UK Policing News

THIS is the shocking moment a police officer PUNCHES a puppy and yells "you little b*****d" after it pooed on his carpet. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14751326/shocking-moment-police-officer-punches-puppy/

A Met police officer who tried to send “highly sexualised” messages to a 13-year-old girl has been jailed for more than two years. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-officer-mark-collins-jailed-groom-girl-highly-sexual-texts-b932747.html

Detectives investigating a violent armed robbery at a shop in New Cross have released an image of a man they are seeking to identify in connection with the incident. https://news.met.police.uk/news/image-released-of-man-sought-following-armed-robbery-in-new-cross-426443

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56941544 Benjamin Hannam was found guilty on 1 April of membership of the extreme-right group National Action, which he left before joining the Met.

FURIOUS Daily Express readers called for National Service to be brought back after a cruel group of teenagers kicked a pensioner into a freezing cold river. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1429089/Teenagers-attack-pensioner-River-Mersey-Warrington-Cheshire-Express-readers Hope the police get this scumbag who did this. 😠

The CEO of the messaging app Signal claims to have hacked the phone-cracking tools used by police in Britain and around the world to extract information from seized devices. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/22/signal-founder-i-hacked-police-phone-cracking-tool-cellebrite If crims can leave code on a phone that could compromise the tools police use to examine them, what implications could this have for digital forensics, reliability of evidence?

PC Darren McIntyre, 47, repeatedly hit Mark Bamber, leaving him with blood pouring from a cut to his cheek, during a welfare check on the victim's girlfriend. A court heard the policeman had yelled "you better wind your f***ing neck in" at Bamber, 52, before grabbing him for the vicious assault. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/bent-coppers-lied-after-colleague-battered-man-in-his-own-home/ar-BB1gdhQr?ocid=msedgntp

Officers from the Met’s Specialist Crime Command have recovered a Skorpion submachine gun and approximately 200 rounds of ammunition following a pre-planned firearms warrant in Northolt. https://news.met.police.uk/news/skorpion-submachine-gun-and-ammunition-recovered-426348

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/24/law-firm-takes-up-case-of-nurse-fined-10000-for-1-pay-protest One of the UK’s biggest police forces is refusing to back down after being accused of wrongly issuing a £10,000 fine to a nurse who was protesting over the government’s 1% pay rise for NHS workers, reigniting concern over new powers to inhibit protest.

THIS is the first picture of a tragic police community support officer whose death near a woodland has been declared as "suspicious". https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1429171/Breaking-news-Police-officer-dead-suspicious-Julia-James-Kent-Police-Akholt-Wood

A builder has been jailed for seven years for attempting to smuggle a firearm from The Netherlands disguised as a hair clipper in the post. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/nca-builder-pistol-smuggle-b931481.html

An ambulance worker who died after an 'object' pierced his windscreen as he was responding to a 999 emergency had returned to the front line after retiring last year. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9508909/Ambulance-worker-died-object-smashed-vehicle-returned-line.html Hope they find this scumbag and charge the person with murder and said loss to to his family.

Robberies, assaults and even a drive-by shooting are among hundreds of crimes involving thugs on electric scooters, a Mail investigation reveals. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9510165/Hundreds-crimes-committed-thugs-electric-scooters-investigation-reveals.html