Category: UK police

Reducing Police Strip-Search Powers Could Lead to Higher Risk of Child Exploitation, Says Expert

Reducing police powers to strip-search under-18s “only serves to increase the attractiveness of children for criminal exploitation,” a former government special adviser has said. Rory Geoghegan said the police powers are needed because children are “often” forced or coerced into “concealing dangerous drugs on and around their bodies by vile individuals” seeking to profit from…


UK Police Arrest Suspect in Murder of Teacher Killed on 5-minute Walk to Meet Friend

LONDON—British police said on Thursday they had arrested a suspect in the hunt for the murderer of a teacher who was killed in a London park as she made a five-minute walk from her home to meet a friend at a pub. Sabina Nessa, 28, left her home in south London just before 8:30 p.m….


UK Police Enforcement of CCP Virus Rules Will Be Ramped Up in Third National Lockdown

Police enforcement of the rules put in place to slow the spread of the CCP virus will be ramped up in the UK during the country’s third national lockdown. Officers will impose fines more readily, and not knowing the rules will not be accepted as an excuse for breaking them, London’s Metropolitan Police (Met) said…