UK Policing News

The incident took place in a posh part of London in front of the man's wife - the mother - and brother https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/mugger-baby-st-james-park-27740533

Sixty Met Police officers a month face being sacked for wrongdoing as bosses are trying to cull bad apples in the wake of scandals. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12533497/Sixty-Met-Police-officers-month-face-sack-wrongdoing-bosses-try-cull-bad-apples-wake-scandals.html

A serving officer is due to appear in court charged with sexual assault. https://news.met.police.uk/news/serving-officer-to-appear-in-court-charged-with-sexual-assault-472468

A man jailed for supplying false identity documents for illegal migrants has been hit with a confiscation order of over a quarter of a million pounds. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/mman-jailed-for-supplying-false-identity-documents-for-illegal-migrants

This is the horrifying moment a teenager pulled out a loaded gun in a crowded city centre as he threatened a man before being chased through a shopping arcade by armed police. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12529131/Moment-teenager-19-pulls-handgun-threatens-man-chased-shopping-arcade-armed-police.html

A member of an organised crime group has been jailed for his involvement in an attempt to import cocaine worth £9.2 million into the north east of England. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/man-jailed-over-north-east-port-cocaine-seizure Nice job done by the NCA blocking cocaine getting on to the UK streets.👍

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/12/anti-monarchy-protester-suing-met-chief-over-coronation-day-arrest The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, is being sued over the arrest of the chief executive of Britain’s leading republican movement on the day of the king’s coronation, in what is being viewed as a first test case of new protest laws. This is good news, the grounds for some of those arrests can only be described as very dodgy at best. Republic were not doing anything illegal, they had permission for the protest and it had been coordinated and agreed upon in advance with police. But Ro…

Martin Goodall dressed in dark combat trousers, a dark top and a police lanyard The former volunteer constable said he still had the power to act as a policeman https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12512915/Vigilante-motorist-fixed-blue-white-flashing-lights-van-pretended-police-officer-pull-speeding-drivers.html Good job done by the genuine off-duty special constable to ask to see his warrant card and finding out he is not a special constable .👍

Chilling CCTV shows a couple accused of going on a massive £13,000 spending spree using a bank card belonging to an elderly pensioner they allegedly murdered then left to rot in her home. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12517609/Chilling-CCTV-shows-pregnant-woman-boyfriend-strangled-pensioner-left-body-rot-home-going-massive-13-000-spending-spree-using-71-year-olds-bank-card-murder.html Hope this pair get a long life sentence .

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/17/met-police-mental-health-calls-nhs-mark-rowley The Metropolitan police has won its battle to stop attending most of the mental health calls it receives after a tense behind-the-scenes row with the health service, the Guardian has learned.

Sixteen people who were part of a West London-based organised crime group involved in international money laundering and people smuggling have been given jail sentences totalling more than 70 years. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/more-than-70-years-in-jail-for-money-laundering-and-people-smuggling-network-dismantled-by-the-nca

A Merseyside cop has been convicted of having sex on duty with vulnerable women, all victims of domestic abuse. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12524253/Merseyside-cop-convicted-having-sex-duty-vulnerable-women-victims-domestic-abuse.html

Rochdale's Complex Safeguarding Team gained entry to a property on Pershore Road in the town this morning, Wednesday 13 September 2023, to arrest the pair. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2023/september/an-early-morning-raid-results-in-a-large-haul-of-cash-drugs-and-weapons-in-middleton-and-sees-a-man-and-woman-arrested-on-drug-offences2/

Stephen Hardy committed a string of sex crimes against a girl while she was under 16. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1812932/stephen-hardy-police-rape-sentence

Greater Manchester PolicemanIMAGE SOURCE,PA MEDIA Image caption, One officer said there were concerns about the names of undercover officers being revealed Police officers' personal details have been hacked after a company was targeted in a cyber attack. The firm in Stockport, which makes ID cards, holds information on various UK organisations including some of the staff employed by Greater Manchester Police (GMP). The force confirmed it was aware of the ransomware attack. The hack means thousands of police officers' names are at risk of being placed in the public domain. One officer, speaking anonymously to the BBC, said while the names of many …