UK Policing News

The ringleader of an organised crime group which supplied cocaine worth £21 million to dealers in London and Berkshire has been jailed for 20 years. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-venetic-drugs-supply-gang-leader-sentenced

A driver was caught with blocks of cocaine with a street value of £400,000 after his car broke down on the M56. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsliverpool/broken-down-bmw-on-m56-had-400k-of-cocaine-in-the-boot/ar-AAVVRga?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=34dadcb35a004de8aca6bdb45530f8b3

The Met has accepted 15 recommendations from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) following an investigation into the conduct of a team of officers at Charing Cross Police Station between 2016 and 2018. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-accepts-iopcs-recommendations-following-report-into-officers-at-charing-cross-445660

A former journalist and convicted sex offender who posed as a police officer on dating apps and lied to his family and friends has been jailed for 28 months. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10693969/Convicted-sex-offender-posed-police-officer-jailed-28-months.html

Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick will leave her post on 10 April, it has been confirmed. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/date-confirmed-for-when-met-police-commissioner-dame-cressida-dick-will-leave-her-post/ar-AAVMt07?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=d7f3b5a3a7554e10a5f641bc4ee23c1c

The Met Police has suggested giving officers warrant cards that women and girls can scan with a smartphone to confirm their identity. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684899/Met-Police-suggest-giving-officers-warrant-cards-women-girls-scan.html

A police constable who had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable rape victim and later used his influence to avert a police warrant at her home was today jailed for three years. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684769/Police-officer-48-formed-relationship-vulnerable-rape-victim-jailed-three-years.html

A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with sexually assaulting a colleague while on duty. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10683131/Metropolitan-Police-officer-charged-sexually-assaulting-colleague-duty.html

Link here Fine, but please please please do not call it ‘Police Wales’, sounds bloody awful! Call it something decent like the Welsh National Constabulary (WNC) or WNP. Then just one PCC, not four! It follows NI and Scotland.

Nearly two million anti-social behaviour reports have gone unattended by 34 police forces in England and Wales over the past three years, new figures show. The figures were released to the Liberal Democrats, who accused the government of being "soft on crime". They show that 55.2% of all anti-social behaviour incidents recorded between 2019 and 2021 were not responded to. The BBC has asked the Home Office to comment. Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the Conservative government had "let anti-social behaviour run rampant" after years of failing "to give police forces the officers or resources to tackle this scourge properly". Funding for police forc…

A man wearing army fatigues and a gas mask was shot by police yesterday following a tense stand-off. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10674329/Knifeman-gas-mask-camouflage-SHOT-police-Inverness.html

A policeman who illegally used the force's national computer to search details of women he was having affairs with was told by a judge today that he faces an immediate jail sentence when he appears before a High Court judge. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10668897/Disgraced-cop-faces-jail-using-force-computer-search-womens-details.html

Simon Cole, 55, (pictured) who retired from his job only last week has been found dead in his Kibworth Harcourt home this morning. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Police chief constables across the country have admitted that their forces have a toxic culture and problems with racism, homophobia and violence, the head of a watchdog has warned. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10666979/Police-chief-constables-KNOW-forces-toxic-culture.html

Essex Police has suspended two top officers over claims of sexual misconduct. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10666851/Essex-Police-suspends-two-senior-officers-sexual-misconduct.html