UK Policing News

Police could don jet suits to fly through the air and catch criminals in the years to come if new technology is considered. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9888491/Police-test-1-000-jet-suit-chase-suspect.html The way things are going soon police will be called Robo cops.🤣

This is the shocking moment a grandmother was punched to the ground by a police officer as they arrested her son for drunk and disorderly behaviour. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9877733/Shocking-moment-police-officer-PUNCHES-grandmother-50-face.html

A lorry driver from West Lothian has been handed a seven-and-a-half-year jail sentence following the seizure of cocaine worth almost £900,000 in Bathgate. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/cocaine-hidden-in-dog-food-leads-to-jail-for-west-lothian-man

A Glasgow man has been jailed for five years for smuggling a potentially deadly stun gun into the UK, following a National Crime Agency and Police Scotland investigation. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/glasgow-stun-gun-smuggler-jailed

The ruling to not sack the officer has been deemed "completely reckless". PC Tim Scott's suddenly stopped when driving and caused another car to crash into him in December 2017. PC Tim Scott, who is attached to the Met's specialist firearms unit, was found to have breached the standards of professional behaviour in the 2017 incident. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/reckless-met-police-officer-who-crashed-car-and-lied-to-insurance-company-keeps-job/ar-AAN3fv5?ocid=msedgntp 2017 to 2021 long time for this outcome.

This is the dramatic moment when the suspected ringleader of a county lines drugs gang was arrested during a dawn police raid. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9876171/Moment-suspected-ringleader-county-lines-drugs-gang-arrested.html

A targeted violence operation to intercept criminals bringing weapons and drugs onto London’s streets has concluded. Operation Pandilla aims to disrupt high harm offenders using the roads in and out of London by using Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology. ANPR is a camera that is linked to a computer. When a vehicle passes the camera it records an image which is automatically ‘read’ by the computer and the vehicle registration is recorded. https://news.met.police.uk/news/more-than-40-arrests-and-10-weapons-removed-in-summer-crackdown-on-violent-crime-431845

A man has been stabbed and a police officer slashed in north London. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/man-stabbed-and-police-officer-slashed-in-london/ar-AAN2qFx?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

Detectives have launched a murder investigation following the death of a man in Newham. https://news.met.police.uk/news/murder-investigation-launched-following-fatal-stabbing-in-newham-431833

A woman has been arrested in connection with the murder of Denardo Samuels-Brooks in Streatham. https://news.met.police.uk/news/arrest-made-in-connection-with-murder-in-streatham-431834

JUST 607 Criminal Behaviour Orders were slapped on convicted thugs and antisocial menaces last year - down a third in five years. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15783545/drop-in-controls-on-thugs/

A man has been charged with firearms offences after a loaded handgun and bullets were seized from the car he was travelling in yesterday [3 August] . https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/self-loading-pistol-and-ammunition-seized-on-motorway

A man has had his finger sliced off in a brutal machete attack in broad daylight in Salford. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9863751/Horror-High-Street-Moment-machete-thug-hacks-rivals-FINGER-savage-attack.html

Police anger over a pay freeze could see officers enforce a 'go-slow' on 999 calls or ditch their guns on VIP duty, their federation leaders have warned. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9822255/Police-anger-pay-freeze-officers-enforce-slow-999-calls.html

A hapless drug dealer who tried to flee a police chase in his car was caught after he managed to get his car wedged in a Morrisons car park. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9860221/Dealer-4-000-cocaine-heroin-smashes-Morrisons-trolley-bay-escaping-police.html