UK Policing News

OFFICERS patrolling neighbourhood streets have been slashed by a third in England and Wales in just 10 years, official figures show. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1596221/patrolling-officers-England-Wales

A police officer had to have hospital treatment after a pick-up truck reversed ‘at speed’ into his patrol car in London. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/pick-up truck reverses at speed into police car after being asked to stop/ar-AAWlAD3?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=2776d11139094e06a41bf21dadf6f645

Four police officers were attacked - leaving some with broken bones - after they tried to help a man having a drug-induced mental health episode. Cops were 'head-butted, grabbed and bitten' during the attack in Solihull. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsbirmingham/four-police-officers-hurt-as-cops-head-butted-grabbed-and-bitten-in-chelmsley-wood/ar-AAWfoVd?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=362de0e87403456d916d30b85cbbd9f3

A Met Police officer who tried to pursue sexual relationships with two schoolgirls has been kicked out of the force. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10719467/Married-Met-officer-45-kicked-force-gross-misconduct.html

A serving Metropolitan Police officer packed two condoms, a bottle of lubricant and pills for erectile disfunction and Ferrero Rocher chocolates as a gift in his bag when he attempted to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex, a court heard today. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10711065/Met-Police-officer-packed-erectile-disfunction-pills-attempted-meet-girl-court-hears.html Good job he had been found out chatting in an online forum with an undercover police officer.👍

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61080386 A key intelligence database used by police to investigate extremists was "not fit for purpose" when introduced in 2014, a former counter-terrorism officer has told the BBC. Rather worrying that officers could apparently delete or modify data on the system without there being an audit trail.

An Irish organised crime group responsible for importing multi-tonne quantities of drugs and firearms around the world for more than 20 years has been hit with international financial sanctions – leaving their bank accounts frozen and funds inaccessible. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/kinahan-crime-group-hit-with-worldwide-financial-sanctions

An online forum that provided criminals with stolen personal data has been taken down in an international operation, which has also seen the NCA arrest a suspected site controller. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/hacking-forum-taken-offline-and-uk-suspect-arrested

https://news.sky.com/story/frontline-police-not-taught-what-evidence-they-can-get-from-tech-companies-training-documents-reveal-12587312 Training provided by the College of Policing uses incorrect terminology and is failing to teach frontline officers what information is available from messaging apps.

Three off-duty police officers have been slammed by a judge for riding their high-powered motorbikes at more than 100mph before two of them smashed into a car driven by an 80 year-old-man. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10708559/Judge-slams-three-duty-police-officers-riding-motorbikes-112mph-crashing.html

BTP imposter jailed (BTP website link)

POLICE have shut down an entire road in east London's Forest Gate district in response to an incident involving a man "suffering a mental health crisis". https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1593985/london-news-Forest-gate-incident-newham-metropolitan-police-surround-house-hostage-situati

A mother-of-two has described how she feared for her life when her family home was swarmed by armed police officers to take away her beloved Yorkshire terrier. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10702265/Police-send-NINE-officers-Taser-bettering-ram-seize-Bobby-Yorkshire-terrier.html seems a bit OTT to send that many officers just for a small dog.

Ministry of Defence police and navy contractors Babcock are investigating diesel theft from a naval dockyard. It follows a report in The Sun that £250,000 of fuel was stolen from Devonport dockyard in Plymouth. The stolen fuel was found in a tanker truck while assault ship HMS Bulwark was being refitted last September, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Shadow Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard, Labour MP for Sutton and Devonport, said it was "embarrassing". "The team in Babcock are investigating it," said an MoD spokesperson. "It was a theft …

This is the moment a cop was knocked off his motorbike by a banned driver as he patrolled a notorious estate in Bradford. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/shocking-police-bodycam-video-shows-officer-knocked-off-motorbike-as-thug-rams-him-with-car-on-bradford-estate/ar-AAVYcrH?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=692855bcdc654333b22acb7582f3f79e