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The PSNI has defended an International Women’s Day event at which they asked female officers to nominate “male colleagues who have supported them during their career”. https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/psni-international-womens-day-male-17881624

LUTON'S town centre has been evacuated after a suspicious device was discovered in a car. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1251694/luton-news-bomb-car-terror-explosives-dunstable-road-Bedfordshire-police

Two men have been charged after a National Crime Agency investigation identified firearms being brought into the UK through the fast parcel system. Officers arrested Dashan Caines, 44, from Sutton Coldfield, and Keston Joseph, 31, from Coventry, on Thursday (5 March). Both men were charged with conspiracy to supply firearms into the UK. The NCA investigation started after Border Force officers seized firearms and ammunition at a parcel hub in the Midlands on 24 January. A package from Florida, supposedly containing car parts, was opened to reveal an electronic safe. Two semi-automatic pistols and hollow-point bullets were concealed inside. Joseph was previously ar…

A seafood salesman has been sentenced after smuggling an estimated 5.3 million critically endangered baby European eels to East Asia via the UK. Gilbert Khoo, aged 67, from Parbury Rise, Chessington, received a two-year suspended sentence today at Southwark Crown Court for six offences relating to the illegal importation and movement of the rare elvers. Specialist Border Force officers found the European ‘glass eels’, known as Anguilla Anguilla, concealed under a load of chilled fish at Heathrow Airport. They were due to be exported to Hong Kong on 15 February 2017. It was the first such seizure ever recorded in the UK. The live consignment, weighing around 200 kilos…

The NECC, in conjunction with the FCO and the DfID, has published an alert on the illicit finance risks associated with South Sudan. The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), in conjunction with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development, has published an alert on the illicit finance risks associated with South Sudan. It highlights the red flags that members of the regulated sector and others should be aware of when seeking to do business in South Sudan or with South Sudanese entities. Graeme Biggar, NECC Director General said: “Corrupt actors and criminal groups are known to exploit the UK regulated sector. They do so to lau…

Four men have been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a crime group suspected of transporting migrants from the continent into the UK in the back of lorries. The arrests followed the discovery of 10 migrants in a lorry carrying a load of tyres near Ghent in Belgium on Thursday 5 March. The migrants, believed to be two adults and eight juveniles, are thought to be from south east Asia. The Belgian authorities were acting on information from the NCA, and arrested the driver of the vehicle, a 64-year-old man from Glasgow. NCA officers then arrested three further men, two in Dover, Irish nationals aged 39 and 48, on suspicion of facilitating i…

A car tradesman who was caught trying to smuggle £1.1 million worth of cocaine into the UK has been jailed for nine years. Abdullah Iqbal, aged 33, from Liverpool, was today (Tuesday 3 March) found guilty of importing a class A drug following a trial at Canterbury Crown Court. The National Crime Agency (NCA) began investigating Iqbal when Border Force officers stopped his vehicle at the UK Control Zone at Coquelles, France, on 11th September 2017. During a search officers noticed an anomaly with the front and rear bumpers of the car. On removing the rear light fittings, they found a makeshift box area containing silver taped packages. In total 14 packages where foun…

The alleged ringleader of a cocaine trafficking group that expected to bank more than £1 million every month has been arrested in Spain after more than six years on the run. Dominic McInally, 29, from Formby, Merseyside, was arrested when officers from the Spanish National Police raided the Casa Masa strip club, near Marbella, in the early hours of 28 February. McInally was a subject of Operation Captura, which targets fugitives suspected to be hiding out among the UK national community in parts of Spain. Jointly run by the NCA, Crimestoppers UK and Spanish authorities, Operation Captura has now resulted in 85 subjects being apprehended since 2006. Just ten remain at…

More than 60 firearms have been stopped from reaching the streets of Scotland in just over a year, thanks to the work of a joint team of National Crime Agency and Police Scotland investigators. Since December 2018 the Organised Crime Partnership (Scotland) have been working with Border Force to disrupt the flow of illegal guns, seizing 61 weapons. Many were being imported using the fast parcel and postal systems. The team have also arrested 49 individuals involved in serious and organised crime, and been involved in the seizure of almost 64 kilos of drugs worth around £2.5 million street value. The OCP(S) was formed in late 2018, bringing together officers from the N…

29 February 2020 Top Home Office civil servant Sir Philip Rutnam resigns, and intends to sue government for constructive dismissal This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the la…

Priti Patel demanded police chiefs slash crimeand deliver safer streets in exchange for more officers today as she said neither she nor the public would accept any 'excuses'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8046391/No-excuses-Priti-Patel-tells-police-cut-crime-exchange-20-000-officers.html#article-8046391 Does Patel not realise that the 20,000 are not extra officers but simply replacing the 20,000 lost to cuts which were made by her own Government?