigation. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/lorry-driver-charged-after-136-kilos-of-cocaine-found-in-trailer-doors

The man has been rushed to hospital as police officers remain at the scene of the assault. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1816911/derby-asylum-centre-serious-assault-police-injuries

A 42-year-old Albanian man has appeared in court after being accused of running a £1.9 million cannabis factory above a Job Centre Plus building. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12558839/Albanian-man-42-appears-court-charged-1-9m-cannabis-farm-discovered-town-centre-Job-Centre-Plus-building.html

A police community support office (PCSO) and her husband have been jailed after they pretended their Range Rover had been stolen so they could claim on the insurance. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12558817/PCSO-husband-Range-Rover-stolen-insurance-police.html