UK Policing News

A police medical examiner drove to deal with a fatal crash after an afternoon of drinking. https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/police-medical-examiner-turns-up-3305301

A police officer has been seriously injured after being run over by a suspected car thief in Birmingham. Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/birmingham-police-officer-run-over-car-thief-murder-west-midlands-police-latest-a9051601.html

A retired police inspector has been convicted of making indecent images of children following a National Crime Agency investigation. 6 September 2019 David Mortimer, 58, was convicted on 5 September 2019 following a four day trial at Kingston Crown Court. He had been arrested by NCA officers at his home in Barnet, London, on 4 July 2018. Officers seized his laptop which contained a 30-minute long Category A (the most serious) sexual abuse video of a south east Asian girl. Analysis of the laptop showed file-sharing software had been used to download titles indicative of child abuse during February 20 and February 21 2018. Movie file names recovered from the deleted…

A man who hid a handgun with a silencer under his garden hot tub has been jailed following a National Crime Agency investigation. 6 September 2019 Dean Kirby, 31, from Manchester, who has now been convicted for the third time in 13 years for firearms offences, was sentenced to eight years and four months for possessing a firearm and other crimes including burglary and theft of a car. NCA officers working with Greater Manchester Police executed a warrant on the morning of Saturday 21 October 2017 at Kirby’s home in Pinnington Lane, Stretford.

 Following the search of the back garden, officers found a blue plastic bag underneath the decking area of the hot tub.

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A man who was found with 60 firearms in his car has admitted gun smuggling, after a National Crime Agency investigation. 6 September 2019 Irish national Robert Keogh, 37, was stopped at 5am on Friday 2 August this year by Border Force officers at the Port of Dover en route from Calais. Keogh left the UK through Dover several days earlier. He told officers he was returning from Europe and had “just been driving around”. An initial search of his car, a Volkswagen Passat, recovered a Turkish manufactured Zoraki blank firing handgun, with its barrel converted to fire live ammunition. The gun was concealed in the car’s rear-left quarter panel. The NCA adopted the inve…

Ellias Nimoh Preko who laundered millions of dollars for the former Governor of Delta State in Nigeria has been hit with a £7.3 million confiscation order. 06 September 2019 Investment banker Ellias Nimoh Preko who laundered millions of dollars for James Ibori - the former Governor of Delta State in Nigeria – has been hit with a £7.3 million confiscation order. The National Crime Agency financial investigation into 60-year-old Preko began after he was convicted of money laundering in December 2013 for handling funds plundered from Delta State by Ibori. He was sentenced to four and a half years. At Southwark Crown Court earlier this week, the judge ordered Preko to p…

A corrupt agency worker at the Port of Tilbury has been jailed for 14 years and five months after pleading guilty to assisting offenders to import or supply cocaine. 5 September 2019 Michael Fowler, 60, from Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, was arrested by National Crime Agency officers following an investigation into a number of drug importations which went through the port between January and July 2015. Fowler pleaded guilty on the third day of his trial and was sentenced yesterday (Wednesday) at Isleworth Crown Court. Four consignments were intercepted by NCA, Border Force and the police, leading to the recovery of more than three-quarters of a tonne of cocaine with an …

The men now await extradition to Slovakia 5 September 2019 Two men suspected of planning to kidnap and murder a female relative after she left the UK and renounced Islam have been arrested following an operation by the National Crime Agency. Mohammed Patman, 54, and Darya Khan Safi, 49, both originally from Afghanistan, were detained by officers from the NCA's Armed Operations Unit (AOU) at their respective homes in London and Coventry on Wednesday 4 September.

 The pair were wanted by the Slovakian authorities for conspiring to murder the 25-year-old woman, who was living in Austria and working in Slovakia at a company she ran with her husband.

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A “two strikes and you’re in” law under which anyone convicted twice of assaulting police is jailed automatically should be considered by MPs to stem rising violence against officers, the Met Commissioner said today. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/mets-top-cop-calls-for-two-strikes-and-youre-in-law-where-thugs-convicted-twice-of-assaulting-a4225036.html

An international investigation has resulted in the largest ever seizure of heroin in the UK, denying vast sums of money to organised crime groups. 4 September 2019 Nearly 1.3 tonnes of the class A drug were recovered from a container ship, the MV Gibraltar, after it docked at the port of Felixstowe on 30 August. National Crime Agency intelligence had ascertained that the heroin would be on the vessel when it docked in the UK en route to Antwerp. The record haul would be worth around £27 million to organised criminals at wholesale, and in excess of £120 million at street level, where it is typically supplied via county lines dealing. The ship arrived on 30th August,…

The NCA has seized £472,740 from convicted money launderer, Kashaf Ali Khan under the Proceeds of Crime Act. 03 September 2019 The National Crime Agency (NCA) has seized £472,740 from convicted money launderer, Kashaf Ali Khan under the Proceeds of Crime Act. The confiscation order was granted in 2018, after Khan, 44, bought a £412,000 house with money he claimed had been won with 123 prize-winning tickets in the Pakistan lottery. Khan made the purchase in his elderly father’s name, but it was actually Kashaf Khan who was the real purchaser of the property. The National Crime Agency employed an expert statistician who said it was as likely as winning the UK National…