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This evening (Thursday 18 April) detectives from the NWROCU have charged a further three people in connection with Operation Falcon - an investigation into a large scale drugs conspiracy.
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Four suspects have been charged after a series of high-value burglaries across the North East.
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Three men from Manchester and Liverpool have been jailed at Manchester Crown Court for over 36 years after their drugs and firearms deals were uncovered by NWROCU detectives when the encrypted communications platform ‘EncroChat’ was taken down by international law enforcement in 2020.
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Aidan Sayers, 22, is now behind bars after the role he played in the illegal importation of Class A and B drugs into England from the United States of America – estimated to be worth almost £93,000.
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Policing leads have praised the country’s specialist organised crime units for significantly increasing their seizures of class A drugs and dangerous weapons in the last three years.
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The first-ever policing lead for Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been appointed by the National Police Chiefs Council.
Following a joint investigation by the NWROCU's Prison Anti-Corruption Unit, His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service's Counter Corruption Unit, and HMP Buckley Hall, a prison officer was jailed for 2 years and 8 months at Bolton Crown Court yesterday (Wednesday, March 27, 2024). An operational support officer was also given a 1 year suspended sentence and ordered to carry out 200 hour of unpaid work.
Four members of an organised crime group, responsible for moving multiple kilos of cocaine, heroin, and Ketamine have been sentenced following an investigation by officers from the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit.
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Two more members of a Norfolk-linked organised crime group importing and selling wholesale amounts of class A drugs have been jailed.
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A high-ranking drug dealer who based himself abroad believing he would be beyond the reach of police has been convicted of running a gang which imported huge amounts of class A drugs.