UK Policing News

Two men have been charged with allegedly breaking into the London Container Terminal in Tilbury to retrieve packages of drugs. National Crime Agency investigators were called in on Tuesday 5 May after port workers spotted suspicious activity and reported it to port police. Two men were later arrested by Border Force officers, who recovered around 16 kilos of cocaine from a refrigerated container which had arrived from Belize on 1 May. The drugs would likely have had a potential street value in excess of £1 million. After being interviewed by NCA officers, Albanian nationals Mariglen Bajraktari, aged 20 and Romario Vukzaj, aged 23,both of no fixed abode, were charged…

The National Crime Agency has partnered with Cyber Security Challenge UK to give students free access to their online platform ‘CyberLand’ over the coming months. CyberLand is a virtual city which provides gamified modules teaching 12-18 year-olds the fundamentals of cyber security, such as firewall configuration and digital forensics. The 16 interactive exercises, which are designed around the concept of protecting CyberLand from a cyber-attack, are now free to access until the end of September 2020. Jim Stokley, Deputy Director of the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit, said: “Many young people have a keen interest in technology and have developed impressive cyber sk…

A driver who was caught trying to sneak nearly £300,000 criminal cash out of the UK just four hours after arriving into the country has been jailed. Mariusz Dorozynski, 33, from Zlotoryja in Poland, was initially bailed following his arrest for money laundering in June 2016, but he failed to return to be charged after being summonsed by post in November 2018. This led to National Crime Agency investigators applying for a European Arrest Warrant, and Dorozynski was apprehended in Poland and extradited back to the UK in October 2019. On Friday 1 May he was sentenced to two years at in a video-link hearing done via Maidstone Crown Court after admitting money laundering …

Police officers are putting videos of themselves singing and dancing online despite being warned that it sends the wrong message as Britain battles the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8281037/amp/Police-chief-warns-officers-stop-prancing-TikTok-videos-coronavirus-pandemic.html

A RANDY driver performed a sex act while cruising along the M6 — with police saying “his pleasure was short-lived”. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11523312/cops-motorist-solo-sex-act-m6-motorway/

A Brazilian national who attempted to smuggle three kilos of high purity cocaine with an estimated street value of £350,000 in the lining of his suitcase has been jailed. Unemployed Valdir Medeiros Da Silva, 48, from Deramore Drive, Portadown was given a seven and a half year sentence today (Monday 27 April) at Belfast Crown Court following a National Crime Agency investigation. He will serve the first half in prison and the second half on licence. NCA officers were first alerted on 23 December 2018 when Da Silva was stopped by Border Force at Belfast City Airport after arriving on a flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil via London Heathrow. A search of his luggage led to th…

Three men have been arrested and cocaine with a potential street value of around £3 million has been seized as part of an National Crime Agency investigation into drugs supply. NCA investigators, supported by Border Force officers, recovered 36 kilos of cocaine from what is believed to be a purpose built hide in a lorry that had travelled on a ferry from France into Dover at around 10pm last night (23 April). The lorry driver, a 50-year-old man from Magheralin in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to import class A drugs. Shortly afterwards NCA officers arrested a second man in Kent for the same offence. The 56-year-old from King…

British police may cause more deaths by Tasering people unless action is taken, a coroner has warned. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-taser-deaths-uk-marc-cole-cornwall-coroner-a9477026.html%3famp