UK Policing News

Dramatic footage shows the moment a quick-thinking police officer commandeered a cyclist's bike to chase down and arrest a suspected wife beater in a park. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9973175/Moment-cop-commandeers-cyclists-ride-chase-arrest-domestic-abuser.html What a smart officer for asking to use his bike to get a wanted man.👍

A “gentleman” police officer who was accused of clipping an abusive suspect around the ear has been cleared of assault. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-police-officer-ian-smellie-not-guilty-assault-london-b954432.html

THAMES VALLEY POLICE provoked a furious backlash from coppers, after appealing to graduates only to apply to its detective training programme. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1489092/thames-valley-police-detective-recruitment-campaign-graduates-crime-news-ont

A police officer has been accused of racism and could be sacked for making a joke about curry. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9976007/Police-officer-accused-racism-making-joke-eating-curry-faces-misconduct-hearing.html I myself think making a joke is not racist as there was no harm done syp bosses need to lighten a little and leave the officer to carry on or police officers making jokes between themselves as long it is not racist that's life.

A graphic designer has been jailed for more than five years for terrorising six women in an online abuse campaign. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/graduate-jailed-for-terrorising-six-women-in-online-abuse-campaign

DAME Cressida Dick is to be offered another two years as Commissioner of the Met Police, the Daily Express understands. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1488641/cressida-dick-commissioner-met-police

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Disturbing CCTV captures a police officer launch a brutal attack on a 10-year-old boy with severe autism. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1488634/police-brutality-attack-CCTV-Christopher-Cruise-Merseyside-Police-school when a police officer commit a crime doing things like this and is not to serve the public. 😠

A POLICE officer who assaulted a 15-year-old black boy and a black cyclist while on duty during the first Covid lockdown has been sacked. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1487817/police-news-crime-Declan-Jones-West-Midlands-racism-latest

TWO MEN were shot and injured in the Kirkdale district of Liverpool, during the early hours of Wednesday. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1487970/liverpool-shooting-kirkdale-stanley-road-two-injured-royal-liverpool-university-hospital

Police Scotland has pleaded guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh to failings which 'materially contributed' to the death of a young woman who was found conscious in her car three days after a serious crash. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9965179/Police-Scotland-plead-guilty-contributing-death-woman-days-car-crash.html

SCOTTISH police have tasered a man wielding a baseball bat after two officers were attacked in Paisley. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1487319/Scottish-police-latest-taser-video-baseball-bat-attack-Paisley-news-Scotland-crime-VN

A woman has detailed her experience after she put her trust into the hands of police after a sex attack, but was handed to predators who inflicted more abuse at the age of just 12. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9959579/Girl-12-went-police-report-sexual-assault-officers-sent-away-abusers.html

THE M62 motorway in east Yorkshire was closed for several hours after reports of a high-speed police chase which has resulted in one officer sustaining serious leg injuries, with three other men also hurt. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1486281/M62-traffic-latest-M62-closed-police-chase-officer-seriously-injured-Selby

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2021-08-30/warning-for-police-officer-who-threatened-to-make-something-up-to-arrest-man A police officer has escaped being sacked after threatening to “make something up” to justify arresting a man in Lancashire. What do people think, is a written warning the right outcome or is it not enough?