UK Policing News

ROTHERHAM Police have arrested 15 men as part of an operation into historic child sex abuse in the South Yorkshire town. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1349546/rotherham-child-sex-abuse-probe-arrests-latest-news-today

Middle-class recreational drug users have been targeted by UK police forces warning them they have been identified - after officers seized county lines dealers' phones. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9596557/Drug-users-ordered-phone-stunned-police-texting-want-help-you.html

A police officer, who used his warrant card to approach a female jogger and then made sexist and racist comments towards her, has kept his job despite being found guilty of gross misconduct. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-officer-who-used-warrant-card-to-accost-female-jogger-keeps-job-despite-gross-misconduct-finding/ar-AAKfmeC?ocid=msedgdhp

Eleven firearms, including hand guns, machine guns, machine pistols and an assault rifle have been recovered in County Down in a National Crime Agency operation. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/assault-rifle-pistols-and-multiple-machine-guns-and-ammunition-recovered-in-most-significant-firearms-find-in-northern-ireland-in-a-decade

A police employee has been charged with five criminal counts in an investigation emerging from Operation Venetic – the UK’s law enforcement response to the takedown of encrypted comms platform EncroChat. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-venetic-police-worker-among-three-charged

Police recruits joining after university are not prepared to work nights or weekends and are 'sadly lacking' in life experience, a chief constable has said. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9593943/Graduate-police-recruits-sadly-lacking-life-experience-chief-constable-Nick-Adderley-says.html

Police preparing for the mass protests expected to disrupt the G7 Summit in Cornwall next month were today practicing the removal of protestors who have glued themselves to plastic or steel and need to be cut free. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9601489/Police-prepare-protests-Cornwall-G7-learn-remove-activists-glue-themselves.html

Rioters have set vehicles alight and attacked police during a night of violence in Swansea - with officers threatening 'robust' action to bring the situation under control. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9602597/Rioters-set-vehicles-alight-attack-police-night-violence-Swansea.html

A police officer stirred a cup of tea with his genitals and made sexual comments to female colleagues, a disciplinary court heard. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9588435/Police-officer-stirred-female-PCSOs-cup-tea-genitals-misconduct-hearing-told.html

The Metropolitan Police seized more than £47 million of “dirty money” during the coronavirus pandemic after organised crime gangs were forced to stockpile cash when their businesses were closed. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/met-s-47m-dirty-cash-swoop-as-covid-cripples-gangs-money-laundering/ar-BB1gUBUU?ocid=msedgdhp

More than 200 shipping containers are being searched and four people have been arrested in dawn raids on a suspected county lines drugs gang. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/container-yard-raided-in-police-swoop-on-suspected-county-lines-drugs-gang/ar-BB1gUf1h?ocid=msedgdhp

A probationer police officer has been dismissed without notice following an accelerated misconduct hearing which concluded on Tuesday 18 May. https://news.met.police.uk/news/probationer-pc-dismissed-following-misconduct-hearing-427648 If she did not want to do the job why join the police .

A police officer has been charged over the deaths of a ten-year-old boy and his aunt after they were killed when a car ploughed into them in south London. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/police-officer-charged-dangerous-driving-child-actor-makayah-mcdermott-b935889.html

Two men have been arrested after police raided a major cannabis operation in a former bingo hall. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/drugs-haul-at-bingo-hall-two-men-arrested-as-police-seize-2-2m-worth-of-cannabis/ar-BB1gTYaM?ocid=msedgdhp

FOUR family members brutally attacked another traveller group with knives, machetes and billhooks on a caravan site. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1437815/Travellers-caravan-site-fight-violence-jailed-knives-machetes-Irchester