UK Policing News

A crime gang member has been jailed for four years after travelling from Liverpool to go on an early hours stealing spree involving ram-raiding a Cornish village shop. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/moment-bungling-burglars-fail-to-drag-cash-machine-from-village-shop/ar-BB1cMPKK?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds

Officers from the Specialist Operations Road Policing Unit and Armed Response Group were operating in and around Salisbury targeting vehicles using ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) technology. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/six-uninsured-drivers-caught-on-salisbury-s-roads/ar-BB1cN0k9?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds

police fined 42 mourners £200 each for breaching lockdown after more than 100 attended a traveller’s funeral wake in north London. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-traveller-wake-seven-sisters-b899974.html

BURGLARY gangs are disguising themselves in hi-viz workwear to gain access to homes for terrifying break-ins. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13749881/burglary-gangs-disguise-themselves-in-hi-viz/

Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick has questioned why she and her entire Scotland Yard management board are scheduled to receive the Covid-19 vaccine before frontline officers. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/covid-vaccine-cressida-dick-police-officers-b877930.html My own opinion all frontline should get the jab as they are out more on our streets.

Police have arrested a man suspected of rape and two others on suspicion of trafficking and money laundering after raiding addresses in north and central London. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-escort-agency-rape-police-arrest-b893724.html

A gangster caught with three loaded handguns and drugs with an estimated street value of £1million has been jailed for 18 years. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/ali-serroukh-jailed-guns-cocaine-million-pound-b899802.html

A woman was fined £200 after driving 100 miles across three counties to get a McDonald’s burger. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/woman-fined-100-mile-mcdonald-s-meal-b876202.html

Some 150,000 arrest records have accidentally been wiped from police databases in a major technological blunder that could impact future investigations. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/150-000-arrest-records-wiped-from-police-databases-in-major-blunder/ar-BB1cLueT?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds

A COP has tested positive for Covid after he was spat at by a suspect who 'used the virus as a weapon'. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13738904/cop-positive-covid-spat-suspect-virus/

A man has been jailed for using multiple false passports and fake IDs to fraudulently apply for loans totalling nearly £200,000. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-man-jailed-fraud-loans-fake-ids-b875044.html

An illegal rave planned in a disused railway tunnel against lockdown rules has been foiled by police in south east London. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/covid-rules-illegal-rave-dulwich-wood-b880632.html

paramedic has been found guilty of raping a patient in her own home and of sexually assaulting another female patient in the back of his ambulance. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/andrew-wheeler-paramedic-rape-ambulance-b854522.html

FURIOUS protesters have hurled smoke bombs and other missiles at Cardiff Bay police station after the death of a man who died just hours after being released from custody. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1383128/Wales-news-Cardiff-Bay-Police-station-protests-Mahmud-Hassan-death-custody-lockdown-latest

Police chiefs have acknowledged some officers “may get it wrong” when imposing the country's Covid-19 rules and that people are becoming “fed up” with ongoing national lockdown measures. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/police-coronavirus-restrictions-enforce-b826502.html