UK Policing News

The Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) Tranche 1 Interim Report, published today (Thursday, 29 June), details the Inquiry’s investigation into undercover policing operations conducted by the Met’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) between 1968 and 1982. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-police-response-to-the-undercover-policing-inquiry-tranche-1-interim-report-469230

A 33-year-old man who has been charged with raping a woman in a Skegness park late at night was staying at an £80-a-night seafront hotel believed to be housing migrants. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12241931/Asylum-seeker-33-charged-raping-woman-Skegness-staying-hotel-used-house-migrants.html

An officer has pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm following an on duty incident last summer. https://news.met.police.uk/news/officer-pleads-guilty-to-causing-actual-bodily-harm-469120

Homicide detectives uncovered how the killer of 18-year-old Ghulam Sadiq used false ID to buy the fatal weapon online. https://news.met.police.uk/news/teen-jailed-for-murder-after-homicide-detectives-uncovered-how-he-had-used-false-id-to-buy-the-fatal-weapon-469058

A shocking video shows the moment a man suspected of possessing a gun tried to suffocate a police officer whilst asking him if he 'wants to die'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12234919/Terrifying-moment-gun-suspect-58-tries-choke-police-officer-asks-want-die.html

Two police officers could face manslaughter charges over the death of a 93-year-old one-legged dementia sufferer who was tasered in his wheelchair. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12237821/Police-officers-tasered-dementia-hit-care-home-resident-93-face-manslaughter-charges.html

This is the shocking moment a yob brutally beat up a police officer during an arrest while a jeering gang watched on - as a 16-year-old boy is charged over the attack. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12236101/Shocking-moment-yob-brutally-beats-police-officer-arrest.html

James Boyle, of Sunbury Place, Edinburgh, was working as a criminal defence barrister at the time of his arrest. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/edinburgh-cambridgeshire-police-b1090212.html

The head of an organised crime group that smuggled hundreds of people both into and out of the UK has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/head-of-london-based-people-smuggling-network-jailed-after-covert-nca-investigation

Addressing colleagues as "bruv", "geezer" and "mate" has now been banned https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1784184/police-recruits-ban-new-memo

National Crime Agency officers have charged a man with people smuggling offences as part of an international investigation into an organised crime network moving migrants across the Mediterranean from North Africa into Europe. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/nca-arrests-alleged-organiser-of-mediterranean-migrant-crossings-on-death-trap-boats

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/19/suella-braverman-tells-police-to-ramp-up-use-of-stop-and-search Suella Braverman has called on police to increase the use of stop and search powers “to prevent violence and save more lives”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/22/met-officer-convicted-for-pepper-spraying-man-as-he-climbed-down-high-rise-building A Metropolitan police officer who used pepper spray on a man as he climbed down a drainpipe attached to a high-rise apartment block has been convicted of assault, the force said While bearing in mind the usual caveat about not knowing first hand what happened, I struggle to see how this use of force can be justified

On Monday, June 12, investigators from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) served gross misconduct notices on two South Wales Police officers as part of its investigation following the deaths of Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans in Ely on May 22. https://www.south-wales.police.uk/news/south-wales/news/2023/meh-jun/summary-of-a-statement-issued-by-iopc-on-june-13/

Three people are dead and three injured in Nottingham after a van rampage, with police arresting a 31-year-old man for murder. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12188861/Police-close-multiple-roads-Nottingham-deal-major-incident.html