UK Policing News

A lorry driver has been jailed for smuggling more than £7m worth of cocaine hidden on a vehicle carrying a consignment of Kim Kardashian’s Skims underwear and clothing. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/7m-of-cocaine-found-in-lorry-carrying-kim-kardashian-underwear-clothing Good work by Border Force officers and NCA in stopping £7m worth of cocaine getting into the UK and given 13 years and six months in prison for smuggling drugs that wont get onto the streets.👏

A man who is suspected of facilitating the arrival of 19 illegal migrants into the UK has been arrested by the National Crime Agency. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/suspected-small-boat-facilitator-arrested-by-nca-officers Well done arresting the boat facilitator and hope the court will hand him a decent sentence.👏

An operation led by Northamptonshire Police’s Safer Roads Team and assisted by the National Police Air Service saw 140 e-scooters and e-bikes ridden by suspected criminals taken off the streets of Northampton. https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/news/news/2026/may/140-e-scooters-and-e-bikes-taken-off-northamptons-streets-by-police-officers/ Good crackdown by police in removing e-scooters and e-bikes that now has become a menace on our roads and pavements👍

Two men from Birmingham have been jailed for over 20 years after shots were fired through the window of a Willenhall home. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/may/two-men-jailed-for-over-20-years-following-willenhall-firearms-discharge/ Good work by WMP in bringing the two gunmen to justice and put them away for a very long time👏

A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply after officers attended a potential cuckooing report in Wythenshawe. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/may/man-arrested-and-6000-worth-of-class-a-and-b-drugs-seized-after-public-tip-off-in-wythenshawe/ Good work by officers in arresting the man cuckooing and seized quantity of Class A and B drugs which are believed to be worth in the region of £6,000. and remains in police custody for drug dealing.👏

A landlord who searched ‘how do police find out if you grow cannabis in your house’ has been sentenced, as Bedfordshire Police continue to crackdown on organised crime groups. https://www.beds.police.uk/news/bedfordshire/news/2026/may/police-crack-down-on-cannabis-network-operating-across-bedfordshire2/ Good crackdown by beds police in shutting down the cannabis farms and bringing him to justice for drug dealing.👏

A teaching assistant from Bury has been sentenced after pleading guilty to multiple sex offences against a vulnerable boy of primary-school age. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/may/teaching-assistant-jailed-for-over-four-years-for-child-sex-offences/ Good work by the Child Protection Investigation Unit (CPIU) with intense investigation after a member of the public reported seeing her out with a young boy and now behind bars.👍

A man has been jailed after being found to be concerned in the supply of cocaine. https://www.south-wales.police.uk/news/south-wales/news/2026/may/merthyr-man-jailed-for-dealing-crack-cocaine/ Good work by SWP in taking a drug dealer and drugs off the streets,👏

National Crime Agency arrests for offences linked to people smuggling have gone up by more than 55 per cent in a year, according to new figures. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/big-rise-in-arrests-as-nca-targets-people-smuggling-networks No matter how hard the NCA work to curd people smuggling👏 we get people still wanting to make money by bringing illegal migrants to our shores and hope they get more more arrests and jail the people doing it.👍

Criminals from two organised crime groups have been jailed over an elaborate plot to smuggle large amounts of cocaine through a UK airport, following a National Crime Agency investigation. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/drugs-traffickers-jailed-over-airport-conspiracies Great work by the NCA bringing down the drug dealers and bringing them to justice and stopped more drugs getting onto the streets.👏

Officers in Doncaster have arrested nine people and seized over a dozen suspected stolen vehicles as part of an operation targeting vehicle crime and associated anti-social behaviour in the city. https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/news/south-yorkshire/news/news/may-2026/Drugs-weapons-and-suspected-stolen-bikes-seized-in-vehicle-crime-crackdown-in-Doncaster/ Great clampdown by WYP on having arrested nine people and seized over a dozen suspected stolen vehicles as part of an operation targeting vehicle crime and associated anti-social behaviour in the city and more.👏

Two women and a man have been charged with a range of offences following a warrant conducted by our Serious Organised Crime Group on Wednesday 13 May 2026 on Carsdale Road in Wythenshawe. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/may/three-charged-following-warrant-in-wythenshawe-on-wednesday/ Good work by the Serious Organised Crime Group in arresting the drug dealers and in Possession of a firearm and ammunition now before the court. 👏

Two men who carried out a string of burglaries and thefts from shops, post offices and a garage across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex have been jailed. https://www.beds.police.uk/news/bedfordshire/news/2026/may/two-men-jailed-for-string-of-raids-on-post-offices-and-shops/ Good work by officers bringing the two to justice and now behind bars.👏

Ten members of an organised crime gang have been jailed following an investigation into the large-scale importation and supply of cannabis worth more than £19 million. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/may/organised-crime-gang-weeded-out-as-ten-jailed-for-a-combined-32-years/ Good work by GMP in bringing drug dealers to justice 👏 but again let down by the court with there soft sentences that are a joke for drug dealing😡 time courts start dishing out stronger sentences when it comes to dealing.👍

More than 170 wanted criminals have been arrested during a live facial recognition pilot in Croydon, which saw static cameras deployed for the first time. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-makes-one-arrest-every-35-minutes-during-live-facial-recognition-pilot-509256 Good crackdown by the MET with arrests with wanted people using live facial recognition and bringing them to justice,👏