UK Policing News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwo More live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be rolled out across seven police forces in England to locate suspects for crimes including sexual offences, violent assaults and homicides, the Home Office has announced. To be honest if there was a guarantee it would truly only ever be used in those types of offences, I wouldn't really object. There are other scenarios where I can't deny facial recognition would be a good thing. Imagine you have a high risk missing old person with dementia. There are facial recognition cameras covering nearly the entire city. Imagine being able to feed a picture of that missing person…

Officers have arrested a man on suspicion of drug supply and other offences following a warrant in Bromborough yesterday, Tuesday 12 August. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/august-2025/man-arrested-and-drugs-cash-and-suspected-stolen-bikes-seized-in-bromborough-warrant/ Good work by the officers who arrested the drug dealer on suspicion of Possession with intent to supply Class A and B drugs; Theft of a motor vehicle; Possession of an offensive weapon in a private place; and Possession of criminal property👏

A county lines drug dealer who supplied class A drugs between Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire has been ordered to pay back more than £94,000 in ill-gotten gains. https://www.cambs.police.uk/news/cambridgeshire/news/2025/august/drug-dealer-to-pay-back-more-than-90000-in-ill-gotten-gains/ A Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) hearing held at Peterborough Crown Court last month (30 July), ordered Bevilacqua to repay his currently held cash and assets worth £94,230.88 and instructed that he pay this amount within three months or face a further six months in prison, where he would still be required to repay the money.👏

Police have uncovered cannabis factories in Ramsey. https://www.cambs.police.uk/news/cambridgeshire/news/2025/august/400000-cannabis-factories-uncovered-in-ramsey/ Good find by police and shutting down the cannabis factories👏

Two men were detained by officers after they were spotted on an electric motorbike in Kirkby on Friday (8 August). https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/august-2025/two-arrested-after-electric-motorbike-rode-through-red-light-in-kirkby/ Good spot by the officers and arrested the men on suspicion of driving a motor vehicle dangerously, theft of a motor vehicle, using a motor vehicle without third party insurance, driving a motor vehicle otherwise than in accordance with a licence and failing to stop.👏

We can confirm that a man from Liverpool has been charged with 21 child sex offences. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/august-2025/liverpool-man-charged-with-multiple-child-sex-offences/ Good job he has been arrested and charged and hope he receives a long sentence👍

Two people were arrested yesterday (Sunday 10 August) following a drone sighting over HMP Long Lartin. https://www.westmercia.police.uk/news/west-mercia/news/2025/august/two-arrested-after-drone-spotted-over-prison/ Good stop and arrest by the officers and Two men, aged 25 and 28, were subsequently arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to convey prohibited items into a prison.👏

A serving Met officer has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman while on holiday in Romania. https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-officer-to-appear-at-court-charged-with-sexual-assault-499891 Not to clear in what happened but can,t comment till the court case and more comes to light.👍

Mitchell Rudkin, 51, previously of Maldon Road, Southend, was jailed for a total of five years when he appeared at Basildon Crown Court on Thursday 7 August. https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2025/august/southend-man-jailed-for-five-years-after-using-an-imitation-firearm-to-rob-a-woman/ Fake gun or not at least they tracked him down and was arrested and now he was given total of five years👏

Local Policing and Roads Crime officers conducting the latest Operation Lawmaker have undertaken a day of action and seized 15 electric and off-road vehicles being used throughout Chester. https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2025/8/15-vehicles-seized-during-chester-day-of-action/ Good clampdown by police in removing illegally converted pedal cycles that are used by disrupting known offenders.👍

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/armed-police-threatened-to-arrest-kent-protester-for-holding-palestinian-flag In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.” It infuriates me when I see officers lying to members of the public about what the law is. Palestine Action is a proscribed group yes, but nothing this woman was doing or saying gave any indication that she supports them. You can't just make the law up as you go along, or come up with wildly different interpretations of it ju…

A gang of thieves who stole nearly £700,000 in a series of raids on cash machines at banks and shops across the country are facing years behind bars today. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/august/they-havent-got-any-concrete-evidence-listen-to-cash-machine-raiders-whatsapp-boast-days-before-we-brought-down-his-700000-burglary-gang/ What a great result for the WMP for bringing down this gang and now facing justice.👏

Five years on from the creation of a joint unit involving officers from the National Crime Agency and France’s Police Nationale to target people smugglers, the unit has now been involved in more than 300 arrests. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/joint-uk-french-unit-behind-300-people-smuggling-arrests

Following a four-week trial in July this year, a man has been sentenced to 14 years – 11 of those in prison, of which he must serve two-thirds, with a further three on extended licence, at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday 7 August 2025. He is also subject to an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and restraining orders for all victims and their families. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/august/private-tutor-sentenced-to-14-years-for-sexual-assault-of-five-women-and-girls/ Good work by the GMP in bringing this man to justice.👏

A woman ‘obsessed with weapons’ has been jailed for eight years and six months after she tried to make a gun with a 3D printer at her home in Lincoln. https://www.lincs.police.uk/news/lincolnshire/news/20252/aug/woman-who-trid-to-make-gun-with-3d-printer-is-jailed/ For what this former police support officer woman has done used a 3D printer to try and make a semi-automatic weapon and an 'arsenal' of weapons was then discovered at her Lincoln home by officers now will serve eight years and six months.☹️