UK Policing News

It's always a nerve-racking time waiting to hear how you did at an interview. But one would-be policeman destroyed his chances of a job… after ringing 999 to find out how his application was getting along. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9931333/Would-policeman-dials-999-job-application-going.html lesson if you want to join the police dont ring 999.

Detectives have issued an appeal and images to identify the men after a man was seriously assaulted in Hackney. https://news.met.police.uk/news/appeal-for-information-following-assault-in-hackney-432658

Activity by Extinction Rebellion is expected to take place between Sunday, 22 August and Saturday 4, September. The group has indicated that it will focus on the City of London. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-sets-out-policing-plan-ahead-of-extinction-rebellion-protests-432384

A busker was left covered in blood as he is held to the ground by five police officers following an apparent row over illegally performing in public. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9922051/Moment-busker-held-ground-FIVE-police-officers.html

Detectives have issued an image and are appealing for the public's help to identify a man following a robbery in Ladbroke Grove. https://news.met.police.uk/news/image-released-of-man-sought-following-robbery-on-bus-in-ladbroke-grove-432531

A loaded firearm was recovered in south London after officers on patrol stopped a teenager. Officers from the Met’s Violent Crime Task Force were on patrol in Coldharbour Lane, SW9, at about 18:20hrs on Wednesday, 25 August when they attempted to stop a teenager cycling towards them. https://news.met.police.uk/news/teenager-arrested-after-loaded-firearm-recovered-in-south-london-432628 Good job they got this gun off the streets before any harm was done.👍

A man has been arrested on suspicion of contaminating food with a syringe at three supermarkets in West London, a council has said. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9927687/Man-arrested-substance-injected-food-three-West-London-supermarkets.html

A driver avoided jail after leading police on a pointless high-speed chase with a young child in the car, forgetting he passed his driving test and was legal to drive. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9925157/Driver-leads-police-pointless-high-speed-chase-forgetting-passed-driving-test.html

Police are painting rainbows on the side of their squad cars in a bid to beat online hate crimes and 'give confidence' to the LGBT+ community. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9916947/Police-paint-Pride-rainbows-squad-cars-bid-beat-online-hate-crimes.html What a waste of money better to spend it on crime and not police cars.👎

A Cambridge academic who fraudulently claimed almost £2.8 million in government grants has been ordered to pay £1.3 million back from his crimes or face another eight-and-a-half years in prison. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/cambridge-academic-ordered-to-pay-1-3-million-or-face-another-8-5-years-in-prison

Frontline police are treated like Britain's "punch bag" whilst preserving law and order, says a deeply concerned Chief Constable. John Robins said officers "are punched, kicked, pushed and spat at every day". https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1468027/Police-officers-attacked-violence-investigation

A police officer who groomed two vulnerable single mothers and had sex with one when he was on duty has avoided jail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9912915/Police-officer-56-groomed-two-vulnerable-single-mothers-sex-one-avoids-jail.html

A police worker has been spared jail after he was caught filming his colleagues urinating in the gents toilets. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9913237/Police-worker-spared-jail-secretly-filming-colleagues-gents-toilets.html

Cressida Dick is facing a potential misconduct probe over her open support of one of her most controversial senior officers who could stand trial over alleged data breaches. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9913323/Met-chief-Cressida-Dick-faces-inquiry-referred-police-watchdog.html Again met police boss in the news.

A police force was today scrambling to track down a convicted thief after he was accidentally released from prison. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-appeal-to-find-convicted-thief-released-from-prison-by-mistake/ar-AANxN0j?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531