UK Policing News

13 detainees broke out of the immigration centre during a riot in Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1764608/Manhunt-immigration-centre-riot-13-missing-Bedfordshire

A British pilot and career criminal has been jailed alongside two other men in connection with a plot to fly four Albanian illegal immigrants into the UK. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/i-normally-get-arrested-for-drugs-pilot-joked-with-officers-after-arrest-over-botched-people-smuggling-attempt

Two crime bosses who conspired to buy and supply Class A drugs and guns on the encrypted communications platform EncroChat have been jailed. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-venetic-crime-bosses-jailed

A former PCSO has been jailed for six years after he pleaded guilty to 33 offences of making, taking or distributing indecent images of children. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12027355/Surrey-PCSO-guilty-taking-child-abuse-images-jailed-six-years.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/uk-emergency-services-take-diy-approach-amid-12-year-wait-for-comms-upgrade/ar-AA1atfox The UK's police, fire, and ambulance services are scrambling for solutions amid an uncertain wait for the Emergency Services Network (ESN) following Motorola's departure from a £400 million ($498 million) contract

The National Crime Agency has dismantled a network of criminal cash couriers that laundered more than £100m by smuggling it out of the UK to Dubai in the UAE. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/money-laundering-cash-couriers-smuggled-100-million-in-suitcases

A shamed female police officer lost her fight to clear her name after admitting having sex on duty with a male victim of sexual abuse. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12021551/Female-police-officer-loses-fight-clear-having-sex-duty-victim-abuse.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/65377091 The government has reached its target to recruit 20,000 more police officers in England and Wales Only 3,500 higher than it was in 2010 though. Still a net gain but the 20000 number is rather misleading in that context. Have forces lowered standards in order to reach their recruitment targets, and could that cause scandals or other problems as officers who really shouldn't be in the job go out on the streets? I also heard that resignations are quite high, as well as anyone who can retire doing so at the first opportunity, so what is the plan going forward?

A Devon and Cornwall police constable who featured on the Channel 4 show Call The Cops today appeared in court charged with child sex offences against a 15-year-old schoolgirl. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12020761/Devon-Cornwall-police-constable-charged-child-sex-offences-against-15-year-old-girl.html

A serial rapist who preyed on young women and under-age girls during a campaign of terror spanning almost a decade was jailed for almost 30 years after a judge branded him a danger to all females. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12020545/Serial-sex-attacker-tried-blackmail-woman-sex-wedding-night-jailed.html

A serving member of the armed forces has been charged by counter-terrorism police with offences under the Official Secrets Act. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/serving-armed-forces-member-charged-with-offences-under-official-secrets-act/ar-AA1aba2r?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=9c9768ba005e4690ff1af6e170b2d12c&ei=9

Police have shared a photo of the bizarre moment they pulled over a car to find £10,000 worth of Class A drugs - and a lamb in the backseat of the vehicle. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011023/Police-pull-car-tiny-lamb-seat-10-000-heroin-cocaine.html

Three people from Hampshire have been jailed over a year-long drug smuggling conspiracy which ended with a man being caught bringing cocaine into the UK from Peru. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/hampshire-trio-jailed-over-south-america-cocaine-smuggling-plot

An Indian man was arrested in London on suspicion of funding terrorism and faced extradition to the US, where he is wanted by authorities over fraud and money laundering offences. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/indian-man-arrested-in-london-faces-extradition-to-us-over-terrorism-charges/ar-AA1abe6B?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=9c9768ba005e4690ff1af6e170b2d12c&ei=59

A husband and wife team have vowed to put their collection of golliwog dolls back on display after they were seized by police in the latest salvo of a five-year battle with critics branding the soft toys a hate crime. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11956175/Essex-pub-landlords-vow-golliwogs-seized-police-display.html Why is this a job for the police to send 5 officers to take away dolls.? sounds a bit OTT to me.