UK Policing News

https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2025/8/cheshire-police-using-selectadna-to-help-call-full-time-on-disorder-at-football-matches/ Cheshire Constabulary is set to become the first police force in the UK to equip officers with DNA Tagging Spray at all League two matches.

Stockport neighbourhood officers have uncovered a cannabis farm worth £87,000 following a warrant at a property in Brinnington. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/august/local-officers-bust-drug-den-in-brinnington/ Good work by the GMP in finding and dismantling a large operation a cannabis farm 👏

Sadiq Khan breaks huge election promise as another 18 London police front desks close The Metropolitan Police said the move would save £7 million and 3,752 hours of police officer time a month. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2092184/sadiq-khan-closes-london-police-stations-election-promise This is all wrong what Khan wants to do closing London,s police front desks with the way crime is around khan has done nothing and needs to go and give them the money to keep them open🤬🤬

An electronic tracker on a stolen e-bike led officers to the discovery of four in a back garden in Everton on Wednesday (6 August). https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/august-2025/four-stolen-electric-bikes-found-after-tracker-leads-officers-to-haul/ Enquiries are ongoing to locate a suspect and bring and disrupt those who steal them and use them to commit crime👍

Seven members of a notorious London gang have been sentenced to a total of 116 years for conspiring a gun plot to try and shoot rival rapper. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14975351/Rapper-London-gun-plot-Digga-D.html Good work by the MET in bringing down this gang and received a good sentence and streets a bit safer from firearms and drugs👏

The operation follows seven high-value burglaries, where it is alleged the defendants targeted shops in the Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea areas of central London. https://news.met.police.uk/news/five-men-have-been-charged-as-part-of-an-ongoing-investigation-by-the-mets-flying-squad-499815 Good work by the Met’s Flying Squad 👏

A Birmingham man’s been jailed after attacking a man in Sparkbrook, and going on to assault two of our officers. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/august/man-jailed-for-attacking-a-man-and-injuring-two-officers-in-sparkbrook/ A decent given for assaulting the arresting officers and sentence was jailed for nine years at Birmingham Crown Court, and told he will spend a further four years on licence after that.👍

A man has been jailed for 14 years following the discovery of £11m worth of class A drugs hidden in an air compressor. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/drugs-smuggler-jailed-for-14-years-after-failed-11m-class-a-plot Good work by the NCA in bringing this drug dealer to justice and a decent sentence given.👏

A man who ran a drugs line from prison, and the 14 people who worked for him have today been jailed for a total of more than 103 years , following an investigation into the supply of class A drugs in Blackpool. https://news.lancashire.police.uk/news/2025/august/gang-who-ran-drugs-line-from-prison-for-more-than-103-years/ Nice work by officers in bringing down this drug dealing gang and bringing them to justice.👏

A murder investigation is underway following a fatal shooting in Stoke Newington. https://news.met.police.uk/news/murder-investigation-launched-in-stoke-newington-499780 Hackney was a nice place at one time but now has become gang related with drug gangs and now we have shooting .🤬

A corrupt airport security manager who helped cocaine smugglers try to bring drugs into the UK has been jailed for 16-and-a-half years, following a National Crime Agency investigation. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2091009/heathrow-airport-security-guard-jailed Good work by the NCA in bringing down this corrupt airport security manager and stop drugs getting onto the street and has been jailed for 16-and-a-half years.👏

Two men who made firearms and ammunition to sell to criminals have been jailed. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/august/two-men-jailed-for-making-firearms-to-be-sold/ Good work by the WMP in getting this pair off the streets and removed guns and drugs before they got in the hands of criminals .👏

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14971123/Woman-arrest-Police-Facebook-post-mens-red-flag-behaviour.html A woman was arrested at dawn by police at her door after she wrote a Facebook post about her ex-boyfriend, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, in a group which warned of men's behaviour. Hoping there is more to this, because on the surface the way the police have acted looks quite bad.

Police investigating non-recent reports of child sexual abuse in Bradford have arrested ten men as part of an arrest operation. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/arrests-over-non-recent-child-sexual-abuse-offences-bradford Good work by WYP bringing people to justice over Child Sexual Abuse Offences👍