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THIS is the moment a cop reportedly pepper-sprays a man who refused to wear a mask claiming he had a medical condition. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12578596/train-passenger-face-mask-cop-spray/
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More than £300,000 in cash suspected of being the proceeds of crime has been recovered following an investigation by the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). Officers had seized the total sum of £306,805 on 18 January 2018. Searches of a house belonging to husband and wife Sailesh and Harkit Singara in Edgware, north west London, revealed a total of more than £200,000. Around half of the money was neatly stacked on a bed, with another £100,000 in a suitcase on the floor. Nearby, officers found a further £100,000 in a bag which was in the possession of Sailesh Mandalia, a business associate of Mr Singara. Believing t…
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A police officer has been left seriously injured after he was stabbed in East Sussex. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/eastbourne-police-officer-stabbed-sussex-a4547016.html
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More than £300,000 in cash suspected of being the proceeds of crime has been recovered following an investigation by the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). Officers had seized the total sum of £306,805 on 18 January 2018. Searches of a house belonging to husband and wife Sailesh and Harkit Singara in Edgware, north west London, revealed a total of more than £200,000. Around half of the money was neatly stacked on a bed, with another £100,000 in a suitcase on the floor. Nearby, officers found a further £100,000 in a bag which was in the possession of Sailesh Mandalia, a business associate of Mr Singara. Believing th…
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The deputy head teacher of a primary school has admitted online child sexual offences after a National Crime Agency investigation. Richard Swinnerton, 30, of Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, said he had watched child sexual abuse on the dark web for two years before he was arrested by NCA officers at his home on 15 May this year. He told investigators the footage including adults raping children. Swinnerton - who has resigned from his job at St Clare’s Catholic Primary School in Middlesbrough – said he used TOR software (The Onion Router) to make himself anonymous on the dark web. The charges related to online child sexual abuse imagery. Officers have found no eviden…
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image copyrightGetty Images image captionThe forces said they had so far paid a total of £3.3m to KPMG for Equip, which has been in development for four years Software that three police forces hoped would make them more efficient could be scrapped before it is rolled out. Thames Valley, Sussex and Surrey Police said they have paid £3.3m in total to accountancy firm KPMG since 2016 for the new program, Equip. The Thames Valley's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) said the forces' internal costs were "very considerable" and exceeded the total paid to KPMG. Their chief constables may recommend the project is ditched within w…
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image copyrightPA Media image captionThe cluster is linked to the driving school at the Police Scotland training college Seven people with links to the driving school at the Police Scotland training college in Tulliallan have tested positive for coronavirus. NHS Fife said the seven people included household contacts and all were experiencing mild symptoms. The health board said there was no evidence of transmission within the wider facility. Contact-tracing is being carried out and contacts are being asked to self-isolate pending further tests. Dr Lorna Watson, a public health consultant at NHS Fife, said: "We appr…
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POLICE officers are "exhausted" after handling coronavirus restrictions, protests and illegal raves on top of regular crimes, a forces chief has admitted. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1334904/police-officers-coronavirus-lockdown-protests-illegal-raves
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POLICE will be given sweeping new powers to remove climate change demonstrators who disrupt businesses or transport links. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12653930/police-ministers-new-powers-disruptive-extinction-rebellion/ About time something was done with the demonstrators that disrupt London.👍
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Five people have been arrested by the National Crime Agency as part of aninvestigation, supported by the Police Service of Northern Ireland, into a crimegroup suspected of attempting to import cocaine worth £1 million. Officers moved in to arrest the five on Thursday 10 September, detaining three men in the Essex area and two more in North Wales. At the same time three lorries were seized. The men are suspected of being involved in the importation of class A drugs from the continent. Four of those arrested are known to be based in Northern Ireland, the other man is from the north of England. They are all aged between 21 and 59. Specialist Border Force officers were c…
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An officer has been dismissed without notice following a misconduct hearing. PC Laura Thorogood answered allegations that her conduct breached the standards of professional behaviour in relation to honesty and integrity, discreditable conduct and challenging and reporting improper conduct. http://news.met.police.uk/news/serving-officer-dismissed-without-notice-410424
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The police officer in Newquay, Cornwall was seriously injured and sustained a number of burns to his arms and legs following the assault at around 10.20am this morning. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12643674/cop-serious-burns-newquay-arrest-attempted-murder/
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Drug dealers and a thug who drew a knife on police were among a dozen serious criminals deported back to Albania yesterday. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8716289/Priti-Patel-kicks-Albanian-drug-dealers-thug-dozen-criminals-deported.html
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Update: Kevin Sheppard was sentenced today at Northampton Crown Court to 16 months imprisonment. Update: 9 September 2020 Kevin Sheppard was sentenced today at Northampton Crown Court to 16 months imprisonment, to be suspended for two years. He also received a 10 year Sexual Harm Prevention Order. 29 July 2020 A teaching assistant bought an online catalogue of child sexual abuse using £365 of Amazon vouchers. Kevin Sheppard, 26, bought the abuse footage between June and September 2018 and sent the seller eight different Amazon vouchers totalling £365. Sheppard, who was employed as a teaching assistant at Huxlow Science College in Northamptonshire, specifically req…
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A POLICE officer is understood to have been struck by a car while on duty at the scene of a reported stabbing outside Manor House station in northeast London. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1333647/london-news-stabbing-knife-crime-latest-mansion-house-station-met-police-ambulance
