Tag: UK Police

• Wednesday, August 7th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  UK police using drones to watch livestock at night to prevent illegal sheep butchery

  

  Operation Stock is Northamptonshire Police's response to such incidents. Using the drone’s thermal image technology and flying no higher than 400ft, its operators can monitor large rural areas.

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  UK Police has 10.000 officers ready for a possible no-deal Brexit and “inflamed consequences”

  

  Politicians and campaigners should take care not to “inflame” tensions in the UK caused by Brexit, a senior police chief has warned. Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt said people should think carefully to avoid inciting others to violence. The warning follows increased concern about intimidation of MPs.

• Monday, July 9th 2018 - 08:20 UTC

  UK woman dies after exposed to never agent Novichok; her partner in critical condition

  

  UK police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman who was exposed to the nerve agent novichok died in hospital on Sunday evening. Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, died at Salisbury District Hospital, Scotland Yard said.

• Monday, June 5th 2017 - 07:53 UTC

  Corbyn says police should use “whatever force is necessary” to save lives

  

  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused the Conservatives of trying to “protect the public on the cheap” in a speech focusing on the London terror attack. Mr. Corbyn, who has previously questioned the wisdom of a shoot-to-kill policy, also backed the police to use “whatever force is necessary” to save lives. His comments mark the end of a pause in Labor's campaigning after the attack.

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 19:08 UTC

  Further Manchester arrests, “the operation is still at full tilt” says Home Secretary Rudd

  

  British police made two more arrests and stormed three more locations Sunday as they hunted for suspects in the Manchester bombing, while a government minister said members of attacker Salman Abedi's network may still be at large.

• Friday, September 16th 2011 - 06:56 UTC

  Police in London arrest suspect linked with 2bn dollars rogue trades at UBS

  

  Police in London have arrested a 31-year-old man in connection with allegations of unauthorised trading which has cost Swiss banking group UBS an estimated 2bn dollar (£1.3bn).