UK Policing News

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.

Officers from the National Crime Agency have carried out a series of raids across London as part of an investigation into an organised crime group suspected of using victims of modern slavery to operate cannabis farms. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/nca-targets-crime-group-suspected-of-operating-slave-labour-cannabis-farms

Metropolitan Police confirmed the officer was working in a school at the time of some of the offences. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1725873/met-police-officer-child-sex-attack-enfield-school-Hussain-Chehab Cant trust police in schools now days.

A policeman abandoned his duty to have sex in the back of his van with a member of the public in a supermarket car park. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/cop-had-sex-with-member-of-the-public-in-marked-van-in-supermarket-car-park-during-shift/ar-AA16sMdS?ocid=msedgdhp&cvid=c461a962bd70440985c3e8d63d76221b

Police made 179 arrests during a three-day crackdown targeting serious criminals and to help take drugs and weapons off the streets. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11668701/Police-arrest-179-people-three-day-crackdown-criminals.html

Anti-fraud police boasted of seizing a record £30million from scammer only to hand it back. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/anti-fraud-police-boasted-of-seizing-record-30m-from-scammer-but-told-to-hand-it-back/ar-AA16EDOp?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=637e0a18b5ee429b82456fe2f0c5eea2