UK Policing News

"There's such a bad stereotype of black people joining the police - I want to break away from that." https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/newsbeat-51099169

A MASSIVE police operation involving a dozens of armoured police vehicles with helicopter support has left a man dead on a London high street, reports said this afternoon. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1236891/streatham-high-street-shooting-police-london-knife-crime-helicopter

A man has been charged after a National Crime Agency investigation into the discovery of two semi-automatic pistols in the fast parcel system. The firearms, along with a quantity of ammunition, were seized by Border Force officers at a parcel hub in the Midlands on 24 January as a result of joint working with the NCA. They had been imported into the UK from Florida. On Friday, following an armed surveillance operation, NCA officers arrested two men in Coventry with the assistance of West Midlands Police. Dion Curt Roberts, aged 31, from Meriden, Coventry, was charged yesterday with two offences of attempting to possess section 5 firearms and one offence of attempti…

A trial of Extinction Rebellion protesters has collapsed after what a judge described as an “abject failure” by the Crown Prosecution Service. https://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/trial-of-extinction-rebellion-protesters-collapses-after-abject-failure-by-cps-11364428279974

A van driver who repeatedly struck a police officer with a machete during a routine traffic stop has been found guilty of wounding with intent. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-51205548

NCA officers have made three arrests in Belfast and London as part of an investigation into money laundering linked to a cyber heist on a bank in Malta. National Crime Agency officers have made three arrests in Belfast and London as part of an investigation into money laundering linked to a cyber heist on a bank in Malta. In February 2019 a strain of malware was used to access systems and illegally remove funds of around 13m Euros from accounts holding bank funds. A number of accounts were used to receive those funds, one of them was in the UK and was held in Belfast. Around £800,000 was transferred. In the following hours a number of card payments and cash withdraw…

A man who ran a dark web business selling the lethal drug fentanyl to customers across the UK and worldwide has been jailed for nine years. Justas Bieksa, 34, from Tresham Green, Northampton, was sentenced today (Thursday 12 December) at Derby Crown Court after pleading guilty to supplying and importing class A and B drugs. Bieksa sold fentanyl, which is up to 100 times stronger than morphine, and its analogues carfentanyl and furanyl, which are around 10,000 times stronger. He also sold ethyl-hexedrone crystals, a Class B drug commonly known as Hexen. Bieksa traded under business name ‘UKchemSale’, and users, who were offered next day delivery, paid for the drugs u…

Thirty-eight people have been killed on smart motorways in the last five years, the government has told BBC Panorama. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51236375

Two men who hid £60 million worth of cocaine on a yacht travelling from South America to the UK have been jailed for a total of 33 years for drug smuggling, and had their assets restrained, after a National Crime Agency investigation. In August 2019, the NCA, working closely with the Spanish National Police, identified the SY Atrevido as carrying a large cocaine shipment. The Border Force cutter HMC Protector was dispatched to intercept the yacht, locating it approximately half a mile off the coast of Wales in the early hours of Tuesday 27 August 2019. British nationals, Gary Swift, 53, and Scott Kilgour, 41, both from Liverpool, were arrested on board. The vessel w…

On Saturday 25 January officers from the NCA’s Anti-Corruption Unit arrested a 40-year-old man at a location in Folkestone, on suspicion of supplying class A drugs and misconduct in a public office. The man, a serving Border Force officer, was questioned and later released on bail pending further enquiries. The NCA investigation, which was carried out in partnership with Border Force, involved the alleged supply of ecstasy tablets. View the full article