UK Policing News

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/16/private-papers-show-extent-of-row-between-patel-and-police-leaders Home Office plans have been described as a power grab by chief constables and crime commissioners

Well worth a read about discussions at the Federation Conference. https://www.cheshirepolfed.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Cheshire-Police-Federation-Conference-Special-2022.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2pVSGY8DaLO6F9G0wCVPh-mgf2sldLsP5GnwRX5dJIy4O8ZcJq0Id8azo

A police force was accused of putting its woke agenda ahead of crime prevention yesterday after tweeting photos of a senior officer in a rainbow helmet. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10830903/Is-Britains-wokest-cop-Cambridge-superintendent-pictured-wearing-rainbow-helmet-patrol.html

https://news.met.police.uk/news/new-community-panels-begin-monitoring-the-mets-use-of-force-448070 Twelve panels comprised of local community members will review and feed back on police officers’ use of force in every London borough on a regular basis, starting this month.

https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2022-05-18/police-officer-tells-priti-patel-she-has-to-borrow-money-to-make-ends-meet A police officer has told the Home Secretary that she is only being paid "a couple of hundred pounds a month more than workers in McDonald's flipping burgers", as she struggles with the cost of living crisis.

Female police officers yesterday lifted the lid on the sexist abuse they endure from colleagues as a national conference was told misogyny was present in ‘every force’ in Britain. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10831317/Female-officers-report-misogyny-rife-UK-police-force.html

BATTERED police officers have demanded more respect - and better pay. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1611052/police-respect-pay-rise

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/16/spy-cops-police-chiefs-say-they-were-unaware-of-undercover-officers-sexual-relationships-with-women All of the senior police managers giving evidence to a public inquiry have maintained they did not know that the undercover officers they were supervising had formed sexual relationships with women during their covert deployments. I'm interested in how the issue of consent applies here. In the Assange case, the women apparently gave consent but with certain conditions. What happens if an activist does something similar here, for example saying they withdraw their consent if the other person is an undercover po…

A former Met Police Detective Constable crashed into two cars and a wall while driving at twice the legal drinking limit. Former DC Daniel Roberts was found guilty of drink driving and sentenced to a fine and driving disqualification for 18 months. He has also been dismissed from the force. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/met-police-detective-crashed-into-two-cars-while-driving-at-twice-the-legal-drinking-limit/ar-AAXknR5?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=cedf9f22c7ee4e4182a83139c7e1a1f1

This is the moment a drug dealer freed on licence was arrested within 10 minutes of the Standard joining Met officers on a violent crime blitz. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/metropolitan-police-violent-crime-taskforce-catch-drug-dealer-london-crime-b999948.html

Masked raiders took only four minutes to force their way into a Speyside distillery and make off with more than £100,000 worth of whisky. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/masked-gang-takes-just-four-minutes-to-steal-whisky-worth-more-than-100-000/ar-AAXknZV?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=766a1ab2e91c42d3835c50a393886aea

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/may/16/restrictions-on-police-stop-and-search-powers-permanently-lifted The government is lifting restrictions placed on police stop and search powers in areas where they anticipate violent crime, the home secretary has announced.

Police have seized around £100,000 worth of cannabis during a raid. Officers from the Bury South division of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) took to social media to share an image of a number of vacuum-packed bags of cannabis on a living room floor. According to GMP, the drugs were found at a home in Whitefield. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsmanchester/police-mock-criminals-after-stumbling-across-100-000-of-cannabis/ar-AAXgxXy?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4f1b3816e3744b3f8bad35bcab608a66

picture reportedly taken in the aftermath of a shooting Brixton Hill this week appears to show a hooded man running down a street in broad daylight carrying a shotgun. The photo is reported to have been taken just after the incident showing one of the suspected gunmen in the attack. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/brixton-shooting-man-holding-large-gun-pictured-running-down-street-in-broad-daylight/ar-AAXgIu7?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=732c4c93dbb94c898282f44e748ee87e

https://news.sky.com/story/young-black-people-carrying-weapons-to-defend-themselves-against-police-peer-claims-12611676 Young black people are carrying weapons to protect themselves against the police as they face "destructive and damaging" stop and searches, a peer has claimed. That comment caught my eye this morning, what do officers think about it? Hope the peer is talking nonsense, if not quite worrying and if people are going around with that mentality surely it's only a matter of time before tragedy strikes. If someone has been illegally searched then yes it's damaging in the sense that their civil liberties have been violated. But there's mechanisms …