UK Policing News

A 'disturbance' involving around 100 people armed with knives and various other weapons has been reported at a migrant detention centre near Heathrow Airport after a power outage left the site with no electricity or water. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11393125/Riot-police-called-immigration-centre-amid-disturbance-power-cut-sparked-chaos.html

The Met Police was blasted today for its 'fundamentally flawed' approach to tackling corruption, with a damning watchdog report finding it had hired 100 officers with convictions and lost an astonishing 2,000 warrant cards. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10639517/Met-Police-fundamentally-flawed-tackling-corruption-ranks.html

Hundreds of stolen designer shoes and household goods have been uncovered by police after they were exchanged for drugs in a so-called 'shoplifters' swap shop'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11385639/Police-uncover-shoplifters-swap-shop-packed-designer-shoes-thieves-exchanged-drugs.html nice find by police👍

Former officer Clare Ogden said she cannot put into words how sorry she felt while giving evidence at a misconduct hearing. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1691350/police-officer-made-sex-video-on-duty

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/02/police-killing-of-yassar-yaqub-on-m62-was-lawful-inquest-finds A Huddersfield man who was shot dead by police on the M62 in West Yorkshire nearly six years ago was lawfully killed, an inquest has found

Young men who posed "little to no threat" have been removed from a controversial gang matrix. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1690177/gang-matrix-london-met-police-watch-list

This is the shocking moment a bare-chested thug was caught on police bodycam footage going berserk and attacking five officers. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11378769/Moment-bare-chested-thugs-goes-berserk-attacks-five-police-officers-rampage-hotel.html

A shocking video shows a mother pushing a pram being hit by a firework at close range, as suspected gangs caused mayhem last night in London Stratford. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11376369/Firework-thug-blasts-mother-BABY-pram-ROCKET-outside-Westfield-Shopping-Centre.html

A police officer accused of assaulting a vulnerable teenage boy who was filming outside a police station has said he 'stands by his actions'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11280245/Merthyr-Tydfil-Inspector-Dean-Gittoes-tells-investigators-stands-actions-court-hears.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-63428147 England's second largest police force has been taken out of special measures two years after a damning inspection. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has shown "clear, demonstrable progress", His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) said.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/27/live-facial-recognition-police-study-uk Police should be banned from using live facial recognition technology in all public spaces because they are breaking ethical standards and human rights laws, a study has concluded. Partly agree with what the South Wales assistant chief constable is saying. There is a balance between the benefits facial recognition gives the police and the privacy rights of the population, and it isn't fair to expect officers to figure out themselves where that is. He says they're having to "work it out as they go along". Different officers are probably going to have different views …

A Merseyside Police officer who quit in disgrace after recording himself hurling 'appalling' racist abuse at his TV screen and sending it to a colleague has been found guilty of misconduct. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11360043/Constable-sent-audio-hurling-racist-abuse-TV-guilty-gross-misconduct.html

New shocking figures on Met Police Officers with convictions. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1686477/met-police-officers-convictions-crimes-news-uk no wonder people just can't have faith in the police when police commit crimes themselves.

An 'arrogant and selfish' van driver was found guilty of killing an off-duty police officer on her bicycle while using Facebook on his mobile phone. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11341423/Selfish-van-driver-guilty-killing-duty-police-officer-bicycle-phone.html

This is the moment a heroic security guard rescued a teenager from machete-wielding thugs who targeted him in a brazen daylight attack outside a school. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11338091/Hero-security-guard-protects-teenager-set-machete-wielding-thugs-outside-school.html . knife crime getting worse as London with teenagers,