UK Police are too busy responding to trivial social media spats to tackle serious crime, the new head of the Police Federation has said, after years of forces encouraging “hate crime” reports for offensive comments.
With soaring rates of “high harm” crime, falling arrest rates, and a shrinking proportion of crimes resulting in a charge, police forces in Britain are finding it “increasingly difficult” to keep the public safe, an official report has warned.
There has been a 22 per cent surge in knife crime and an 11 per cent increase in gun crime, with offences “disproportionately concentrated in London” and other cities, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has said.
Police forces in England and Wales have admitted losing track of hundreds of sex criminals including rapists, paedophiles, and groomers.
Official new guidance on “equal treatment” instructs judges to favour non-white defendants in order to “redress inequality”.
Averaging at 177 cases a day, child sex crime allegations including rape and grooming are at a record high in the UK, the NSPCC has warned.
Gihan Muthukumarana told undercover police they could make £10 million raping children on video for “top political people”, a court has heard.
Police have stepped up patrols after a man allegedly tried to rape a 10-year-old child in broad daylight in Manchester.
Crime figures released this week revealed that fatal stabbings in England and Wales are at the highest level since 2010-2011, while rapes at knifepoint rose by 23 per cent in the past year.
Two teenagers acted as a “twisted tag team”, raping a woman at her home, behind a mosque and in an alleyway at gunpoint, in what police called a “disgusting, heartless attack”.
A Syrian has been jailed after stabbing a man multiple times in a ‘ferocious’ attack launched just two months after being flown into Britain with his family as a refugee by UK taxpayers. Fahed Shamery was sentenced at Chester Crown
A woman has been charged with grievous bodily harm after two policemen were stabbed in what was described as a “serious incident” in Essex.
Seizures of ammunition and weapons at Britain’s borders almost trebled last year.
Campaigners have called for “urgent action” after government figures showed a 64 per cent rise in sexual grooming offences against children in just one year.
A major London hospital has seen the number of gunshot injuries rise faster than knife wounds, and the average age of victims get younger as the city battles a surge in violent crime, a consultant trauma surgeon has revealed.
Rwandan migrant Derrick Mutambuka has been jailed for more than nine years for violently raping a woman after he became ‘sexually aroused’ in a Sunderland nightclub.
Knife crime has soared since Theresa May curbed police use of stop and search, a tactic that activists condemn as “racist” but which senior officers insist saves black lives.
Violent crime in England and Wales has shot up by 24 per cent. In the 12 months to June, murder was up 20 per cent, knife crime 9 per cent, and gun crime surged 7 per cent, according to police recorded crime figures.
A mother-of-three was allegedly drugged and raped by a gang of migrants in Sunderland, sparking violent demonstrations and social unrest in the city.
