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Two travellers who led a 100-strong mob on a £300,000 wrecking spree at an historic brewery have been jailed for a total of eight years. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6731155/Travellers-wrecked-historic-brewery-100-strong-mob-jailed-total-eight-years.html Police response to the incident https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-5850281/ROBERT-HARDMAN-did-police-stop-travellers-destroying-historic-brewery.html One thing that struck me about this incident is how powerless the police are to stop this kind of incident if a mob is in big numbers like it was in this incident. By all accounts police officers did not intervene despite witnessi…
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A man and a woman in their 70s have died after a van being chased by police crashed into their car in southeast London. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/pensioners-die-after-van-in-police-chase-crashes-into-their-car/ar-BBTYkh8?ocid=spartandhp
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Return to News 22 February 2019 The National Crime Agency has obtained a Recovery Order by consent over a Carrickfergus property under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). The investigation, carried out by officers working as part of the Paramilitary Crime Task Force (PCTF), related to the home of an alleged senior member of the paramilitary group South East Antrim UDA (SE UDA) in Carrickfergus. The NCA alleged that the property was originally acquired using the proceeds of mortgage fraud, tax evasion and money laundering, before being placed into his wife’s name. Following the commencement of proceedings in the High Court in Belfast, the Defendants…
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Home News NCA seizes property linked to paramilitary group Return to News 22 February 2019 The National Crime Agency has obtained a Recovery Order by consent over a Carrickfergus property under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). The investigation, carried out by officers working as part of the Paramilitary Crime Task Force (PCTF), related to the home of an alleged senior member of the paramilitary group South East Antrim UDA (SE …
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A suspected armed robber who targeted a bank next to a children's playground in broad daylight is being hunted by police. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-hunt-gunman-who-stole-cash-from-barclays-bank-in-london-a4073186.html
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Three people have been rushed to hospital after a car overturned in a crash following a police chase in north London. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/stamford-hill-crash-three-rushed-to-hospital-after-car-overturns-in-smash-following-police-chase-a4073541.html
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A national memorial has been unveiled in London today as a tribute to a police officer who was killed during the Westminster terror attack. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/memorial-unveiled-to-honour-pc-keith-palmer-killed-in-westminster-terror-attack-a4072286.html
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Six people have been charged after police officers were assaulted at a pro-Brexit “Yellow Vest” protest in central London, Scotland Yard said. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/yellow-vest-protest-london-six-charged-after-police-officers-hurt-at-demo-in-central-london-a4068991.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6711747/Police-officer-tracked-14-year-old-girls-address-using-social-media-raped-her.html What was he thinking, MDP must be desperate for the story to disappear.
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A Scottish police force has been mercilessly mocked after stopping a football supporters’ bus and confiscating fans’ alcohol. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/scottish-police-force-mercilessly-mocked-for-stopping-football-supporters-bus-and-confiscating-fans-a4069031.html
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A police constable has been issued with a written warning after sitting in a train carriage that his ticket did not permit. http://news.met.police.uk/news/police-constable-issued-with-written-warning-359013
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Police officers swooped on Leicester Square during this morning's rush hour amid reports of an armed man. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-swoop-on-armed-man-in-leicester-square-during-rush-hour-a4070321.html
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Image caption The victim had been stabbed multiple times before he entered the hotel in Euston Street Eleven people have been arrested after a man was stabbed several times in the street in London and collapsed and died in a hotel reception. The victim entered the Wesley Hotel on Euston Street, near London's Euston Station, at about 22:45 GMT on Monday. The man was helped by hotel staff, who contacted the emergency services but died shortly after at 23:30. Police said the 11 people held had all been arrested on suspicion of murder and are currently in custody. Image copyright PA Image caption Residents were evacuated from the hotel foll…
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Return to News A prolific money launderer who processed more than £6m has been convicted after a National Crime Agency investigation. Kazeem Akinwale, 43, was caught after Christie’s auction house reported an attempted diversion fraud. In March 2016 they informed the NCA that hackers had spoofed an employee’s email address, trying to divert the payment for a customer invoice into a new bank account. Christie’s realised what had happened, did not pay the money and reported the hack which initiated the investigation into Akinwale. NCA officers established that access to the intended beneficiary account was being made from the internet address at Akinwale’s ho…
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Police smashed through the door of an east London gallery after mistaking an artist’s mannequin for a body. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/police-smash-their-way-into-art-gallery-after-thinking-mannequin-is-a-corpse-a4069526.html
