UK Policing News

The Metropolitan police have been using software which can be deployed to help identify whether different ethnic groups “specialise” in particular types of crime, the Guardian can reveal. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/27/met-police-use-software-ethnic-groups-specialise-profile

A police officer has been filmed kneeling on a suspect's neck during an arrest despite screams to stop. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8533433/amp/Handcuffed-black-man-yells-neck-police-officer-kneels-arrest.html

A man from Liverpool, arrested as part of National Crime Agency-led Operation Venetic, has been charged with a possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and three counts of conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm. Jonathan Gordon, (born 18/07/1987) of no fixed address was arrested on 23 July. He was remanded to custody and appeared before Liverpool Magistrates’ Court today, Saturday 25 July. He was further remanded and is due to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 24 August. Gordon is charged in relation to an acid attack on a 38-year-old man on Milton Street in St Helens on 14 April 2019. He is also charged with conspiring to commit further acid attacks o…

Two people, one of whom is British, have been convicted and jailed in France as a result of close working between the UK-French authorities in people smuggling investigation involving the National Crime Agency. The pair were arrested in the early hours of 27 June as they prepared to leave the French port of Cherbourg in a small vessel, as part of an operation which was led by the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) working with the NCA, Border Force and the French authorities. Five Albanian migrants were found on board. The boat had sailed to France from the Isle of Wight two days earlier. On 2 July 2020 at a court in Cherbourg, boat skipper Joshua Van…

A former campaign manager for the Conservative Party has admitted online child sexual abuse offences, after a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. Today, (24 June) Mark Lerigo, 49, of Coventry, pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to distributing indecent images of children (IIOC), three counts of making IIOC, one count of possessing extreme pornography involving animals, one count of possessing prohibited images of children and one count of publishing an obscene article. NCA officers arrested Lerigo in November 2018. As well as the images, investigators found a WhatsApp chat with another offender discussing the sexual abuse of children. Lerigo had an iPad …

A convicted drug smuggler who went on the run after absconding from prison has now been jailed for a total of 16 and a half years. Daniel Dobbs, 31, was convicted of trafficking heroin and amphetamines and sentenced to 13 and a half years’ imprisonment in January 2014, following a National Crime Agency investigation. On 2 November 2018, Dobbs, from Malton in North Yorkshire and known as “Dobbo” to his friends, was found to be missing from his prison cell in South Yorkshire. The NCA subsequently issued a wanted appeal for information on his whereabouts. Last year, the NCA identified him as living in Spain under a false name and on 11 February 2020, after co-operation…