UK Policing News

Our Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime (MSOIC) team, also supported by the Criminal and Financial Investigation Department of Home Office immigration, executed a warrant in Bolton following an investigation into organised criminal networks across Greater Manchester. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/may/man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-organised-immigration-offences-in-bolton/ Good work by officers who have arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply false ID documents with improper intent and being concerned in the supply of cannabis and drugs seized by police👏

A man has been arrested after officers uncovered a cannabis grow at the former Barclays bank on Station Road. https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2026/may/clacton-cannabis-bank/ Good work by officers who arrested the man at scene after being found hiding in a loft and shut down the Cannabis farm👏

The City of London Police, working alongside the Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA), National Crime Agency (NCA), the banking sector and The National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC) of the Nigeria Police Force has led a major intelligence-led fraud operation. https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2026/may/city-of-london-police-disrupt-online-fraud-groups-as-part-of-international-crackdown-with-31-arrested/ Good clampdown by COLP with arrests of fraudsters that are ripping off people and disrupt criminals using online platforms👏

A lorry driver has been jailed for smuggling more than £7m worth of cocaine hidden on a vehicle carrying a consignment of Kim Kardashian’s Skims underwear and clothing. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/7m-of-cocaine-found-in-lorry-carrying-kim-kardashian-underwear-clothing Good work by Border Force officers and NCA in stopping £7m worth of cocaine getting into the UK and given 13 years and six months in prison for smuggling drugs that wont get onto the streets.👏

A man who is suspected of facilitating the arrival of 19 illegal migrants into the UK has been arrested by the National Crime Agency. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/suspected-small-boat-facilitator-arrested-by-nca-officers Well done arresting the boat facilitator and hope the court will hand him a decent sentence.👏

An operation led by Northamptonshire Police’s Safer Roads Team and assisted by the National Police Air Service saw 140 e-scooters and e-bikes ridden by suspected criminals taken off the streets of Northampton. https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/news/news/2026/may/140-e-scooters-and-e-bikes-taken-off-northamptons-streets-by-police-officers/ Good crackdown by police in removing e-scooters and e-bikes that now has become a menace on our roads and pavements👍

Two men from Birmingham have been jailed for over 20 years after shots were fired through the window of a Willenhall home. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/may/two-men-jailed-for-over-20-years-following-willenhall-firearms-discharge/ Good work by WMP in bringing the two gunmen to justice and put them away for a very long time👏

A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply after officers attended a potential cuckooing report in Wythenshawe. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/may/man-arrested-and-6000-worth-of-class-a-and-b-drugs-seized-after-public-tip-off-in-wythenshawe/ Good work by officers in arresting the man cuckooing and seized quantity of Class A and B drugs which are believed to be worth in the region of £6,000. and remains in police custody for drug dealing.👏

A landlord who searched ‘how do police find out if you grow cannabis in your house’ has been sentenced, as Bedfordshire Police continue to crackdown on organised crime groups. https://www.beds.police.uk/news/bedfordshire/news/2026/may/police-crack-down-on-cannabis-network-operating-across-bedfordshire2/ Good crackdown by beds police in shutting down the cannabis farms and bringing him to justice for drug dealing.👏

A teaching assistant from Bury has been sentenced after pleading guilty to multiple sex offences against a vulnerable boy of primary-school age. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/may/teaching-assistant-jailed-for-over-four-years-for-child-sex-offences/ Good work by the Child Protection Investigation Unit (CPIU) with intense investigation after a member of the public reported seeing her out with a young boy and now behind bars.👍

A man has been jailed after being found to be concerned in the supply of cocaine. https://www.south-wales.police.uk/news/south-wales/news/2026/may/merthyr-man-jailed-for-dealing-crack-cocaine/ Good work by SWP in taking a drug dealer and drugs off the streets,👏

National Crime Agency arrests for offences linked to people smuggling have gone up by more than 55 per cent in a year, according to new figures. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/big-rise-in-arrests-as-nca-targets-people-smuggling-networks No matter how hard the NCA work to curd people smuggling👏 we get people still wanting to make money by bringing illegal migrants to our shores and hope they get more more arrests and jail the people doing it.👍

Criminals from two organised crime groups have been jailed over an elaborate plot to smuggle large amounts of cocaine through a UK airport, following a National Crime Agency investigation. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/drugs-traffickers-jailed-over-airport-conspiracies Great work by the NCA bringing down the drug dealers and bringing them to justice and stopped more drugs getting onto the streets.👏

Officers in Doncaster have arrested nine people and seized over a dozen suspected stolen vehicles as part of an operation targeting vehicle crime and associated anti-social behaviour in the city. https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/news/south-yorkshire/news/news/may-2026/Drugs-weapons-and-suspected-stolen-bikes-seized-in-vehicle-crime-crackdown-in-Doncaster/ Great clampdown by WYP on having arrested nine people and seized over a dozen suspected stolen vehicles as part of an operation targeting vehicle crime and associated anti-social behaviour in the city and more.👏

Two women and a man have been charged with a range of offences following a warrant conducted by our Serious Organised Crime Group on Wednesday 13 May 2026 on Carsdale Road in Wythenshawe. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/may/three-charged-following-warrant-in-wythenshawe-on-wednesday/ Good work by the Serious Organised Crime Group in arresting the drug dealers and in Possession of a firearm and ammunition now before the court. 👏