UK Policing News

A senior police official on £140,000-a-year is suing home secretary Priti Patel in a discrimination row – claiming he is paid less than a black female colleague because he is a white man. https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2020/03/13/white-police-official-sues-discrimination-paid-less-black-woman-12392566/amp/

Two men jailed for smuggling 95 firearms into the UK 13 March 2020 Two men who conspired to import 95 lethal handguns into the UK have been jailed for a total of 45 years, following an investigation by the joint NCA and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). Denis Kolencukov, 26, was arrested on 1 July 2017 after 79 handguns and thousands of rounds of ammunition were seized by Border Force officers based at Coqeulles, France, following information supplied by the OCP. The weapons were hidden in specially adapted concealments in engine blocks on the trailer of a van which was en route to the UK. The driver, a Polish courier, had collected the engine…

Two men jailed for smuggling 95 firearms into the UK 13 March 2020 Two men who conspired to import 95 lethal handguns into the UK have been jailed for a total of 35 years, following an investigation by the joint NCA and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). Denis Kolencukov, 26, was arrested on 1 July 2017 after 79 handguns and thousands of rounds of ammunition were seized by Border Force officers based at Coqeulles, France, following information supplied by the OCP. The weapons were hidden in specially adapted concealments in engine blocks on the trailer of a van which was en route to the UK. The driver, a Polish courier, had collected the engine…

A major report into online child sexual abuse has backed National Crime Agency (NCA) demands for the tech industry to do more to protect children. The agency gave extensive evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s internet investigation which was held during 14 days in January 2018 and May 2019. Today, the inquiry has published its report which makes four recommendations. They are: 1) the government should require industry to pre-screen images before they can be uploaded; 2) that images should be removed as a matter of course; 3) the government should legislate to make tech firm’s implement stringent age verification, and 4) the government should…

Six men have been arrested in Slovakia on suspicion of being part of an organised crime group that supplied over 1500 lethal firearms to the European criminal market, including to the UK. NAKA (Slovak National Crime Agency) officers arrested the men in December 2019 and in doing so, shut down the criminal enterprise. The arrests were the result of an international operation supported by the UK National Crime Agency, Europol and five EU member states. The OCG converted Flobert firearms to larger calibre before selling them on to other criminals across Europe. Among those arrested was the owner of a Slovak weapon dealership. NCA investigators deployed to Slovakia a…

A man from Tamworth was today charged with drugs and firearms offences by officers from the National Crime Agency. Irish national Thomas Kavanagh, 52, of Sutton Road, Mile Oak, was arrested as part of an NCA investigation in January 2019. Kavanagh is alleged to have conspired with others to import class A drugs, class B drugs and firearms over a period of more than two years between June 2015 and October 2017. He also faces an additional charge of money laundering. He will appear at Ipswich Magistrates Court on Thursday 19 March. Two other Irish nationals Gary Vickery, 37, from Tamworth, and Daniel Canning, 41, from Walkinstown, Dublin, have already been charged by …

Nine people suspected of being part of an organised crime group responsible for importing at least two tonnes of cocaine have been arrested following a National Crime Agency operation. Officers raided addresses in the Feltham, Bromley and Peckham areas of Greater London, and a house in Derby, early this morning (10 March). In addition to several digital devices, items including a drugs press, and quantities of heroin and cocaine were seized. With the assistance of HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), one suspect was produced from prison, where he is serving a sentence for unrelated matters. The six men and three woman arrested include UK, Ghanaian, Iranian and A…

A police officer has been arrested over suspected ties to a banned right-wing terrorist group. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/counter-terrorism-met-police-officer-arrested-right-wing-a4379856.html Words fail me with officer being stupid with a group of terrorist 😞