UK Policing News

Police got drunk on a riot training course, threw petrol bombs at each other and started a blaze that needed 150 fire extinguishers to put out, it has been claimed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11765255/Five-police-officers-investigated-anti-riot-training-descended-chaos.html

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/devon-and-cornwall-police-controlroomlive-shares-every-call-live-for-12-hours/ar-AA17CeLg Cornwall and Devon's police force is 'going live' on Twitter to show in real time exactly how busy it is, day and night. Bit late posting as it finished this morning but nice idea for community engagement I think.

Two brothers who dressed up as old men using 'extremely life-like' latex face masks to rob a jewellers' shop have been jailed for a combined total of 31 years after police on a routine stop discovered their creepy masks. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11758175/Brothers-wore-elderly-balding-men-latex-face-masks-knifepoint-robbery-jailed.html

This shocking bodycam footage captures the moment a drug-dealer tries to evade arrest - by repeatedly punching a police officer and incapacitating him with a Pava spray. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11758181/Watch-moment-Peterborough-drug-dealer-punches-officer-uses-Pava-spray-against-him.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/chinese-cameras-leave-british-police-vulnerable-to-spying-says-watchdog My local force uses some Hikvision cams but not all forces do.

Shocking footage shows the moment a van rammed a police car during a high-speed chase on a motorway. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11750389/Watch-thugs-stolen-van-ram-police-car-barrier-70mph.html

Two drug dealers have been jailed after admitting their role in supplying class A drugs in Camden. https://news.met.police.uk/news/two-jailed-for-selling-drugs-in-camden-462026

The National Crime Agency and partners have renewed an appeal to help trace some of the United Kingdom’s Most Wanted fugitives. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/six-arrested-seven-to-go-nca-launches-renewed-appeal-to-trace-most-wanted-fugitives

An organised crime group who smuggled more than a dozen Middle Eastern migrants into the UK have been jailed. Seven members of the British-Palestinian network, two of whom were a mum and daughter, had illegally smuggled 14 people between December 2017 and December 2018, including people from Palestine, Kuwait and Syria. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/people-smuggling-gang-had-240-fake-id-cards-and-passports-to-traffick-14-migrants-into-uk/ar-AA17sOrC?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=aeeca2110b7b4bea9e6148400c86ec61

A group of men who committed a series of terrifying knifepoint robberies in South West London have been convicted. The group, including three teenagers, used a stolen BWV on false plates to carry out their crimes, in each case threatening the victims with a large knife or machete before stealing items including watches and bags. None of the property stolen has ever been recovered. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/london-crime-brazen-gang-of-thugs-rob-terrified-victims-at-knifepoint-on-busy-west-london-streets/ar-AA17rjRs?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=aeeca2110b7b4bea9e6148400c86ec61

London has seen three men dead and two seriously injured after a string of horrific stabbings and shootings https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/horrific-48-hours-violence-londons-26215698

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64622 There are some very serious questions of the Met’s leadership that need asking about this. I’m lost as to why IF the call came in, which the article suggests it did FOUR days prior to Sarah Everard’s kidnap, rape and murder, Couzens wasn’t only arrested on that day for exposure but also suspended? If demand really was that bad why did no one paid him a visit the day after? We all know exposure builds the confidence in offenders to commit more serious sexual offences. I would have expected my team and officers to be hunting a car that had just done such like a pack of wolves - and no this is not in hindsight - w…

The tourist was thankful to find none of their belongings had been taken after the fake police asked to check their things https://www.mylondon.news/lifestyle/london-underground-tourist-lucky-escape-26214405

Seven Russian cyber criminals who are linked to the group behind some of the most damaging ransomware attacks on the UK in recent years have been exposed and sanctioned by the UK and the US. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/ransomware-criminals-sanctioned-in-joint-uk-us-crackdown-on-international-cyber-crime

Organised crime boss Richard Wakeling was arrested in Thailand after being on the run for five years. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/most-wanted-fugitive-crime-boss-facing-11-years-in-jail-arrested-in-thailand You can run but in the end the police will find you and you can serve your time in jail.