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5 July 2019 Ex-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson has been found in contempt of court for his Facebook Live broadcast of defendants in a criminal trial. High Court judges ruled his conduct "amounted to a serious interference with the administration of justice". This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest ver…
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A Irish national living near Tamworth has been found guilty of possessing a disguised firearm. 51-year-old Thomas Kavanagh was arrested at Birmingham Airport by officers from the National Crime Agency in January as part of a wider investigation into money laundering, drugs and firearms supply in the UK and Ireland. During a search of his home on Sutton Road, Mile Oak, a stun gun, disguised as a torch, was recovered. The weapon is illegal to own or possess in the UK. Kavanagh was charged with offences under Section 5 of the Firearms Act. On 11 July, following a two day trial at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court he was found guilty. He was bailed pending sentencing on 2 Sep…
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POLICE have been showing off a flashy £130,000 Batmobile-style car — but it won’t be fighting crime. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9473532/police-130k-eco-batmobile-bmw/ what a waste of money by the met instead of focusing on crime ☹️
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Four members of an organised crime group have been convicted of smuggling £1.2 million worth of heroin from Pakistan into the UK via the post. 10 July 2019 A total of 13 packages were seized at three UK airports containing a total of five kilos of high-purity heroin concealed within boxing gloves, equine dentistry tools, medical instruments, and motorcycle gloves. The NCA began investigating Sultan Mahmood Butt, aged 37, Nibeel Saghir, aged 34, Rizwan Ahmed, aged 34, who are all relatives from Pakistan now living in the UK, and Denise Ellis, aged 46, from Birmingham, after Border Force officers at Stansted Airport seized almost three kilos of heroin in June 2015 hidd…
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More than 200 police carried out dawn raids on suspected drug dealers accused of fuelling violence that has claimed young lives in London. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/more-than-200-police-carry-out-london-dawn-raids-on-suspected-drug-dealers-a4186576.html and hope many more raids like this to come 👍
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-manchester-48885996 I am not sure on what plant this individual was on when he challenged the Deputy Chief Constable? There really does appear to be a very high concentration of ‘gammons’ in Cheshire whom are still lingering about the policing space and expressing a view on things. At least this one has been unceremoniously put in his place.
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Shocking footage shows a drug-driver speeding through Derby during a 112mph police chase. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7226089/Drug-driver-hits-112mph-speeds-away-police-cocaine-fuelled-joyride-Derby.html
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A former police sergeant, dubbed Robocop for his arrest record, has left the force due to mental health issues. Ali Livingstone had made 5,000 arrests in 15 years and said he would arrest up to 700 people in a single year during his career with Suffolk Police. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-48880273
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A police officer who ran a Twitter account posting "totally unacceptable" tweets about people in custody has kept her job. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-48857151
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A man has admitted 49 charges including sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl and possessing nearly 250,000 indecent images of children. Konstantinos Hrisos, 63, admitted the raft of charges when he appeared at Newcastle Crown Court. National Crime Agency (NCA) officers arrested Hrisos, of Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne, in September last year after discovering he had been downloading indecent images of children (IIOC). Officers searched his home and recovered electronic devices which contained 246,829 abuse images – including 1,040 Category A (the most severe) images and videos, and a further 23,527 prohibited images. Among Hrisos’s sick collection of images were ‘up…
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5 July 2019 Image copyright West Midlands Police Image caption Top L-R: Ignacy Brzezinski, Jan Sadowski, Julianna Chodakowicz, Justyna Parczewska. Bottom L-R: Marek Brzezinski, Natalia Zmuda, Wojciech Nowakowski, Marek Chowaniec Members of a g…
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Report's findings echo our own calls 4 July 2019 Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has published its 2018 State of Policing Report. This is our response. An NCA spokesperson said: "We are supportive of the report’s findings. They echo our own calls for reform of law enforcement at local, regional & national levels and increased investment to match public expectations. “Our ability to confront the rapidly evolving serious and organised crime threat is undermined by a fragmented and inefficient system. “Demand on law enforcement is high and increasing. There are increases in prevalence, complexity and harm across cr…
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These are the horrifying scenes in which a female officer has chunks of her hair torn out by a vicious thug. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/watch-thug-rip-out-female-16515743.amp
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Four out of five people identified as suspects by controversial facial recognition technology used at Scotland Yard were innocent, a damning new report has found. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/facial-recognition-used-by-scotland-yard-wrong-in-four-out-of-five-cases-damning-report-warns-a4181986.html
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A police firearms officer suffered a broken ankle in a scuffle with a crook while trying to help his girlfriend - but the thug who left him partly disabled has walked free from court. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/thug-who-broke-police-firearms-16498808
