UK Policing News

This is the outrageous moment a tearaway teen hijacked a police car and raced it at 113mph before smashing into another vehicle and crashing into a hedge. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12189085/Teenager-19-hijacks-police-car-drives-113mph-crashing-hedge.html

Hundreds of poorly paid police officers are poised to quit for a new life Down Under, the Daily Express can reveal today. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1689789/police-pay-recruitment-drive-western-australia-perth-Col-Blanch-uk-met-police-mark-rowley Wonder how many police officers will take on a new job and move down under? 🤔

Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested as part of the police investigation into the SNP's finances with the ex-first minister being held in custody as she is quizzed by detectives. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182995/Nicola-Sturgeon-arrested-police-probe-SNPs-finances.html

Police seized an untaxed £168,000 Lamborghini Huracan and revealed the driver asked to use their phone to tax his supercar in a bid to get his wheels back. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181511/Police-seize-untaxed-168k-Lamborghini-Huracan-reveal-driver-asked-use-phone-tax-car.html

This is the terrifying moment axe-wielding thieves plundered a busy high street jewellery store in front of shoppers. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12177721/Thugs-armed-axes-sledgehammers-plunder-high-street-jewellery-store.html

A former police officer has been jailed following his conviction for sexual assault. https://news.met.police.uk/news/former-police-officer-jailed-for-sexually-assaulting-colleague-468261

Police need to get back to catching criminals instead of worrying about 'causes' as public trust is 'hanging by a thread', the Chief Inspector of Constabulary said in a hard-hitting report. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12175783/Police-need-fighting-crime-instead-worrying-causes-warns-watchdog.html

Heartbreaking tributes have been paid to a 15-year-old boy who died after crashing an electric bike into a parked ambulance - having earlier been followed by police. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12175341/Boy-15-riding-electric-bike-dies-smashing-parked-ambulance.html

So, following the legal case against the Police Federation the rank and file have won and the judges comments were scathing! Nobody in the fed come out of it well and there will be serious fallout. Edit. Had put comments from the judge in but have since been told I can't as its legal privilege.

The unit was seen inside Portland Port, in Dorset, awaiting the arrival of The Bibby Stockholm Barge later today. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1778646/bibby-stockholm-barge-armed-police-migrant-boat WHY DO THEY NEED ARMED POLICE to see a boat come into Dorset, my own opinion that is a waste of money and why do they need so many officers?

The National Police Chiefs' Council has pledged to ensure that every home burglary in the UK will be attended by an officer in order to solve more crimes and put away more criminals. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1778546/Officers-attending-home-burglary-police-chiefs

Racism is endemic in society, affecting trade unions, political parties and the media, Scotland's police chief has said – days after branding his own force institutionally racist. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12158919/Chief-constable-says-racism-endemic-society.html

A forklift driver who used a 3D printer to manufacture assault rifles has been jailed for five years, in one of the first prosecutions of its kind in the UK. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12166833/Forklift-driver-lethal-assault-weapons-3D-printer-jailed-five-years.html Good job the Guns never got on the streets .

Constable Sam Steele has been Maryport's beat policeman since September and the positive impact he has had on the community is remarkable. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1777496/Maryport-crime-rate-curbed-lone-beat-bobby-Cumbria