UK Policing News

A man’s in custody after officers recovered drugs and knives from a car in Stourbridge. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/april/man-arrested-after-drugs-and-weapons-recovered-in-stourbridge/ Good work by officers that to the arrest of a drug dealer after police made a discovery of two knives and a large amount of suspected Class A drugs👏

A drug dealer tried and failed to flush his stash down the toilet after he was caught short by a police visit. https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news/nottinghamshire/news/news/2026/april/drug-dealer-jailed-after-failing-to-flush-stash-down-the-toilet/ Good work by police arresting a drug dealer when police found a bag containing 94 wraps of heroin and 37 wraps of crack cocaine floating at the top of the toilet bowl ,now off the streets and stopped his drugs getting onto the streets.👏

Armed police guarding London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan have been accused of a major security gaffe after leaving a holdall full of guns on the kerb outside his home. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15705209/Armed-police-London-mayor-Sir-Sadiq-Khan-leave-holdall-guns-kerb-home-security-gaffe.html Good job nobody else got there hands on the guns now five armed protection officers have been temporarily suspended from frontline duties until a conclusion is reached.

Specialist roads policing officers joined South Special Constabulary colleagues in Southend on the afternoon of Friday 27 March, carrying out targeted patrols to tackle unsafe driving and protect everyone who uses our roads. https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2026/april/keeping-southends-roads-safe/ Good work by Specialist roads policing officers joined South Special Constabulary in keeping six vehicles were seized for having no insurance driving without the correct licence poor vehicle maintenance and dangerous driving standards👏

This is the moment officers tackled a man to the floor just minutes after receiving a report of him wielding a dangerous weapon in public. https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/news/south-yorkshire/news/news/april-2026/moment-doncaster-officers-tackle-weapon-wielding-man-to-the-floor-and-make-swift-arrest/ Good work by the officer who arrested the man for wielding a dangerous weapon in public and allegedly making threats to kill and behaving erratically.👏

A former prison officer and a gang who smuggled drugs, mobile phones and USB sticks into a prison during visits, have been jailed for a combined 25 years, following a Metropolitan Police investigation. https://news.met.police.uk/news/gang-sentenced-for-prison-smuggling-operation-507930 Good work by the MET in bringing this gang to justice in smuggling cannabis resin into the prison👏

A man has been jailed for more than 10 years for committing a series of offences including robberies where he targeted the elderly and vulnerable, burglaries and causing serious injury by dangerous driving. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/april/man-jailed-for-committing-series-of-robberies-burglaries-and-causing-serious-injury-by-dangerous-driving/ Good work by WMP in bringing him to justice and given a decent sentence 10 years👏

Three of the Metropolitan Police constables are under criminal investigation following the incident in Tottenham in April 2025. https://news.sky.com/story/six-london-police-officers-investigated-after-boy-16-forced-off-e-bike-and-left-with-fractured-knee-13526789 he was arrested for a racially aggravated public order offence, threats to kill and dangerous driving forced off e-bike wonder what the outcome will be.🤨

We have charged a teenage boy following an incident in Litherland on Monday 23 March where two firearms were seized. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2026/april-2026/teenage-boy-charged-after-firearms-incident-in-litherland/ Good arrest by officers who have charged A 17-year-old boy and two firearms were seized.

Officers in Stockport this morning (1 April) recovered a handgun and several rounds of ammunition as part of Operation Vulcan’s ongoing activity in the area. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/april/handgun-recovered-in-brinnington-after-operation-vulcan-conduct-search/ Great work by officers who found this gun and stopping getting back into the wrong hands with multiple arrests while seizing drugs, weapons, and vehicles as part of their deployment.👏

A 24-year-old man has been charged with firearms offences after he was stopped at the port of Dover and police seized a number of weapons and ammunition. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-charged-after-firearms-seized-at-dover-507864 Good job this man has been arrested and guns seized before they might have got into the wrong hands.👏

A Clapham security guard has described the moment he was forced to lock customers inside a shop as mobs of feral youths ran wild. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15696633/Clapham-security-guard-customers-youths-Met-Police-Easter.html With whats happing are police losing control of the streets to the young mobs of today?🤬

Four members of an organised criminal gang behind a series of mobile phone robberies across London have been convicted following a Met Police investigation. https://news.met.police.uk/pressreleases/four-convicted-following-met-investigation-into-mobile-phone-shop-robberies-3440921 Good work by the MET in bringing phone shop robberies to justice👏

Two Vietnamese nationals who advertised small boats people smuggling on Facebook have been sentenced following a major UK-French investigation. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/vietnamese-pair-advertising-small-boats-crossings-on-facebook-sentenced People who deal in small boats people smuggling deserve a stiff sentence like this pair Hop Cahn Nguyen was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and Hoang My Tra Nguyen was sentenced to 10 years' and six months' imprisonment.👏

A former Wakefield man has been sentenced for non-recent sex offences against a child. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/sex-offender-jailed-child-sexual-offences-committed-1980s-wakefield Good work by WYP in bringing this Sex Offender to justice and now behind bars.👏