UK Policing News

Getty Images *:not([hidden]):not(style) ~ *:not([hidden]):not(style){margin-top:1rem;}]]>The most vulnerable children are being "failed by the state" and a broken residential care system, the children's commissioner for England has said. Greater use of private provision has led to a fragmented, unco-ordinated and irrational system amid "significant profits", said Anne Longfield. The system has been allowed to slip deeper into crisis, she said. The government said an independent review of children's social care would begin "as soon as possible". Ms Longfield has published three reports detailing the plight of children the system "doesn't know what to do with". She sa…

Getty Images *:not([hidden]):not(style) ~ *:not([hidden]):not(style){margin-top:1rem;}]]>The UK has become the first country in Europe to pass 50,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the latest government figures. A total of 50,365 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up 595 in the past 24 hours. The UK is the fifth country to pass 50,000 deaths, coming after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico. It comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the UK was at a "critical moment" in the pandemic. How many cases are there in your area?How does the UK compare to the rest of the world?Coronavirus: The lives lost in a single dayThere have been some…

An Essex builder jailed for drug trafficking has been ordered to hand over more than £1.2million of assets. Jason Warner, aged 49, from Cambridge Road, Canvey Island, was given a confiscation order totalling £1,220,192 at Kingston Crown Court on Monday 9 November. Warner was warned he would serve up to a further seven years in prison if he failed to pay the full sum within three months, and would still be liable for the money. Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership – a joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service unit – arrested Warner in October 2018 for supplying multiple kilos of cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines across London and Essex. He…

Two firearms and over a hundred rounds of ammunition have been found at a property in Warrington as part of a National Crime Agency EncroChat investigation into the large scale supply of firearms. Officers searched a house on Selworthy Drive, Warrington, where two taped packages were buried in the back garden. One package contained a loaded Smith & Wesson 9mm semi-automatic pistol and approximately 100 rounds of ammunition, while a Grand Power semi-automatic pistol with over 20 rounds of ammunition and a suppressor were recovered from a second package. The NCA had reason to believe weapons were being kept at the house through EncroChat data retrieved during Opera…

Getty Images *:not([hidden]):not(style) ~ *:not([hidden]):not(style){margin-top:1rem;}]]>An evacuation-style operation is to be mounted to get students home safely for Christmas, once the national lockdown in England ends. Working with their local public health bodies, universities will allocate their students travel slots during the week of 3 to 9 December. Universities will have to move all teaching online from 9 December, so students can study from home. As many students as possible will be offered rapid result Covid tests. These are set to begin at the end of November, and universities in areas with higher rates of the disease will be prioritised. However, any student…

A man who attempted to smuggle 1.5kg of cocaine from Jamaica to the UK to then sell to pay off a debt has been sentenced to over eight years in prison. Jamaican national Clayton Johnson admitted to swallowing 56 packages of cocaine in an attempt to smuggle them into the UK within his stomach, plus concealing additional packages within two specially modified pairs of shoes. He had intended to sell the drugs to repay a £6,000 debt incurred by damaging a boat in Jamaica. Johnson, 52, of Downham Way, Bromley, appeared at Isleworth Crown Court on 05 November where he received the eight years and three months prison sentence. Johnson flew into Gatwick Airport from Jamaic…