UK Policing News

Thugs vandalised five memorials across central London with white paint in the space of just hours, police revealed today. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/memorial-for-murdered-police-officer-yvonne-fletcher-among-five-vandalised-with-white-paint-a4046006.html Scum the person or persons who are doing this hope police get the person or persons soon.

The leader of Westminster council has claimed police officers bought themselves a McDonald’s rather than intervene when street drinkers threatened her with violence. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/westminster-council-leader-nickie-aiken-claims-police-left-her-to-go-to-mcdonalds-when-she-was-a4048686.html

That's alright then. But of course you are. How many times have we heard that over the years? Your own boss was against stop and search! Link

More than 60 people have been arrested in a major operation to clamp down on drugs flowing out of London with "county lines" drug gangs. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/more-than-60-people-arrested-in-major-operation-to-clamp-down-on-london-county-lines-drugs-gangs-a4047511.html

Police IT system 'pushed us to the edge' (Officers played by actors) A police IT system is "unfit for purpose" and causing some criminals to escape justice, officers have told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. Nine forces in England and Wales use Athena, which promised to speed up the detection of crimes. But officers say it regularly crashes and is overly complicated, meaning some cases are not built in time or dropped. Developers Northgate Public Services apologised for problems "in small areas", which it says it is fixing. A joint response from the nine police forces said Athena - which has cost £35m over the past 10 years - had been …

Image caption The 17-year-old suspect is in custody after being held on suspicion of attempted murder A teenager has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a 16-year-old boy in West Norwood, south London. The victim was taken to hospital with "critical injuries" after being shot near Unity Close at about 22:15 GMT on Tuesday. Detectives say the boy's condition is now described as stable. The suspect, 17, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and is in a south London police station. Witnesses told the BBC they had heard three gunshots before police arrived. The boy's aunt, who was at the hospital Tuesday night, told the BB…

Police are investigating a series of carjackings in Greenwich in which a man posing as a plain clothes police officer pulled drivers over with blue flashing lights before making off with their car. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-hunt-carjacker-posing-as-police-in-greenwich-a4046976.html

Image copyright Google Image caption The 21-year-old woman was struck by the car in Forest Road, Walthamstow A woman has died after she was hit by a police car responding to an emergency call in east London. The 21-year-old pedestrian was struck by the marked vehicle on Forest Road, Walthamstow, at 23:45 GMT on Tuesday. Paramedics and London's air ambulance were called but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The car had been responding to a call about a man threatening members of the public, the Met said. Police are trying to trace the woman's family. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46970831