UK Policing News

Police have pledged to give those carrying drugs ‘paws for thought’ after deploying canine detectives to Dewsbury and Huddersfield in increased high visibility operations in Kirklees. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/canine-detectives-deployed-sniff-out-drug-crime-kirklees-operations Good work by WYP in helping to catch people using or selling drugs and anti-social behaviour.👏

A protest outside a migrant hotel erupted into violence after anti-immigration campaigners clashed with 'anti-racism' demonstrators. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14906435/Protest-Epping-migrant-hotel-violence-crowds-clash.html I feel sorry for the officers who have to deal with this and the way things are going there will be more disruption like this to come .🤔

An investigation by the Met Police has led to the conviction of six people in connection with a fatal shooting in west London. https://news.met.police.uk/news/six-found-guilty-of-murder-of-janayo-lucima-499446 Good work by the MET in bringing the six men to justice over organised execution’ linked to a dispute over drugs and drug dealers now off the streets.👏

Two men have been jailed for a combined 15 years after shots were fired in a supermarket in Hall Green. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/july/two-jailed-after-shots-fired-in-birmingham-supermarket/ Good work by the WMP with the arrest and the men jailed and taking firearms off the streets .👏

Two men were sentenced to a combined total of more than 20 years for their roles in the kidnap and assault. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/july/two-men-jailed-after-kidnapping-and-assaulting-an-87-year-old-man-in-oldham/ Good work by the GMP bringing the two men to justice for kidnapping and assaulting an 87-year-old man 👏

Children were grabbed by parents and dragged to safety as two rival gangs brandishing machetes and a handgun brought violence to the streets of a seaside town, a court heard today. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14907665/Rival-London-gangs-terror-seaside-town-machetes-handgun-jailed-total-34-years-footage-reveals-chaos.html The sentences are a joke and i blame the court for handing out soft sentences to thugs 🤬who carry machetes and handgun on our towns.

We launched a nationwide search after a placenta was found in the couple's burnt-out car by the motorway near Bolton on January 5, 2023. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/july/retired-gmp-officer-explains-his-key-role-in-launching-the-search-for-constance-marten-and-mark-gordon/ Good work by police in bringing this pair to justice for manslaughter by gross negligence. At an earlier trial last year, Gordon, 51, and Marten, 38, were convicted of child cruelty, concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice .👏

The results are in and our Guardian Taskforce have been busy keeping our streets safe from drugs, weapons and serious youth violence https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/july/guardian-taskforce-work-continues-to-keep-streets-safe-from-drugs-weapons-and-serious-youth-violence/ Good work by WMP in bringing back some law and order to the streets.👏

https://news.sky.com/story/former-met-police-commissioner-lord-ian-blair-has-died-sky-news-understands-13395532 Former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Ian Blair has died aged 72.

Eight people have been handed jail sentences totalling almost 80 years following two separate National Crime Agency investigations into their activities in operating and staffing cannabis farms. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/sentences-totalling-almost-80-years-handed-out-as-two-migrant-cannabis-farm-gangs-are-jailed-following-major-nca-investigations Good work by the NCA bring down the gang and shutting down the cannabis farms👏

A team of officers from Solihull Local Policing Area have been keeping up the pressure on illegal and anti-social off-road bikes. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/july/officers-from-solihull-celebrate-seizing-more-than-100-off-road-bikes/ Good work by the WMP by seizing more than 100 off-road bikes that are a menace from young kids of today.👏

Oliver Wade, 37, abused the victim throughout the 1990s and 2000s. https://www.beds.police.uk/news/bedfordshire/news/2025/07-july/a-man-who-sexually-assaulted-a-child-over-a-10-year-span-has-been-jailed/ Good result for the police getting justice for this person and seeing this man locked up.👍

Palestine Action has now been proscribed by the UK Government and expressing support for them is a criminal offence in the UK. https://news.met.police.uk/news/update-on-policing-in-london-following-proscription-of-palestine-action-499157 again more disruption in London 😠

Thames Valley Police is appealing for the public’s help in tracing three prison absconders. https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-valley/news/2025/june/23-06-25/appeal-to-trace-prison-absconders--hmp-springhill-aylesbury/ Not good for the prison service when 3 escape from prison 😠

Two serving Met police officers have been dismissed without notice for making homophobic, racist and sexualised comments to colleagues. https://news.met.police.uk/news/conclusion-of-misconduct-hearing-for-two-pcs-499095 Words fail me when act as stupid as this and now dismissed from the police service.☹️