UK Policing News

With crime spiralling, and fewer bobbies on the beat, anxious residents are turning to independent companies to uphold the law. Sensible, or a worrying new development? Samuel Fishwick reports Focused on London company: MLB (My Local Bobby) - ex policemen who patrol subscribed areas and bring private prosecutions after making arrests of e.g. shoplifters. Good article.

Plymouth Herald

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statutory-instrument-on-royal-navy-police-enforcement-powers The Ministry of Defence has laid a Statutory Instrument in Parliament to introduce a Regulation under the Policing and Crime Act 2017. This will provide Royal Navy Police with additional law enforcement powers as the transition period for Britain’s exit from the EU comes to an end. Additional powers would come into effect on Thursday 07 January 2021 and will apply to England and Wales territorial waters only. The Government is determined to ensure the security of UK waters from a range of threats under all circumstances. Contingency work for the end of the EU Transiti…

THE chief constable of Greater Manchester Police has quit after the force was put in special measures. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13521888/greater-manchester-chief-constable-quits/

BRAZEN thieves used a blowtorch to break into a house and stole a £25,000 Audi and motorbike as the family slept upstairs. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13518018/brazen-thieves-blowtorch-audi/

Six police officers could be sacked after they were recorded making "abhorrent" and inappropriate comments in a "toxic" specialist police unit. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/officers-face-sack-after-being-recorded-making-abhorrent-comments-in-toxic-police-unit/ar-BB1c3jdg?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds

THIEVES stole £250,000 of fuel by tapping into one of Britain’s major underground pipelines. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13479222/gang-steals-250000-fuel-siphon-underground/

THIS is the dramatic moment a vigilante driver killed a thief who stole his bike from outside his home by ramming him off the road. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13508827/moment-vigilante-driver-killed-thief/

AN Uber driver helped rescue six cops after their armoured police van flipped over on a 20mph roundabout. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13512201/cops-freed-from-van-by-uber-driver/

DRINKERS at a wake in Hackney Wick clashed with cops last night as seven were arrested for breaking Covid rules. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13513714/drinkers-wake-hackney-wick-cops-covid-rules/

This is the dramatic moment police Tasered a domestic assault suspect as he stood in his doorway. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/dramatic-moment-policeman-fires-50-000-volt-taser-at-assault-suspect/ar-BB1c2kmP?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds

POLICE funding will rise to £15.8billion next year after the Government handed officers another £636million to combat crime and deliver safer streets. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1373647/uk-crime-police-funding-16-billion-combat-crime

A Romanian couple who ‘groomed’ their six-year-old son to help them steal a £67,000 watch from Harrods have been jailed for a total of 26 months. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/romanian-couple-who-groomed-son-to-help-steal-67-000-watch-jailed/ar-BB1bWOrS?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds

Moment police find 12 Iraqi and Iranian migrants in the back of fruit lorry on the M6 in the West Midlands - as the driver and passenger are arrested https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9055493/Moment-police-13-suspected-migrants-fruit-lorry.html

A motorist who mowed down a police officer during a road rage rampage at a supermarket has been jailed for six-and-a-half years. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/motorist-jailed-for-road-rage-attack-on-police-officer/ar-BB1bWWiW?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds