UK Policing News

A man who tried to smuggle 72 firearms parts in a car shipped from Pakistan to the United Kingdom has today been jailed for eight years. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/man-jailed-over-gun-parts-hidden-in-48-year-old-car-from-pakistan Good work by the NCA in arresting the man who was trying to smuggle gun parts into the UK👏 and given a decent sentence of eight years.👍

A paedophile who threatened a teenage girl with a gun down a Manchester alleyway following a campaign of grooming and sexual abuse in the 2000s has admitted charges following a GMP investigation. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/march/paedophile-admits-grooming-girls-for-sex-in-manchester-in-2000s-as-operation-green-jacket-secures-first-convictions/ Good work by the GMP in the arrest of this Paedophile👏 and hope he gets a nice long spell in prison👍

The fight against the sale of heroin and cocaine in Gravesham has continued with charges for a suspected dealer. https://www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/latest/policing-news/suspected-gravesham-drug-dealer-tracked-down-in-london/ Great another drug dealer arrested and off the street to face justice.👏

Kent Police has arrested nine people and seized cannabis, cocaine and weapons as part of a national campaign targeting organised crime. https://www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/latest/policing-news/arrests-made-and-drugs-seized-in-kent-during-national-organised-crime-operation/ Good arrest by police and getting more drug dealers off the streets.👏disrupting and shutting down cannabis cultivations👏

A man who raped two teenage girls he met on Snapchat has been jailed for nine years, following an investigation by specialist detectives at the Metropolitan Police Service. https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-jailed-for-raping-two-girls-he-met-online-494849 Good work by specialist detectives bringing him to justice 👏

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0ypn4pyyro A national policing unit has been criticised for telling local forces to block the release of information under laws designed to safeguard the public's right to know. I have seen FOI requests sent to multiple forces that have been refused, and the reasons given for rejection by each force are identical word for word. While it's possible that several different forces might all independently decide to refuse a particular request, they wouldn't all just happen to use the exact same wording by chance. They are clearly just reading from a script, but that isn't how the FOI system is supposed to work. It's supposed to b…

We are welcoming the sentencing of three Liverpool brothers for drug supply offences as part of a Project Medusa County Lines investigation. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/march-2025/three-liverpool-brothers-jailed-for-drug-supply/ Good three more drugs off the streets , but the sentence they got was far to low and should have been given a lot longer sentence for dealing drugs ☹️

A 24-year-old man who sexually assaulted a girl and was found with more than 5,000 indecent images of children has been jailed. https://www.northants.police.uk/news/northants/news/in-court/2025/march/man-found-with-more-than-5000-indecent-images-of-children-jailed/ Good the man has been sent down for this wicked crime him sexually assaulting a five-year-old child and with more than 5,000 indecent images of children 👍

Five men have pleaded guilty after 200 cannabis plants were found in Stoke-on-Trent. https://www.staffordshire.police.uk/news/staffordshire/news/2025/march/five-men-plead-guilty-after-200-cannabis-plants-found-inside-grow/ Good arrest by police and shut down the cannabis farm 👏and They were remanded into custody ahead of their next appearance at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on 10 April 2025 🫰they get a jail sentence.

A police sergeant who was caught naked while masturbating in park bushes near a children's playground was spared jail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14448479/police-sergeant-spared-jail-caught-masturbating-bush.html what he has done is totally disgusting behaviour and quite right he has been dismissed from the police and got away without a jail sentence and leaves a stain on the himself and the police service.

Detectives have charged three people, and arrested a further two, as part of investigations into Violent Disorder in Merseyside last summer. https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2025/march-2025/further-charges-and-arrests-in-relation-in-violent-disorder-in-merseyside/ More people being brought to justice from last years disorder👏

A specialist team which has now prosecuted hundreds of rogue riders in Kirklees is urging residents to keep making reports as warmer weather approaches. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news-appeals/kirklees-road-bike-team-seizes-more-150-illegal-bikes Great ongoing work by WYP in getting Illegal Bikes off the roads and the MET should do the same in London getting rid of the Illegal Bikes👍

This morning (Tuesday 4 March 2025) officers from the Hyde Godley Neighbourhood Team along with TMBC Trading Standards, Environmental Services and Immigration officers conducted a warrant at a business premises in the town centre. https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2025/march/three-arrested-on-suspicion-of-drug-and-immigration-offences-in-tameside/ Great work by the GMP cracking down and arresting the Three men in their 30s were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class C drugs and immigration offences.👏

Three men who organised parties at which they got children drunk and then abused them have been convicted of a series of sexual offences, following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-stovewood-men-found-guilty-of-raping-girls-at-parties Good work and arrest by the NCA👏 and the three are put away for a very long time.🫰

Violent clashes which saw police 'ambushed' and brutally attacked by Romanian thugs are believed to have erupted when social services 'tried to take two children from a home'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14447405/Thugs-street-brawl-punched-kicked-attacked-police-social-workers-children.html Let,s hope all of the 'Six people – aged from 15 to 54 arrested in connection with the incident for offences relating to affray, resisting arrest and assaulting an emergency worker and the court comes down hard on them handing out a stiff sentence to thugs who attack the officers .