UK Policing News

The last man arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the alleged importation of cocaine and heroin has been extradited from the Netherlands to face the UK courts. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/alleged-member-of-chicken-run-drug-gang-extradited-to-uk-to-face-justice

A man has been jailed as a result of a proactive vehicle stop in Brent which led officers to a Skorpion sub-machine gun, more than £200,000 cash, as well as class A and B drugs. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-for-eight-years-for-firearms-and-drugs-offences-429308

Two men and two teenagers have been jailed for killing a father-of-two by kicking him to death for his £13,000 gold Rolex watch. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/boy-14-among-four-jailed-for-kicking-father-of-two-to-death-for-his-gold-rolex/ar-AAKWS0Z?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

A teenager who was filmed kicking a helpless pensioner into a freezing river has today been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9673489/Benjamin-Bridgeman-jailed-kicking-pensioner-River-Mersey-running-away-laughing.html About time and hope it will show you wont just get a slap on the wrist.👍

A thug has been jailed for six years and five months for dragging a mum from her car and driving away with her three screaming kids still on the back seat. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9676057/Moment-cocaine-addict-drags-mother-car-driving-away-children-back.html

POLICE officers were "betrayed" after being promised Covid jab priority and then abandoned, a senior force leader has claimed. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1447364/police-fury-officers-abandoned-promised-vaccine

TWO teenagers have been arrested in connection with the death of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed in Luton on Tuesday afternoon. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1447308/luton-stabbing-news-two-teenagers-arrested-16-year-old-dead-hospital-crime-police-ont

A Metropolitan Police officer tried to secretly record a woman while she was having a shower for his own sexual gratification, a court has heard. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-police-officer-accused-secretly-record-woman-shower-b939264.html

Police have broken up an illegal rave in a field attended by around 200 people. Essex Police said officers were called to Theydon Bois at around 11pm on Saturday after reports of the music event. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/objects-thrown-at-police-as-officers-break-up-illegal-rave-in-essex/ar-AAKKMwm?ocid=msedgntp

A double child killer who was the first murderer to be convicted using DNA evidence can be released, the Parole Board has confirmed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-57384393 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Pitchfork A notable case from the dim and distant past; the first use of DNA by the criminal justice system (anywhere in the world) was to prove a suspect's innocence closely followed by proving another's guilt.

HUNDREDS of police officers have been disciplined or are being investigated for flouting Covid rules, a Sun on Sunday probe has discovered. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15177537/hundred-of-cops-flouting-covid-rules/ officers should be setting a example not braking the lockdown rules🙈

Shocking bodycam footage has captured the moment a glass bottle flew through the air before striking and hitting a policewoman in the face and knocking her out. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9657499/Policewomans-bodycam-captures-glass-bottle-flying-air.html

POLICE busted an illegal Covid gathering only to find off-duty officers partying inside, red-faced chiefs have been forced to admit. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1444925/covid-news-police-coronavirus-party-hove-brighton-sussex-police What a major embarrassment for the Sussex police force.🤫