UK Policing News

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 ,👍

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