UK Policing News

This morning (Thursday 3 July 2025), Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has authorised a section 60 authority in the outlined area of the city centre. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/july/section-60-authority-in-place-following-a-double-stabbing-in-the-city-centre-overnight/ powers to stop and search sounds good to me 👍 in keeping the streets safe.

A 19-year-old drug dealer has been sentenced to 30 months in a young offenders’ institution after being found in the possession of a large quantity of Class A drugs in Wellingborough. https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/news/in-court/2025/july/east-london-drug-dealer-jailed-for-more-than-two-years/ Good result with arresting the drug dealer 👏 and off the streets, but the sentence given was to low should have got a longer sentence for dealing.😠

Detectives from Cheshire Police have arrested four people in the Midlands in connection to a high value burglary series across the UK. https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2025/7/cheshire-police-arrest-four-people-in-the-midlands-in-relation-to-million-pound-burglary-series/ Good work by police in bringing this gang to justice.👏

A wanted people smuggler has been tracked down and arrested in Coventry by the National Crime Agency. https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/fugitive-people-smuggler-detained-in-nca-operation Good work by the NCA by bringing the people smuggler to now face justice.👏

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vddwrl63qo The Metropolitan Police is to roll out a device that makes it easier to see and photograph bruises on victims of violence, amid efforts to prosecute more violent offenders.

Two people were arrested following a stop search in Everton yesterday, Sunday 29 June. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/june-2025/two-arrests-in-liverpool-following-drugs-discovery-after-stop-search/ Good work b the officers and removing two drug dealers off the streets.👏

We’ve charged a man with a firearms offence after a gun was fired at a house in Oldbury last week. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/july/man-charged-after-firearms-incident-in-oldbury/ Good arrest by WMP and now charged with possession of a shotgun with intent to cause fear of violence.👏

Nearly 300 cyclists have received fixed penalty notices for going through red lights so far this year, over 10 times the number of motorists clocked for the same offence. https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2025/july/city-police-launch-summer-prevention-campaign-to-keep-the-streets-safer/ About time they clamped down the City of London Police to prevent phone snatching and and anti-social cyclists👍

A taxi driver who was part of a people smuggling network has been ordered to pay back almost £100,000 in proceeds of crime, or face jail. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/kent-taxi-driver-told-to-hand-over-100k-he-made-from-people-smuggling All wrong he was given a 20-month jail term, suspended for two years for people smuggling should have been given jail time😠 and then make him pay back the £100k .

A man has been jailed for conspiring to sell cocaine and heroin. https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/july/operation-skybridge-drug-dealer-after-officers-carry-out-stop-and-search/ Good work by the officers who spotted Mattu selling drugs from his car before carrying out a stop and search and now removed drugs from his home and removed him from the streets.👏

Tony Drewitt (18/06/1948) of Hazon Way, Epsom, Surrey was jailed for 12 months at Manchester Crown Square Court. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/july/man-jailed-for-non-recent-child-sex-offences-in-oldham/ Good work by the GMP bringing him to justice 👏 but don,t agree with the low sentence of only 12 months with two counts of sexual activity with a child.😠

A haul of 20 firearms, 320 rounds of ammunition and 170kg of ketamine were recovered from a vehicle at Dover Port. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/firearms-and-drugs-worth-millions-discovered-in-lorry-at-dover-port Good work by Border Force colleagues, an arsenal of deadly firearms, as well as harmful drugs, have been seized before they could reach the criminal supply chain.👏

We have charged two people with drugs offences following warrants in Wythenshawe by our City of Manchester South Challenger team. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/june/two-people-charged-with-drug-offences-after-south-manchester-warrant/ Good work by the GMP with arresting the two drug dealers and now face justice.👏

Stockport’s latest town centre policing operation saw 1,000 illegal vapes seized. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/june/illegal-vapes-worth-8000-seized-during-neighbourhood-policing-operation-in-stockport/ Good work by Trading Standards including high-visibility patrols and plain clothes officers arresting people in possession of a large quantity of meat and razor blades and drugs.👏

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/26/met-officers-committed-gross-misconduct-in-strip-searching-black-girl-at-school Two police officers who were involved in the strip-search of a black teenager at her school have been dismissed after they were found to have committed gross misconduct. 'While the officers involved did not act correctly, we acknowledge there were organisational failings. Training to our officers around strip-search and the type of search carried out on Child Q was inadequate, and our oversight of the power was also s…