UK Policing News

This is the dramatic moment police corner a man who tried to rape a lone woman in a front garden in west London. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/moment-wouldbe-rapist-is-snared-by-police-captured-in-dramatic-bodycam-footage-a3520096.html

Police have hit back at a national newspaper after it pictured a group of officers having a cup of tea at a Devon seaside cafe. This morning the Sun newspaper ran a story which stated that eight uniformed police officers stopped for a 45 minute break while on shift for a cuppa and a bacon sarnie at a cafe on the promenade at Plymouth Hoe http://www.devonlive.com/police-shame-the-sun-as-officers-pictured-drinking-tea-at-seaside-cafe-in-devon/story-30271556-detail/story.html

Police arrested 12 people as thousands gathered in Hyde Park to mark the capital’s annual demonstration calling for the drug to be decriminalised. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hyde-park-420-protest-thousands-gather-for-the-annual-procannabis-demonstration-in-central-london-a3519646.html

London gun owners are asking questions of the Metropolitan Police after the force seemingly handed the addresses of 30,000 firearm and shotgun owners to a direct mail marketing agency for a commercial firm's advertising campaign. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/19/met_police_30000_gun_owner_data_breach/

Footage of a row between a London cyclist and a Met Police officer over riding in the middle of the road has sparked a fierce debate online over who was in the right. Full Story - Evening Standard

Love Activists move campaign to new Wirral location http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/love-activists-move-campaign-new-12909844#ICID=Android_EchoNewsApp_AppShare How is possible to break into a building and then for it to be a civil dispute...Surly there are offences like abstract electricity that can be used to arrest the person's inside? Sent from my Moto G (4) using the Police Community App

The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) has said a violent incident in Glasgow raised questions about whether officers can protect the public. SPF chairwoman Andrea MacDonald said it was "deeply worrying" that no armed officers were dispatched. The attacker in Thursday's incident injured two people before inflicting fatal injuries on himself. Police Scotland has insisted that the incident did not require the presence of armed officers. One of the victims of the attack was reported to be in a stable condition in hospital with injuries to his shoulder and arm. The other victim, a community warden, was allowed home after treatment. Ms MacDonald sai…

A dedicated police squad has been set up to protect hospital staff from violent patients amid rising Accident & Emergency chaos http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/17/police-squad-deployed-protect-nhs-staff-attacks/

London gun owners are asking questions of the Metropolitan Police after the force seemingly handed the addresses of 30,000 firearm and shotgun owners to a direct mail marketing agency for a commercial firm's advertising campaign. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/19/met_police_30000_gun_owner_data_breach/

A dedicated police squad has been set up to protect hospital staff from violent patients amid rising Accident & Emergency chaos http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/17/police-squad-deployed-protect-nhs-staff-attacks/

London gun owners are asking questions of the Metropolitan Police after the force seemingly handed the addresses of 30,000 firearm and shotgun owners to a direct mail marketing agency for a commercial firm's advertising campaign. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/19/met_police_30000_gun_owner_data_breach/

London gun owners are asking questions of the Metropolitan Police after the force seemingly handed the addresses of 30,000 firearm and shotgun owners to a direct mail marketing agency for a commercial firm's advertising campaign. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/19/met_police_30000_gun_owner_data_breach/

A police officer has been injured in an explosion after emergency services were called to a home in Finsbury Park. Dozens of firefighters are battling a blaze in Stapleton Hall Road after a “disturbance” involving bailiffs just before midday. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-injured-as-huge-fire-breaks-out-after-explosion-at-north-london-home-a3518246.html

The officer had been making inquiries following complaints about travellers in the area... but couldn't resist a go when he spotted the empty playpark https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3344570/fun-loving-policeman-takes-break-from-job-to-have-a-go-on-a-zipline-as-he-larks-about-in-kids-playground/ Must be a slow news day...

A female Metropolitan Police officer has been struck off after taking cocaine. PC Toni Harris, from Barking and Dagenham police, underwent a random drugs test in December 2015 which came back positive for the Class A drug. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/female-police-officer-struck-off-after-taking-cocaine-a3513446.html