UK Policing News

Marvyn Thomas (28/03/1987), of Belmont Street Old Trafford, has today (16 March 2026) been sentenced to thirteen-and-a-half-years in jail following a two-week trial at Manchester Crown Court. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/march/thirteen-and-a-half-years-sentencing-for-trafford-man-after-rape-and-assault-conviction/ Good work by GMP in bringing this vile man to justice with a nice long sentence from the court.👏

A detective has told how she was left traumatised after Police Scotland shared the contents of her phone with a colleague she alleged raped her. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8g9e812z3o All wrong that data - including intimate images and medical records - extracted from her phone was given to the accused officer this should not have happened and Police Scotland has now been fined £66,000 for there blunder.

A convicted murderer and two accomplices staged an elaborate scheme to help criminal associates escape big prison sentences for international drug trafficking. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/murderer-led-scheme-from-behind-bars-to-help-drug-traffickers-walk-free Good work by NCA in bringing the drug dealers trying to smuggle 448kg of MDMA worth £45m to Australia in the arm of an industrial digger to justice.👏

Members of a Blackpool drug-supply gang have been given custodial sentences totalling more than 63 years. https://news.lancashire.police.uk/news/2026/march/blackpool-drugs-gang-sentenced-to-more-than-60-years-imprisonment/ Good work by police in removing the drug gang from the streets and all behind bars.👏

Four men from the Pontefract area have been charged with drug offences after officers executed search warrants at addresses in the town earlier this week. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/four-charged-drug-supply-offences-pontefract Good arrest by WYP in arresting drug dealers👏 and charged and were remanded into custody but again A woman aged in her 30s who was also arrested on Monday has been released on bail and should have been remanded as well🤨

Throughout the week of action, various policing activities took place alongside partners across all our Greater Manchester districts. Officers conducted a total of 30 warrants, resulting in 40 arrests across Greater Manchester, with 20 active drugs lines closed down. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/march/gmp-makes-40-arrests-closes-20-drug-lines-and-seizes-class-a-and-b-drugs-during-county-lines-intensification-week/ Great work by GMP in clamping down on drug gangs with arrests for cannabis with an estimated value of between £402,600 and £1,006,500 and County Lines gangs.👏

A mother and son who plotted to smuggle 14 kilos of cocaine into the UK have been jailed, following a National Crime Agency investigation. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/mother-and-son-sentenced-after-attempting-to-smuggle-14-kilos-of-cocaine Good work by BF stopping drugs getting into the UK👏 but the sentence given to the drug dealers should have been 10 years but the judge only sentenced them to seven years and seven years and six months respectively for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the UK for profit.😡

A Slovakian national with a firearms fixation has been jailed for possessing a gun and manufacturing live ammunition following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/gun-obsessed-doomsday-prepper-caught-with-firearm-and-ammunition Good arrest by the NCA👏 for possessing a gun and manufacturing live ammunition and removed a lethal firearm from criminal circulation,and given and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment 👏

An investigation by detectives into an organised crime group has disrupted the supply of crack cocaine and heroin in Dorset. https://news.dorset.police.uk/news-article/565c380a-ed1d-f111-9d90-6045bdd24049 Good work by the Serious Organised Crime Investigation Team in bring down the drug dealers and put a stop to them selling drugs and put behind bars.👏

A Sussex Police officer will appear in court charged with non-recent sexual offences against two girls. https://www.sussex.police.uk/news/sussex/news/news/sussex-police-officer-charged-with-non-recent-sexual-offences/ How was this not picked by vetting officers that allowed him to join the police ?

Thomas Hallisey (14/07/77), of no fixed abode, has been charged with seven counts of fraud by false representation and one count of theft in a dwelling. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/march/man-charged-with-multiple-counts-of-fraud-after-series-of-rogue-trader-offences-in-rochdale/ People like him who commit fraud deserve to face justice t stopping ripping people off.👍

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr2exyvyxpo The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has said he understands why some women still do not trust the force, in an interview to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of Sarah Everard. I think that trust in the police has gone dropped quite a bit in the last few years, but is still high overall compared with other countries. I did see one officer point out that Lucy Letby killed more people than Wayne Couzens, so why isn't there a similar lack of trust for the nursing profession? I think it's because nursing is cooperative, the nurse and the patient are on the same side, she's acting in your best interes…

A woman has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison today (Wednesday 11 March 2026) after pleading guilty to making false rape allegations about several men from across Greater Manchester. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/march/woman-who-falsely-accused-ten-men-of-raping-her-is-jailed/ Good the woman has been jailed for perverting the course of justice and wasting police by falsely saying she was raped.🤨

Two men have been jailed after another man was chased after and shot in Birmingham city centre. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2026/march/men-given-lengthy-jail-sentences-after-man-chased-and-shot-in-birmingham/ Good work by WMP in bring the gunman to justice and put behind bars for 27 years and 22 years👏

https://news.sky.com/story/al-quds-march-banned-in-london-due-to-severe-risks-13518015 A pro-Iran march planned in London this weekend has been banned.