UK Policing News

A man has been jailed for firearms offences after officers chased him down when they spotted a suspicious car in Kensington. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-after-vigilant-officers-recover-firearm-in-kensington-469475

This is the terrifying moment a Mercedes smashed into a group of thugs attacking a man on the ground opposite the MI6 headquarters - before the victim leapt into the car as it sped away. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12265831/Terrifying-moment-car-slams-crowd-people-outside-MI6-building.html

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23626548.police-scotland-whistleblower-says-staff-breaking-point/ The public "isn't getting the service they deserve" from the police in Scotland, according to a whistleblower who says staffing cuts have left officers at breaking point and quitting the force.

Police have swooped a massive horde of counterfeit goods worth an estimated £870million, making it the biggest single UK seizure in history - as well as the largest in Europe in nearly 20 years. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/counterfeit-goods-seized-by-police-in-record-uk-haul-worth-eye-watering-870m/ar-AA1doG23?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=aa467ddf1fc3434a856b17a08ac6cfca&ei=10

Police have revealed the moment they uncovered a criminal gang's supercar 'chop shop' — where stolen cars are stripped of their parts. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-12241909/Inside-supercar-chop-shop-Watch-cops-discover-1M-stolen-motors-gangs-secert-garage.html?ico=mol_desktop_home Great job by only 3 officers shutting car gangs down. 👍

An 'exceptionally' dangerous driver has been jailed after ramming a police car and leading officers on a high-speed chase through residential areas before crashing into a field. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12255825/Dangerous-driver-rams-police-car-leads-cops-high-speed-chase-York-villages.html

Detective Sergeant Dave Speight spent three decades hunting down and locking up some of Britain's most violent criminals. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12237683/I-locked-Britains-dangerous-crooks-heres-gangs-taking-over.html I bet a lot of police officers will agree with him on what he is saying.

Detectives are renewing appeals for information and witnesses following the fatal stabbing of a teenager by the Grand Union towpath under Scrubs Lane. https://news.met.police.uk/news/victim-named-and-arrests-made-in-hammersmith-and-fulham-murder-469336

The crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers received an anonymous tip-off in January 2016. A detective in one of Scotland Yard's elite 'Sapphire' units, which investigates rapes and serious sexual offences, had had 'inappropriate' relationships with sex victims. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12252171/Why-did-seven-years-sack-drug-taking-orgy-loving-Met-detective-elite-rape-squad.html

Police should be out on the beat catching criminals 'not writing essays', a chief constable said yesterday after scrapping a rule that officers need a degree. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12196059/Cop-ditched-degree-requirement-wants-officers-catching-criminals-not-writing-essays.html

Police officers Steven Walters and Anthony Ritchie are accused of having initiated sexual contact with women who were the victims of crimes while attending their homes. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1786175/Predatory-police-officers-accused-sex-vulnerable-women

A man has been jailed for raping a child over a period of time between 2006 and 2008. https://news.met.police.uk/news/determined-detectives-solve-non-recent-rape-case-involving-a-child-469318

A family of 'cold and calculating' rogue traders, who held pensioners 'ransom', have been jailed after scamming their victims out of almost £400,000. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12248513/Cold-family-rogue-traders-held-pensioners-ransom-398-000-scam-jailed.html Nice to see police have arrested and jailed scum traders who rip people off.👍

A Met Police sergeant who sexually assaulted a stranger in the sea in Brighton while on his stag-do is facing jail and the end of his career. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12247273/Oxford-educated-Met-Police-sergeant-34-guilty-sexually-assaulting-woman.html

A Met investigation into a drugs line from London to Dundee has resulted in a gang of four men being jailed for more than 14 years and a missing child safeguarded. https://news.met.police.uk/news/four-jailed-and-a-missing-child-safeguarded-after-joint-met-and-police-scotland-county-lines-operation-469196