UK Policing News

A haulage firm owner who used the encrypted messaging platform EncroChat to lead a criminal network which moved drugs and dirty cash across Europe has been convicted. Thomas Maher, 39, of Wiltshire Close, Warrington, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court this morning [25 September] where he pleaded guilty to two charges relating to importing Class A drugs into the UK and two charges of money laundering. The National Crime Agency moved in to arrest Maher following evidence acquired through EncroChat – the encrypted messaging platform that was brought down in June as part of Operation Venetic. NCA Deputy Director Craig Naylor said: “Maher was the logistics man for a numbe…

County Lines drug networks have been targeted in a week of law enforcement activity across the UK. The activity was coordinated by the Home Office funded National County Lines Coordination Centre, which is jointly run by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and National Crime Agency. Between Monday 14 and 20 September, as a result of operations carried out by police forces and Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs): 1,041 arrests were made 1,551 vulnerable people were engaged for safeguarding purposes 861 cuckooed addresses were visited 102 devices being used to operate County Lines were seized There were 69 referrals to the National Referral Mechanism, which …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54260470?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england&link_location=live-reporting-story Exporters to the EU face 7,000-truck-long queues in Kent and two-day delays to trade after the Brexit transition period ends, the government has warned. Do you think recruitment to Kent RPU is open or closed currently? The logistics of managing all this with police resources sounds horrible. Those promised 20,000 new officers we will be definitely getting should probably go there.

Around a tonne of cocaine, concealed within a load of fruit, has been seized at Dover, as part of a joint National Crime Agency and Police Scotland Organised Crime Partnership investigation. The discovery was made in the early hours of Tuesday 22 September after specialist Border Force search teams were brought in to assist officers working as part of the Organised Crime Partnership (Scotland). The drugs were discovered in pallets which had arrived into Dover on a vessel from South America. Following the seizure, NCA and Police Scotland officers moved in to arrest two men on suspicion of importing class A drugs, a 40-year-old in Brentwood, Essex, and a 64-year-old i…

A HUNGRY cop put on his blue lights, ran a red and smashed into a BMW — after his wife texted to say: “Tea is on the table.” https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12701383/cop-crashes-bmw-blue-lights-tea-time/