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The Metropolitan Police is considering whether to pause its use of facial recognition cameras because so many Londoners are wearing face masks. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-considers-pausing-the-rollout-of-facial-recognition-a4440396.html
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Police have arrested 70 suspected organised criminals in a month by using number plate recognition in a bid to identify offenders. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/number-plate-cameras-help-capture-70-suspects-in-london-a4440301.html
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Up to 1,000 of London’s most prolific violent offenders are to be targeted by the Met in a drive to reduce stabbings and other violence in the capital. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/lamborghini-seized-in-met-crackdown-on-violent-crime-a4439381.html
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A father and son have been charged as part of a joint National Crime Agency and Police Scotland investigation into the large-scale importation of the new psychoactive substance kratom. The pair, aged 60 and 38, were arrested as officers from the Organised Crime Partnership executed two warrants in the Bathgate area of West Lothian on Tuesday 12 May. The arrests followed two seizures of kratom made by Border Force, one of 52 kilos at Edinburgh Airport on 15 April, and another of 102 kilos at East Midlands Airport on 6 May. Kratom is a controlled substance under the New Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, traditionally grown in south-east Asia and used as a stimulant w…
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THIS is the dramatic moment cops Taser a man in front of his screaming child at a petrol station. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11578755/man-tasered-cops-child-petrol-station/ No time for people who are not having vehicle insurance, one count of being unfit to drive through drink.
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Dorset Police constable Timothy Brehmer, 41, has been charged with murder following the death of a woman who was found injured at a car park in West Parley, the force said. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8309135/amp/Police-constable-41-charged-murder-woman-died.html?__twitter_impression=true
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Boris Johnson speech: PM unveils 'conditional plan' to reopen society 10 May 2020 Related TopicsCoronavirus pandemic Image copyright Andrew Parsons / 10 Downing Stre Boris Johnson has unveiled a "conditional plan" to reopen society, allowing people in E…
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PC Shaun King spotted a family of seven's car on fire as he made his way home from a night shift https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11587734/cop-car-fire-woke-family/ Well done that officer 👍
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Two men have been charged after a firearm, cash and 3 kilos of cocaine were seized at a property in Hornsey as part of an investigation by the joint NCA and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). OCP officers raided the flat on Hornsey High Street on Thursday 7 May where they discovered approximately £25,000 in cash, two kilos of cocaine and 24 rounds of ammunition stashed in various kitchen cupboards. Officers also recovered a notebook which they suspect is a ledger for drug dealing.The firearm, a .32 calibre pistol, was found in the wardrobe of one of the bedrooms. Another kilo of cocaine was hidden behind the toilet panel in the en suite bathroom. O…
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/03/i-was-a-boy-who-wanted-nothing-so-much-as-to-join-the-police Interesting story from an ex-GMP & Metropolitan police officer, who joined in the early 2000s as a young officer, having wanted to for years, as a black and homosexual man and then discovering some racist opposition.
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Heartless thieves have stolen 80,000 face masks from a Manchester warehouse which were meant to be used by NHS and frontline workers fighting coronavirus. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/coronavirus-face-masks-stolen-nhs-staff-a4435371.html
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A number of police officers have been injured after responding to reports that men were "acting suspiciously" in Finsbury Park. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/finsbury-park-incident-police-street-fight-a4435466.html
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A GROUP of yobs taunted a cop by taking his bike after he caught them playing cricket during the coronavirus lockdown. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11559491/yobs-taunt-cop-bike-lockdown/
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A DOZEN carefree cops have been slammed for breaking coronavirus social-distancing rules by sinking coffee and bacon butties together in a car park. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11564799/coronavirus-metropolitan-police-social-distancing/🙄
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Police are hunting "utterly deplorable" burglars who stole laptops from a Derbyshire hospital and ripped televisions off walls. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/royal-derby-hospital-burglary-derbyshire-police-a4433946.html Hope they find the scumbags who did this.😠
