UK Policing News

Suspected members of an organised crime group in Merseyside have been arrested as part of a drug trafficking conspiracy. Five men, aged between 35 and 48, and a woman aged 35, were arrested in raids on Thursday 18 June, in the Wirral and Wallasey, and Deeside, by officers from the National Crime Agency, with support from Merseyside Police. All five men were apprehended on suspicion of conspiracy to import controlled drugs, conspiracy to launder money, and participating in the activities of an organised crime group. The woman was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to import controlled drugs and money laundering. All remain in custody for questioning and the 48-year-ol…

A part-time DJ jailed for making and selling some of the worst child sexual abuse images NCA investigators have ever seen has had his prison sentence increased to four years. Haitch Macklin, 38, sold access to his horrendous catalogue to other offenders via an encrypted messaging app from his home in Higher Broughton, Salford, Greater Manchester. His collection included sexual torture videos of babies and toddlers and Macklin spoke of his desire to acquire ‘snuff’ films showing real-life murders. He also told another offender that he wanted to murder someone and film it. He admitted three counts of making indecent images of children (IIOC) and two of showing it at M…

"Putting that uniform on for the first time, I remember catching my reflection. There I was, 19 years old, an actual police officer. With my own uniform, my force identification number on my left shoulder, I felt a lot of pride. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/381ddbb1-e493-4875-86da-4fa4368ef839

National Crime Agency officers working as part of Operation Stovewood have arrested five men as part of an investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of two teenage girls in Rotherham. On Tuesday 16 June officers arrested two men in their 20s in Derby and Bradford on suspicion of rape. They were questioned by NCA investigators and released under investigation. Today, 18 June, officers made a further three arrests, two in the Rotherham area and one in Sheffield. All three are men in their 30s, and they are now being questioned on suspicion of sexual activity with a child under the age of 16. Philip Marshall, senior investigating officer for Operation Stovewood, said…

The day before federal police officers gassed peaceful protesters to make way for a President Donald Trump photo op, Geoff Perrin posted a picture on Instagram of officers bearing riot shields and squaring off with a group of demonstrators. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/richholmes/british-cop-training-police-riot-control-credentials

A man and a woman have been charged after a sawn-off shotgun was recovered as part of an investigation by the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). Nicola Tomlinson, 32, was arrested on Friday 12 June as OCP officers conducting surveillance on Kensal Road, West London, moved in to stop the taxi she was travelling in. A sawn-off shotgun was recovered from the back of the car along with five shotgun cartridges and Tomlinson was found to be in possession of what was believed to be cocaine. Her partner, Peter O’Donnell, 36, was arrested shortly after as he attempted to leave his flat on Chesterton Road in a separ…