UK Policing News

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9486463/Merseyside-police-chief-says-pump-billions-cutting-poverty-upholding-law.html I have to wonder at times why Chief Constable's make unusual remarks. I think that Andy Cooke, the Chief Constable of Merseyside has just managed to alienate himself from law abiding Liverpudlians. He may have cause to regret his comment "Saying even violent criminals are not inherently bad people and he'd rather pump billions into cutting poverty than upholding the law". I have no idea how many violent criminals he has actually faced or dealt with but I have known some who had no regard for the Law or other people. Many come from families …

A POLICE chief sick of seeing his officers assaulted is the first in Britain to arm everyone with a Taser. Nick Adderley, boss of the Northamptonshire force, acted so he never again has to feel the "sick knot in my stomach" when one is viciously attacked. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1425131/Northamptonshire-police-chief-violence-on-police-stun-gun-tasers

Two police officers have been forced to apologise after they were caught kissing in a patrol car at a Tesco supermarket. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9488257/Two-police-officers-forced-apologise-caught-kissing-patrol-car.html

A bomb has been discovered beneath the car of a serving police officer in Dungiven, Northern Ireland. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/northernireland/bomb-found-under-car-of-serving-police-officer-in-northern-ireland-major-security-alert/ar-BB1fQOlI?ocid=msedgdhp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/police-watchdog-blasts-tory-ministers-23946189.amp Many forces expressed frequent frustration at the lack of notice they were given about some changes in the law and guidance You can easily see how muddled it's been, with the amount of people that were apparently reporting their neighbour for taking "longer than your 1 hour of allowed exercise" for example. Don't get me wrong, guidance is there for a reason and ideally should be followed. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you necessarily should. But it's not the job of police to enforce mere guidance. It's also government guidance th…

Police are hunting a group of men after a woman was raped in what officers have described as a 'random and sickening attack'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9490605/Woman-20s-raped-gang-men-random-sickening-attack-park.html

Three gangsters have been convicted of hunting a man and stabbing him to death with knives and a Zombie sword in front of a terrified child. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9479541/Three-gangsters-guilty-hunting-man-stabbing-death-child.html

POLICE are responding to a bomb threat outside Hendon Police College, London, this morning following reports of a suspicious vehicle. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1424332/Met-police-academy-bomb-threat-latest-Peel-Centre-Hendon-Police-College-Aerodrome-road

A man who attacked a police officer with a four-foot long sword has been jailed. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-who-attacked-police-officer-with-a-sword-in-dagenham-jailed-425516

AN Audi driver who had a child in the car smashed into a lorry at 80mph during a police chase. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14664608/audi-smashes-lorry-80mph/

An off-duty Met police officer was ambushed by 12 robbers who hit him with a glass bottle before snatching his warrant card and designer watch outside a west London bar. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/robbers-jailed-police-officer-attack-rayners-lane-b929575.html

POLICE in London are hunting a hit-and-run driver after an officer was mowed down in the north of the capital. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1423655/London-news-Police-officer-hit-and-run-Dartmouth-Park-Hill-Tufnell-Park-Camden-updates

A teenager was left blind in one eye after falling victim to a vicious gang attack with machetes on a north London train. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/teenager-blinded-rambo-machete-tottenham-jailed-b929691.html

Three men have been charged after a woman suffered life-changing injuries in a shooting in east London. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/hackney-shooting-three-charged-awoman-life-changing-injuries-b929558.html