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Police officers have been spying on drivers using the phones at the wheel while sat on the top deck of double decker buses. https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/25/police-spy-on-drivers-from-double-decker-buses-to-catch-people-on-their-phones-7978668/amp/ Clever idea - good view point from a bus. But what's your thoughts on asking the public to submit videos of people using their phones? Is this a good idea? Is it workable?
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Return to News 26 September 2018 A Derby man has been jailed in France for heading up a criminal network that smuggled hundreds of migrants into the UK. Rekawt Kayani, aged 36, was arrested by National Crime Agency officers at his home address in the Normanton area of Derby in May 2016, as part of a joint operation being run with the French police. He was involved in numerous smuggling runs including one in June 2015 when 68 migrants from Afghanistan, China and Vietnam were found inside four lorries at the Harwich International Port. Investigators also found Kayani orchestrated runs from Dieppe to Newhaven, and in January 2016 seven migrants were found cra…
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Police seized more than 70kg of cocaine and £100,000 in cash stashed in shoeboxes in a raid in east London. The drugs haul, with a street value of £3.5 million, was found when officers from the Met’s Violent Crime Taskforce swooped on an address in Romford last night. Detectives also recovered a loaded handgun. Three men aged 24, 27 and 53, and two women aged 25 and 53, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply cocaine, possession of criminal property and possession of a firearm and ammunition. Today all were being questioned at east London police stations. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/five-held-after-police-seize-35m-cocaine-in-…
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'Paedophile hunter' evidence used to charge 150 suspects 10 April 2018 Image caption Decoys spend hours conversing with individuals on messaging apps, with transcripts then printed off and handed to police as evidence Evidence from so-called paedophile hunter groups was used to charge suspects at least 150 times last year, a BBC investigation has fou…
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Return to News 25 September 2018 A Dutch pilot who smuggled millions of pounds-worth of cocaine into the UK in a light aircraft has been ordered to pay more than £400,000 at a confiscation hearing. John Buwalda, 54, was jailed for 23 years in December 2016 following an investigation by the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). Six months previously, Buwalda flew a private plane into Rochester Airfield carrying suitcases packed with 22kg of class A drugs with a street value of £2.4 million. He was arrested at the adjacent Holiday Inn Hotel after handing the cocaine over to a courier, Jan Polak, 63, from Poland…
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A LEADING Scottish retailer has partnered with Police Scotland as part of an initiative to help keep communities safe – by encouraging employees to become special constables. https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/help-in-store-from-scotmid-s-special-constables-1-4803567/ Should there be more of this? More companies willing to let staff have time off to train and perform duties for policing and other services (TA etc)?
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Labour conference: deselecting MPs to be made easier 23 September 2018 Related TopicsLabour Party Conference Image copyright PA Image caption Labour's annual conference is taking place in Liverpo…
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A senior officer with the Met Police faces the sack after he was accused of racism for using the phrase 'whiter than white'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6168389/Police-officer-faces-racism-probe-using-term-whiter-white.html
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Home News Harrow drug dealer jailed for nine years after 12 kilos of cocaine found in his car Return to News A drug dealer found with 12 kilos of cocaine with a street value of £1.2 million has been jailed for nine years today (Friday 21 September) at the Old Bailey. Stuart Reid, 31 from Harrow was arrested by the joint National Crime Agency and Met Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). On 1 August this year, Reid, from Grange Roa…
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Return to News Seven members of an organised crime group who tried to use small boats and a jet ski to smuggle migrants across the English channel have been jailed for a total of 48 years and three months. Six of the men were found guilty in August following a nine week trial at the Old Bailey. A seventh man had already admitted the charges. A lengthy investigation into the group’s activity, led by the National Crime Agency, focused on two separate criminal networks working together, one Albanian and one from Kent. It was carried out with the support of the French National Police, Immigration Enforcement, Kent Police and Border Force. National Crime Agency i…
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Return to News A 38 year old man who manufactured and supplied counterfeit identity documents on a national scale has been jailed for over five years. Ukrainian national Sergiy Mykhaylov was arrested in June 2018 by National Crime Agency surveillance officers outside his workplace in Queen’s Yard, Hackney. Mykhaylov used his home in Stratford as a forgery factory set up with computers and printers capable of producing tens of thousands of documents. He ran an online business through which he received orders and would post the forged documents to customers all over the UK. In total, officers recovered over 3,000 completed identity documents, 3,500 passport sty…
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Return to News 20 September 2018 A London-based nurse who was jailed for trafficking Nigerian women into Europe where they were forced into sex work has had her sentence increased to 18 years. Josephine Iyamu, 52, became the first British national to be convicted under the Modern Slavery Act for offences committed overseas at Birmingham Crown Court on 28 June 2018. The conviction followed a lengthy investigation undertaken by the National Crime Agency, working in co-operation with German police. She was arrested by NCA officers after landing at Heathrow airport on a flight from Lagos on 24 August 2017. Iyamu was originally jailed for 14 years but, followin…
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Home News Wanted people smuggling suspect arrested in Birmingham Return to News 19 September 2018 A man wanted in connection with an alleged people smuggling network shipping migrants across the English Channel in lorries has been arrested by the National Crime Agency. British national Saman Sdiq, 33, was arrested at his home address in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham on Monday 17 September. He is wanted by the authorities in Antw…
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Police have launched a £2 million unit to plan for a hard-Brexit amid warnings that it will be harder to protect the public after Britain leaves the EU. Senior officers say investigators will lose access to 40 crime fighting tools, including the European Arrest Warrant, which would hinder cross-border investigations such as the hunt for the Russian intelligence officers suspected of the Salisbury Novichok attack. The warning came from the National Police Chiefs Council chairwoman Sara Thornton, who said fall-back options would be slower and less effective. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/2m-police-unit-set-up-to-protect-brits-after-brexit-a393894…
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Return to News Gholamreza Pourmirzaei, aged 46, from Manchester, was stopped by Border Force officers at Stansted Airport on 21 November 2016 after flying to the UK from Turkey. An x-ray revealed the Class A drug was hidden in the lining at the bottom of his suitcase. On the same day NCA officers searched Pourmirzaei’s home in Kippax Street, Manchester, and seized £3,965 cash. The NCA investigation revealed that Pourmirzaei had travelled to Turkey and Iran on 31 occasions in 2016. Following a six day trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, Pourmirzaei was found guilty yesterday (17 September) of being knowingly concerned in the importation of controlled drugs. NC…
