UK Policing News

A MAN was left ‘choked' when he saw a police officer pay for a young boy's shopping. Now, he has launched an appeal to find the kind man. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1414668/Tesco-news-Liverpool-police-officer-tesco-paid-teenager-shopping-moreton Nice story and police given credit for a change from bad press.👍

A motorist has been jailed for seven months after doctoring the time stamp on a CCTV image to make out his car was at his home at the time he was accused of dangerous driving. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9396835/Ipswich-Motorist-25-tried-trick-police-faking-CCTV-image-jailed-seven-months.html stupid man police will find you out in the end .👍

Despite her client's lengthy list of previous convictions, Emma Tuff's lawyer begged the judge to "take a chance on her". https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/reckless-mum-in-70mph-cop-chase-on-30mph-road-begs-judge-to-take-a-chance-on-her/ar-BB1eX5x5?ocid=msedgdhp

Approximately £150,000 cash, 20kgs of Class A and B drugs and a suspected firearm have been seized as part of a multi-police force operation that has been months in the making. https://news.met.police.uk/news/drugs-cash-and-a-firearm-seized-during-multi-force-raids-across-uk-423980

Police officers working to identify and arrest those suspected of committing a linked series of robberies in south west London between October and November 2020, where the majority of the victims were women, have arrested one man and charged two others. https://news.met.police.uk/news/two-charged-in-connection-with-moped-enabled-offences-424045

Police are searching for a man who assaulted two girls and a woman in linked attacks in north east London. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9399241/Police-issue-CCTV-sex-assault-suspect-northeast-London.html

A police officer raped a woman after groping her on their first date and sexually assaulted another victim he met on Match.com, a court has heard. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9397051/West-Midlands-Police-officer-raped-woman-groping-beer-garden-date-court-hears.html

Five members of a Polish organised crime group have been jailed for the importation and supply of nearly £1million worth of cocaine, supplying almost £1million worth of MDMA, and possession of a firearm, following an investigation by the Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/prison-for-2m-drugs-gang-after-investigators-uncover-illegal-firearms-and-ammunition

Officers investigating a violent burglary where £20,000 was stolen have released Images of three men who posed as police to trick their victims. https://news.met.police.uk/news/appeal-to-identify-suspects-in-fake-cops-burglary-423938

A MULTI-MILLION pound prosecution of a Scotland Yard detective accused of running a prostitute ring ended after a judge ruled that he could accuse the police of wide-scale corruption in his defence. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1412848/detective-dan-williams-accused-running-prostitute-ring-walks-free

Copy and paste from UK Cop Humour. This PERFECTLY summarises my feelings. "This is doing the rounds on Social Media today, and it's terrible to read, but worse than that, many of you will relate... "I’m a cop of 20 years. I’m leaving. I’m done. I’m done with the duplicitous liars and twisters of truth in Parliament, who have destroyed policing in order to further their own careers. I’m done with those charlatans and snake oil salesmen and women who spread their bile, whose acid eats away at society and it’s values and future. I’m done with the utter lack of consequences for their corruption. I’m done with duplic…

At least 36 people were arrested at an anti-lockdown protest in central London which saw crowds hurling missiles at police and assaulting officers. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/met-hyde-park-westminster-st-paul-s-cathedral-arrests-police-injured-b925344.html

A German trucker has been jailed for 19 years after he tried to smuggle half a tonne of cocaine worth £38million into Britain hidden inside stacks of tyres in his lorry. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9384311/German-trucker-57-jailed-19-years-drug-smuggling.html

Undercover police were shot at as they chased a group of men on foot through a north London housing estate. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-colindale-shooting-undercover-officers-attacks-b925243.html