UK Policing News

Statement from Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball following events in Clapham Common: https://news.met.police.uk/news/statement-from-ac-helen-ball-following-events-in-clapham-common-423210

A METAL found in car exhausts is now worth 20 times that of gold — sparking a surge of thefts across the UK. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14331319/metal-car-exhausts-worth-20-times-gold-sparking-thefts/

Police are appealing for witnesses and information, and specifically drivers with dashcam footage, to contact them as part of an investigation following a stabbing in Tower Hamlets. https://news.met.police.uk/news/appeal-for-dashcam-footage-following-stepney-stabbing-423208

Detectives investigating a stabbing that took place in Ilford on Thursday have charged a 12-year-old boy. https://news.met.police.uk/news/boy-charged-in-connection-with-ilford-stabbing-423203

A brazen money launderer who tried to smuggle almost £1.4 million cash out of the UK in his luggage has been jailed for more than two years. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/money-launderer-tried-to-leave-heathrow-with-suitcases-stuffed-full-of-cash

A man who sexually abused a number of children over a 35-year period has pleaded guilty to 77 offences. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-pleads-guilty-to-77-counts-of-child-sexual-abuse-423171

More than 40 people are facing fines of £800 after they were caught at an illegal rave in the vault of a disused bank. https://news.met.police.uk/news/over-40-fines-issued-following-rave-in-southall-422978

A 10-year-old girl was tasered by police when they found her armed with a weapon in her home, it has been claimed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9337825/Police-Taser-girl-aged-10-threatening-mother-private-gated-estate.html

A firearms supplier who kept an arsenal of lethal weapons in his house, including in his daughter’s bedroom, has been jailed for eight years. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/londoner-had-haul-of-firearms-explosives-and-fake-police-ids

Two men have been arrested following the seizure of 20kg of cocaine and £25,000 in cash at a flat in Rotherhithe, South East London. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/two-charged-after-1-6m-worth-of-cocaine-and-cash-found-in-london-flat

Detectives investigating an incident in which eight police officers were sprayed with a noxious substance during an anti-lockdown protest in Hyde Park have released an image of a man they would like to identify. https://news.met.police.uk/news/appeal-to-identify-man-after-pepper-spray-attack-on-eight-police-officers-422684

A retired Met Police chief died inside his car which he set on fire outside his £1million mansion, reports suggest. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9333647/Retired-Met-Police-chief-dies-setting-car-ablaze.html

A Met Police officer was knocked unconscious and another suffered a suspected hand fracture while trying to break up a 'hostile' lockdown-breaching party of 30. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9333713/Police-bust-illegal-lockdown-party-30-revellers-pelted-officers-drinks.html

POLICE and the air ambulance have been called to a major incident in Ynyswen, in Rhondda, Wales. A white forensic tent has been spotted in the street. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1406076/Wales-emergency-Treorchy-serious-incident-rhondda-police-Ynyswen