UK Policing News

The officer will appear in court next month charged with eight sexual offences. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1728036/dorset-police-officer-charged-with-rape-poole-magistrates-court

A man has been jailed for ten years for committing three robberies, two of them while he was armed. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-for-armed-robberies-in-south-london-461111

Every London borough will get a senior officer to lead local policing as part of the Met’s priority to have the strongest ever neighbourhood policing. https://news.met.police.uk/news/every-london-borough-to-get-a-senior-officer-to-lead-local-policing-461105

Dozens of officers from the Met Police are among almost 40 facing misconduct hearings over the next few months. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1728406/Met-Police-officers-fired-disciplinary-misconduct-hearing

A grieving family are demanding answers after a beloved grandfather died in a motorcycle crash with an asylum seeker who was working illegally as a DPD driver under a false name. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11689857/Asylum-seeker-working-illegally-DPD-driver-jailed-hitting-grandfather-Devon.html The sentence should have been a lot longer in my own opinion

A Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked after he pleaded guilty to the unlawful imprisonment of a woman and actual bodily harm. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/met-police-officer-sacked-after-he-unlawfully-imprisoned-woman-with-duct-tape/ar-AA16U66E?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=13b997e563da49a89f75347e3cb796f8 Update from the case on 2 December last year.

A drug dealer has been jailed after nine bags of cocaine were found stashed in a magnetic box fitted underneath his car. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/cocaine-dealer-rumbled-after-magnetic-box-discovered-beneath-his-car/ar-AA16Sg66?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=59b1dafaa73e498a9f1b0ebfecf60c45 Nice find by police another drug dealer off the streets.👍

A van driver has been heard on camera saying “I hope I killed someone”, after being arrested for causing the death of a teenager in a horror crash. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/van-driver-who-skipped-red-light-causing-deadly-crash-tells-police-i-hope-i-killed-someone/ar-AA16Q7LJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e7021db9b83340ce99227c3527d11778 He was jailed for 10 years should have got 20 years for murder .

A detective sergeant has been suspended after sending a sexual message to a woman and boasting about appearing on a TV show. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11685969/Police-officer-probed-sexual-message-woman-boasted-appearing-TV.html

A police inspector has appeared in court after being charged with sexually assaulting a woman. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11675853/Police-inspector-34-appears-court-charged-sexually-assaulting-woman.html

A man was kidnapped, brutally attacked and shot by a balaclava-clad gang who demanded a ransom from his relative who had scooped a £50,000 jackpot. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11683143/Liverpool-thugs-beat-shot-victim-gain-50-000-ransom-jailed-total-56-years.html nice sentence handed down by the judge to the scumbags👍

The number of BAME officers in the force is currently less than 17 percent, well below targets set several years ago. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1727045/metropolitan-police-diversity-targets-sir-mark-rowley-david-carrick 🙈

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/27/met-police-officer-sacked-for-requesting-photo-of-dead-man

A Croydon man has been sent to prison for his role in a twisted failed plot to execute a man on his doorstep 300 miles away. Colin Crawley, 45, is one of eight men convicted for their role in the conspiracy. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/london-crime-croydon-thug-part-of-evil-plan-to-travel-300-miles-to-north-east-and-execute-man-on-his-doorstep-in-broad-daylight/ar-AA16OTFM?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=24f9813bb8ab4729befc62f6a91c48cb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-64412127 The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is to reduce its number of staff by 6% in the coming months. By March there will be 309 fewer police officers and 115 fewer civilian staff.