UK Policing News

Birmingham stabbings: Police declare 'major incident' as several injured 6 September 2020 Image copyright @ShauninBrum Image caption Police set up a cordon at the junction of Hurst Street and Brom…

Coronavirus: 'Critical moment' as students return to university 5 September 2020 Related TopicsCoronavirus pandemic Image copyright PA Media Image caption Thousands of students are preparing to ret…

A Polish lorry driver has been jailed for 12 years after National Crime Agency officers used intelligence from the infiltration of an encrypted comms platform to catch him. In February an international law enforcement partnership cracked the EncroChat network - used exclusively by criminals to communicate with each other in secret. The NCA worked through millions of pieces of information to develop cases and was able to use the intelligence to catch Dariusz Urban, 49, as he drove his lorry into Harwich International Port on 15 April this year. Because of what the Agency knew from the encrypted messages, it was able to tip off Border Force officers who were waiting fo…

By Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent, BBC News 4 September 2020 Image caption Emily Hunt has campaigned for justice for five years A man has been sentenced for filming a n…

A barber who returned to the UK from Brazil with £300,000 worth of cocaine hidden in suitcases has been jailed. Jhonatan Martins Kirchhoff, 22, from Commercial Road, Bournemouth, told National Crime Agency investigators that he had turned to drug smuggling to earn extra cash and pay off his own drug debts after work dried up because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The dual German/Brazilian national was stopped by Border Force officials on 1 July after he landed at Heathrow Airport from Sao Paulo, Brazil. A search of one of his suitcases revealed a sticky substance that tested positive for cocaine. When officers searched a second suitcase they found a concealment at the top…