UK Policing News

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

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