UK Policing News

A Manchester man who used the encrypted phone network EncroChat to import cocaine worth £1.6m has today pleaded guilty. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-venetic-drug-smuggler-convicted-over-20-kilo-cocaine-seizure

A man from Lancashire has been jailed for more than six years for attempting to smuggle heroin worth almost £2 million into the UK in his campervan. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/lancashire-man-jailed-over-2m-camper-van-heroin-seizure

Fake flashing blue lights are being sold on Amazon for just £10 amid fears they are being used by criminals to impersonate police officers. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10178319/Fake-blue-lights-sold-Amazon-10-fears-used-impersonate-officers.html

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/06/weed-out-police-misogyny-and-racism-with-phone-checks-says-uk-watchdog Random phone searches for police officers should be carried out to check for inappropriate jokes and racist, sexist and homophobic slurs, the chief inspector of constabulary has said. “It seems to me that there is no strong case for saying there should not be random checks of their social media. If they put stuff up on Facebook, a public site, it’s public. WhatsApp communications are encrypted end to end, but they are still stored on the receiving device and indeed the sending device. So they can be interrogated.” With whats…

A police officer who shouted 'chill out or I'll choke you out' while arresting a suspect has been named ahead of a disciplinary hearing. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10182353/Police-officer-faces-misconduct-hearing-hes-filmed-shouting-chill-Ill-choke-out.html

Four gunmen have been jailed for more than 60 years in total after six gangsters shot down innocent bystanders outside a church in a gang war described as being 'like the Wild West'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9993925/Thugs-gunned-innocent-bystanders-outside-church-jailed-60-years.html

Five people have been charged as part of a major National Crime Agency investigation into a criminal enterprise that supplied fraudulent passports to some of the UK’s most notorious organised criminals. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/five-charged-as-part-of-major-investigation-into-the-supply-of-criminal-passports

A man has been jailed for a total of 22 years having been found guilty of multiple child sex offences. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-for-22-years-for-child-sex-offences-437151

Detectives investigating the murder of Mohammed Aqil Mahdi in Tower Hamlets have arrested two men. https://news.met.police.uk/news/two-arrests-in-tower-hamlets-murder-investigation-437213

Three men have been convicted for importing illegal firearms and ammunition into the UK in the post, before trying to sell them to organised criminals. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/midlands-trio-launched-mail-order-gun-service

Six PSNI vehicles were also damaged in disturbances on Friday night which involved young people on both sides of the community divide between the nationalist Springfield Road and loyalist Shankill Road, days after Loyalist protests related to the Northern Ireland Protocol. During the violence, missiles were thrown at officers and items were burned on the roads. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/brexit-tension-boils-over-as-police-officer-injured-in-night-of-violence/ar-AAQoGph?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

A fugitive wanted by the National Crime Agency for his involvement in the supply of class A drugs worth millions of pounds has been brought back to the UK to face justice. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/gary-vickery-drug-fugitive-extradited-back-to-the-uk-from-lanzarote

The Met is today coordinating a significant policing operation ahead of potential disorder during demonstrations throughout locations in central London. https://news.met.police.uk/news/message-ahead-of-planned-protest-and-potential-disorder-in-london-during-friday-5-november-437031

A COP paid £150,000 while saying he was too injured to work was caught out by an app that showed him taking 10,000 steps a day. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16638834/police-fraud-paid-150k/

A POLICE chief is being investigated after an allegation of sexual assault was reported to the independent watchdog. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1516316/cleveland-police-crime-commissioner-sexual-assault-scandal-watchdog