UK Policing News

Officers disrupting the supply of drugs and county lines across Merseyside have charged five people following a series of warrants. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/five-charged-after-warrants-targeting-drug-supply/ Great work by officers in clamping down and arresting drug dealers.👏

Officers investigating the supply of illegal drugs in Crewe have charged a man in relation to the offence. https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2025/5/man-charged-in-relation-to-supplying-class-a--b-drugs-in-crewe/ Good work by the officers with arresting and getting a drug dealer off the streets.👏

Two people have been arrested and £4 million worth of cigarettes have been seized following a police investigation into theft of plant machinery. https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2025/5/cheshire-constabularys-rural-crime-team-find-4-million-worth-of-cigarettes-while-investigating-plant-machinery-theft/ Good work by the HMRC officers police to recover the cigarettes with the arrest while investigating plant machinery theft👏

Gospel Ugorji (09/09/2001) of Tootal Road, Salford, has been charged with assault with intent to resist arrest, possession of a bladed article in a public place and possession of cannabis. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/may/man-charged-after-assaulting-police-officer-in-manchester-city-centre/ Lets hope the court shows justice for the officer who was doing his job with the arrest🫰who might have been a drug dealer.

The deployment of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology by Met Police officers in Southwark helped put a registered sex offender back behind bars. https://news.met.police.uk/news/sex-offender-identified-during-met-police-live-facial-recognition-operation-497544 Good job the MET managed to pick up this Sex offender with Facial Recognition camera👏 and back behind bars for breaching the conditions of his SOPO, as well as possessing an offensive weapon.👏

The ringleader of a nationwide drugs and firearms conspiracy jailed for 25 years will now have to pay back £350,000. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/may/drug-gang-ringleader-ordered-to-pay-back-350000-of-criminal-proceeds/ lets hope they get the money from this drug dealer after he has done his time and not gaining the money from drug dealing👍

A man arrested by the National Crime Agency for masterminding the smuggling of thousands of people across the Mediterranean from north Africa into Europe has been jailed for 25 years. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/people-smuggler-who-organised-mediterranean-crossings-on-death-trap-boats-threatened-to-throw-migrants-in-the-sea Good work by the NCA by putting a end to this People smuggler and now serving 25 years👏

Shortly after 12pm today, an officer on duty in the Broughton area of Salford observed a group riding e-bikes dangerously and behaving anti-socially on Great Clowes Street. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/may/detectives-appeal-for-information-after-suspected-firearm-brandished-at-police-officer/ Not good when they point a firearm at police and good job they have both been arrested👏

A couple from Wales have been jailed for 23 years each after footage was shared online of them sexually abusing a child. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/couple-jailed-for-46-years-for-sexually-abusing-a-child Good arrest by the NCA and justice been given with both getting 23 years each 👏

Former Humberside Police Inspector Ian Walpole has been charged today (Friday, 16 May) with causing the sexual exploitation of a child under 13 and three counts of making indecent photographs of children. https://www.humberside.police.uk/news/humberside/news/news/25/may/former-inspector-charged-with-sexual-offences/ When you get a Former Humberside Police Inspector doing this is disgusting and good job he is not now a serving officer and hope the court deal with him with a decent sentence.🫰

Dartford officers have seized multiple deals of class A drugs after stopping a car that was being driven in a suspicious manner. https://www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/latest/policing-news/dartford-officers-seize-more-than-60-class-a-drug-deals/ Good work by the officers watching a drug deal go down and arresting them👏and now facing justice.👍

A man has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply class A drugs. https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2025/may/drug-dealer-sentenced-to-three-years/ Good arrest by the officers getting a drug dealer off the streets👏 but the sentence given not long enough for dealing in drugs.😠

Stephen Craig (21/11/1980) of Kingfisher Close, Manchester, was sentenced to two years imprisonment at Manchester Crown Court on Friday 16 May 2025 after pleading guilty to robbery of a business at an earlier hearing. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/may/man-who-caused-more-than-3000-of-damage-to-a-business-in-stockport-has-been-jailed/ Good work by the GMP in bringing the robber to justice.👏

A learner driver who fled the scene of fatal crash he caused in Redditch last April has today (Friday 16 May) been sentenced to 11 years and three months. https://www.westmercia.police.uk/news/west-mercia/news/2025/may/dangerous-driver-sentenced-for-killing-woman-in-redditch-crash/ My own opinion his sentence was to low when he killed a woman and caused her husband to suffer life-changing injuries he should have got 20 years 🤔 Dashcam footage in link with the daily mail as well. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14724095/Moment-uninsured-learner-driver-runs-away-killing-woman-head-crash.html

Peter Rule (12/11/1993) of Dalton Street, Manchester has been charged with possession of ammunition, possession of a firearm and possession of an offensive weapon. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/may/man-charged-with-firearm-and-ammunition-offences/ Good arrest by GMP and a firearm taken off the streets👏