UK Policing News

Britain's biggest police force is to spend a staggering £5.2 million a year on employing 64 diversity staff, despite paring frontline services to the bone, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15227083/Met-Police-5million-year-woke-taskforce-mounted-officers.html Words fail me knowing how bad the MET has got with a woke police force.😠

A driver caught with ketamine worth £17m hidden inside kitchen worktops in his van has been jailed for five years and four months today. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/jailed-driver-caught-with-one-of-the-largest-hauls-of-ketamine Good stop by the NCA removing drugs from the streets and put a drug dealer behind bars.👏

Officers from Rochdale North Neighbourhood Team assisted Rochdale Borough Council executing several warrants in the Rochdale area early yesterday morning (Thursday 23 October) https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/october/over-300-cannabis-plants-seized-following-warrants-in-rochdale/ Good work by GMP in shutting down the cannabis farms and two arrested.👏

Thirteen people have been charged following a joint investigation between Merseyside Police and HM Prison and Probation Service Serious Organised Crime Unit into a conspiracy to smuggle drugs into prisons. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/october-2025/thirteen-people-charged-in-connection-with-conspiracy-to-smuggle-drugs-into-prisons/ Good to read the police have charged Those who are trying to be cleaver trying to smuggle drugs into prisons👍

Two men who supplied drugs in Brighton and Bognor have been sentenced. https://www.sussex.police.uk/news/sussex/news/court-results/men-jailed-for-operating-drugs-line-in-sussex/ Good work by the Officers from Sussex Police’s Community Investigation Team, working in partnership with the Metropolitan Police, and putting drug dealers behind bars.👍

Two people have been charged with drug supply offences following a joint investigation between Cheshire Police and the Operation Toxic team at Merseyside Police. https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2025/10/operation-toxic---two-charged-with-drug-supply-offences-in-joint-investigation/ Good arrest by police and removing drug dealers and drugs from the streets.👏

Anthony Nash has been sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple rapes of two children and an adult in Cardiff. https://www.south-wales.police.uk/news/south-wales/news/2025/october/life-imprisonment-for-multiple-rapes-of-two-children-and-an-adult-in-cardiff/ Good work by SWP in getting him behind bars for a very long time.👍

Nick Adderley, the former Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police, will appear in court next month charged with fraud and misconduct in a public office. https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/news/in-court/2025/october/cps-announce-former-chief-constable-nick-adderley-will-be-charged-with-fraud-and-misconduct-in-a-public-office/ After what he has said and done quite right he now faces justice for the lies he told.👍

Officers arrested 32 people and seized thousands of stolen items in the Metropolitan Police’s largest ever targeted crackdown on organised shoplifting gangs in London. https://news.met.police.uk/pressreleases/met-recovers-thousands-of-stolen-items-in-uks-largest-ever-crackdown-on-organised-shoplifting-gangs-3411426 Good crackdown by the MET in bringing down the shoplifting gangs and putting them before the courts.👏

Neighbourhood officers have been busy in Birmingham, reuniting stolen vehicles with their owners, and offering advice on keeping safe. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/october/recovering-stolen-vehicles-and-offering-advice-to-residents-in-birmingham/ Good work by WMP with the arrests now face justice for there crimes and reuniting stolen vehicles with their owners.👏

We have seized a large amount of suspected Class A drugs, cash and two machetes in Anfield and arrested four men on suspicion of drugs and weapons offences. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/october-2025/operation-evolve-four-arrested-and-machetes-cash-and-large-amount-of-suspected-drugs-seized-in-anfield/ Good work by officers with arresting the four drug dealers and found drugs machetes.👏

A man who ran one of the country’s biggest drug trafficking networks has been jailed following a major and complex investigation by our Serious Organised Crime Division. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/october/ocg-drug-kingpin-and-associates-jailed-for-18-years-after-detectives-bring-down-criminal-empire/ Great work by the Serious Organised Crime Division by bringing down this drug gang now behind bars.👏

A proactive deployment in Rochdale yesterday (Sunday 19 October 2025) resulted in four arrests, the recovery of eight weapons, and the seizure of drugs and cash following targeted patrols and intelligence-led interventions. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/october/proactive-operation-in-rochdale-leads-to-multiple-arrests-and-weapons-seizures/ Good work by the officers with four arrests, the recovery of eight weapons, and the seizure of drugs and cash from drug dealers.👏

Detectives have charged a man with nine offences following a domestic incident in Sefton. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/october-2025/man-charged-with-nine-offences-following-domestic-incident-in-sefton/ remanded into custody people like him need locking up👍

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-69028844 Metropolitan Police officer Perry Lathwood has been found guilty of assault after he wrongfully arrested a woman for bus fare evasion. BWV of the incident available here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-69029449 Does the officer initially telling the woman she is detained, and only telling her she was under arrest after he's restrained her, render the use of force unlawful? If he had used the word arrest from the start would he still have been guilty?