UK Policing News

Boris Johnson will pledge to 'cut the heads off' county lines drugs gangs this week, as he launches a major crackdown on crime. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10273779/Police-millions-extra-funding-crack-county-lines-drug-gangs.html Lets wait and see if the police do get extra money.🙄

A policewoman has been sacked from the Metropolitan Police without notice for hiding cash she knew had been illegally obtained by her husband. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/policewoman-sacked-for-hiding-her-husband-s-stolen-cash-b969753.html

Young police recruits are quitting within weeks because they are put off by the violence and pressures of frontline duties - including working weekends and nights - a chief constable warned today. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-recruits-are-quitting-within-weeks-warns-chief-constable/ar-AARkPZ6?ocid=msedgntp

A 50-year-old South Yorkshire man arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into drug supply and money laundering has been jailed for two years and eight months. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/cocaine-and-cash-in-van-lands-barnsley-man-with-2-year-8-month-jail-sentence

AN URGENT manhunt has been launched after a police officer was sprayed with an unknown substance near Westminster in London. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1530106/parliament-police-officer-unknown-substance-metropolitan-ambulance-manhunt

A tearful police officer has told how he feared he would 'never see his two little girls ever again' after a drink-driver smashed into him and left him fighting for his life. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10264201/Hero-PC-tells-moment-struck-drunk-driver.html

A married police chief, 38, has been suspended from duty after an alleged improper relationship with a 21-year-old officer. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10197811/Married-police-chief-38-suspended-improper-relationship-claims-rookie-officer-21.html

Sussex Police have moved to gender-neutral warrant cards after the force's LGB network complained having male and female ones was outdated. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10252689/Sussex-Police-gender-neutral-warrant-cards.html

A man who orchestrated a meeting with a 12-year-old girl through online chatrooms only to find he had been set up has been sentenced after admitting child sexual offences. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-for-attempting-to-meet-fictitious-12-yr-old-girl-online-438245

Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been charged with 13 further criminal offences against three women including three counts of rape, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/david-carrick-charged-met-police-london-rape-14-offences-b968098.html

18 people arrested with suspected links to an organised crime group involved in the supply of boats which could each carry between 40 and 60 people from France to the UK. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/international-operation-sees-network-of-small-boat-people-smugglers-dismantled-in-france

The Metropolitan Police Service joined police forces across the country in Operation Sceptre, designed to ramp up activity to suppress knife crime and wider violence. https://news.met.police.uk/news/more-than-900-arrests-made-and-290-knives-seized-in-met-crackdown-on-knife-crime-438233

The manslaughter sentences of PC Andrew Harper's killers will not be increased after the Court of Appeal dismissed a challenge by the Attorney General. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/courts/pc-andrew-harper-s-killers-sentences-will-not-be-increased-as-appeal-dismissed/ar-BB1bYiOC?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds This is not justice for this officers wife and a big let down by the judge😠

Three men who plotted to use a removal firm as a front for their drug smuggling operation have been convicted following a National Crime Agency investigation. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/we-re-gonna-hit-the-jackpot-trio-used-removal-firm-as-cover-for-lockdown-drug-smuggling-enterprise We’re gonna hit the jackpot yes a nice trip to jail 👍 as well.