UK Policing News

A 44-year-old man who is wanted in connection with a National Crime Agency investigation into large scale drug supply has been arrested attempting to leave the country. The Liverpool resident was detained by Border Force officers in Cheriton as he tried to leave the UK for Spain via the Channel Tunnel on Saturday 13 June. Officers searching his vehicle recovered £19,000 of suspected criminal cash. He remains in custody and is being questioned by NCA officers. Martin Matthews, Operations Manager at the National Crime Agency, said: "This arrest shows how closely aligned we are with our Border Force colleagues in our efforts to monitor the UK border. "This man i…

An exchange in which a police officer accused a black woman of "jumping on the bandwagon" was "clumsy", a deputy chief constable said. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-suffolk-52998661

An ex hero Merseyside Police officer made a despicable pact with organised criminals and sold secret intelligence to gangsters for years – leading to armed raids and a stabbing. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/corrupt-merseyside-police-officer-sold-18409619.amp

A man who attempted to smuggle an array of illegal weapons into the UK has been jailed for 21 months. 53-year-old Kamber Ramadani from Bermondsey in east London told National Crime Agency investigators that he planned to sell the flick knives, butterfly knives and other weapons in his shop on the Old Kent Road. He’d been stopped by Border Force officers carrying out checks on incoming traffic at Dover docks on 12 February 2019, initially telling them he’d been out of the country visiting Croatia and Kosovo. During a search of his Mercedes officers found 28 different bladed weapons in the boot, and a starter pistol and ammunition in the footwell. In interview Ramada…

A Turkish lorry driver has been jailed today for smuggling over £12 million of criminal cash out of the country over a five month period. Nasuf Nasufoglu, 40, from Istanbul, was targeted as part of an investigation by the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership. Nasufoglu was arrested on 27 September 2019 at the Port of Dover, where UK Border Force officers found six packages of cash hidden in fridge panels in his lorry totaling £264,050. He was also in possession of £1,200 and 900 euros - his payment for acting as a courier - plus eight mobile phones and multiple SIM cards. Phone evidence showed OCP officers that Nasufoglu …

Two black men were chased through a city centre and pelted with bottles by an angry crowd in shocking social media footage. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/crowd-hurls-bottles-two-black-22171709.amp?__twitter_impression=true

Police have been cleared of wrongdoing over an arrest - despite viral video footage showing an officer hit a man repeatedly over the head. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/west-midlands-police-officers-cleared-18396137.amp

A married woman who sexually abused a child and sent the images of it to her lover has been jailed for nine years, after a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. NCA officers arrested businesswoman Katie Weeks, 36, and Gareth Southcombe, 42, both of Poole, Dorset, in May 2018. Southcombe, who owns a boating company, had the abuse photos on his mobile phone, and his desktop computer also contained 14 category A (the most severe) indecent images of children (IIOC), 14 category B, 15 category C and 35 extreme images. Weeks, an illustrator and designer who produced gift cards, sent Southcombe the images in July and August 2017. His mobile phone showed that he had ch…

A deputy head teacher of a primary school has been charged with online child sexual abuse offences after a National Crime Agency investigation. Richard Swinnerton, 30, of Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough, was charged with three counts of possession of illegal images of children relating to category A (the most severe), category B and category C. The defendant – who has resigned from his job at St Clare’s Catholic Primary School in Middlesbrough – will appear at Teesside Magistrates' Court on 10 July 2020. The charges relate to online child sexual abuse imagery. Officers have found no evidence to suggest that any of the images were made at the school and there is no alleg…

Five men have been arrested and around £30,000 cash seized as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into the smuggling of migrants into the UK. The five, a 29-year-old Albanian and four Afghan nationals all aged between 39 and 43, were detained by NCA officers on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration in the Notting Hill area of West London on the evening of Saturday 6 June. Two Afghan women, aged 65 and 26, who investigators suspect had recently arrived in the UK in the back of a lorry, were also detained and were later handed to Immigration Enforcement for assessment. NCA officers carried out searches of three cars linked to the group as well as two…