UK Policing News

A man has been charged with being involved in a conspiracy to smuggle 17 men, women and children into the UK in the back of a van. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/romanian-national-charged-with-people-smuggling-offences-after-17-migrants-found-in-van

A police force has been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money by spending almost £50,000 on commemorative coins. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10047867/Police-force-accused-wasting-taxpayers-money-spending-48-000-Covid-themed-coins.html And they say police have no money for more officers.😠

A police force knocked down the door of a woman living alone in a dangerous neighbourhood and left it with only a weak board blocking the entrance, her partner has claimed. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-kick-down-woman-s-door-after-getting-the-wrong-flat/ar-AAOVp7i?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

Enviro-idiots blocked the M25 for the seventh time in a fortnight today as the injunction Priti Patel and Grant Shapps promised would stop the protests and put activists behind bars failed again in more humiliation for the Government and police. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10040357/Eco-mob-M25-AGAIN.html

PFOA article link Some interesting comments there. It looks higher to me than other surveys. It presumably just asked about pistols, not carbines etc. Usual slapping down type comments from MSPs, senior officers etc! "David Hamilton, chair of the Scottish Police Federation said the Norwegian model – where officers do not carry firearms but keep them routinely locked in their patrol cars in case they need them – “deserves to be considered”". Hm, don't think that is particularly useful, if you are under attack, often there is little warning in places like North America (where firearms are worn on person)> The only useful …

The disgraced head of Scotland Yard’s shambolic VIP sex abuse inquiry has been blocked from taking over Britain’s version of the FBI. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10025827/Steve-Rodhouse-headed-Met-Polices-shambolic-VIP-sex-abuse-inquiry-blocked-crime-job.html

National Crime Agency investigators have charged a van driver from Birmingham with attempting to import a huge haul of class A drugs, following a seizure at Dover. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/west-midlands-van-driver-charged-over-7-million-cocaine-and-heroin-haul-in-dover

This time they were removed in about 20/25 minutes. Note a member of the clergy!

A THUG who twice slashed a police officer with a knife has been jailed for 10 years. Richard Jefford, 39, was in a "drug-fuelled" rage when he attacked PC Steve Reid, 46, in the street. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1493895/man-attack-policeman-jailed-ten-years-nottingham-crown-court

A police operation targeting disruptive ‘car meets’ in south London has resulted in 21 vehicle seizures in just one evening https://news.met.police.uk/news/twenty-one-vehicles-seized-in-car-meet-operation-434121

Detectives are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of four children missing from their home in north London. https://news.met.police.uk/news/detectives-appeal-for-help-to-find-siblings-missing-from-north-london-434143

ONE MAN has been killed, and two others injured, in a series of north London shootings that are believed to be connected. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1494698/London-news-shooting-Wood-Green-Met-Police-latest-arrest-injured-emergency

Link to PFOA article

Two Surrey Police officers ignored call-outs to a burglary and a hospital to have sex in a squad car while on duty, a disciplinary panel has heard. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10008119/Two-married-police-officers-IGNORED-call-outs-assault-burglary-sex-squad-car.html good job they both resigned from the Surrey force as they are not fit to serve as police officers.😠