UK Policing News

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

A Ferrari worth over £260,000 was stolen from outside a property in Central London but the distinctive supercar wasn't missing for long. The Ferrari 812 was reported as missing from Westminster on the morning of Tuesday, September 19. https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/ferrari-worth-260k-stolen-outside-27772899 Job well done by the officers who arrested on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle.👍

The victim was saved by armed police who burst into the kidnappers' stronghold in Willesden https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/man-bundled-car-outside-london-27773744

Five police officers have been injured after a wild fight broke out in north Wales. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1815892/Wrexham-housing-estate-fight-police-injured-arrest

A police officer has tragically died in hospital after he was struck by a car on his walk into work. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/hero-police-officer-hit-and-killed-by-car-while-on-the-way-to-work/ar-AA1h8OwO Sad news with a great loss to his family and the police family.