UK Policing News

Four men are in custody and several weapons have been recovered after an armed robbery in Birmingham. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/december/four-arrested-and-weapons-seized-in-birmingham/ Good work by WMP in bringing the robbers to justice and weapons seized.👏

Three men have been charged with multiple offences as part of officers' efforts to disrupt drug supply in the Sharrow area of Sheffield. https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/news/south-yorkshire/news/news/december-2025/three-charged-with-drug-offences-after-sheffield-investigation/ Good arrest by officers and removing drug dealers and drugs from the streets.👏

A woman has been jailed for 21 years and six months after National Crime Agency officers found £8.5m worth of heroin in her back bedroom. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/21-years-and-six-months-behind-bars-for-woman-with-85kg-of-pakistani-heroin-in-her-bedroom Good sentence given putting a drug dealer behind bars and drugs removed from getting onto the streets.👏

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62dv1l0jelo Police leaders are set to recommend scrapping non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) in a review to be published next month. Completely agree. I'm of the view that something is either a crime or it isn't. If it isn't a crime, then should the police really be getting involved? If that thing is such a problem then make it illegal and then it's more straightforward to deal with. I think having this half way ground where you both want the police to deal with something in some way, but without it actually being legislated against, causes all sorts of problems.

A man has been jailed for a series of street robberies on men in Manchester city centre. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/december/a-man-has-been-jailed-for-after-a-series-of-violent-street-robberies/ What he done to the victim who was punched from behind to the floor. This caused his jaw to break into two pieces and suffered a fracture to his skull and a laceration to the back of his head the thug should have been given a longer sentence.

Officers dedicated to Programme Challenger – Greater Manchester’s partnership response to serious and organised crime – are embedded in every district and work tirelessly to disrupt and dismantle criminal networks involved in drug trafficking, exploitation, firearms offences, and money laundering. Programme Challenger: Wigan dismantles amphetamine lab, Rochdale uncovers illegal con…

A man has been arrested in Birmingham as part of a joint National Crime Agency and West Midlands Police investigation into the advertising of people smuggling services on social media. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/arrest-made-in-people-smuggling-adverts-investigation Good work by NCA who was arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration.👍

All four tyres on a police car were slashed as the officers rescued teenagers from a tractor crash. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-car-s-tyres-slashed-while-officers-saved-teenagers-from-crash/ar-AA1SQ2Fd?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=694a493658194e5fab52438bd32cdb8b&ei=12 What a lowlife scum who did this hope they find who did this and put the person before the court😠 and well done the officers who saved teenagers from crash.👏

Two men have been arrested after drugs worth approximately £10million were recovered in Glasgow. https://www.scotland.police.uk/what-s-happening/news/2025/10million-worth-of-drugs-recovered-glasgow/ Good work by police in bringing drug dealers to justice and stop drugs flooding the streets.👏

Two men have been jailed following an extensive investigation into the million-pound theft series of multiple Porsches across Greater Manchester. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/december/two-men-jailed-following-investigation-into-series-of-porsche-thefts-valued-up-to-1-million/ Good work by the GMP in bringing them to justice and both now behind bars.👏

Four police staff members have been dismissed and added to the policing barred list as part of our Anti-Corruption Unit’s proactive investigation into abnormal key stroke behaviour – or ‘key jamming’ – on GMP-issued devices. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/december/update-regarding-acu-investigation-into-abnormal-key-stroke-behaviour/ Not good when you get staff behaving like this when working for the GMP/😠

A group of men are facing significant prison terms after a teenage girl was raped and sexually exploited during an horrific ordeal. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/december/group-convicted-after-teenage-girl-raped-and-assaulted/ Hope the court do dish out a significant prison terms to the four men behind bars where they belong.👍

A man has today (Friday 19 December) been sentenced for a vicious attack on a police officer in Shropshire, which left him with a fractured eye socket. https://www.westmercia.police.uk/news/west-mercia/news/2025/december/man-sentenced-for-assaulting-police-officer2/ Disgusting sentence given to what this man done to this officer should have been given longer and PC Harper suffered a fractured left eye socket during the attack, which fortunately did not require surgery as first thought.

We’ve charged three people from Wolverhampton as part of an investigation into nearly 30 raids on cash machines across the country by a gang which stole more than £300,000. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/december/three-charged-following-cash-machine-raids/ Good work by WMP in bringing this gang to justice .👏

Beasley, 33, of Cottingley Drive in Beeston, was jailed at Leeds Crown Court yesterday (Thursday) after he was found guilty of six counts of rape, three counts of child cruelty and one count of controlling and coercive behaviour. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/man-given-extended-sentence-rape-offences Good sentence given He was sentenced to 24 years,👍