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ROCUWM and the region’s police forces seize over £5.1 million of Cannabis as part of Unprecedented National Campaign
Officers from the Regional Organised Crime Unit for the West Midlands Region (ROCUWM) assisted by the region’s four police forces have seized over £5.1 million cannabis plants after executing 107 warrants. At a scale and pace not seen before, police across...
National GAIN Partnership Event
This month saw the much-anticipated annual Government Agency Intelligence Network (GAIN) conference at Leicestershire Police Headquarters. The oversubscribed event had over 110 law enforcement delegates from police forces and partner agencies across England, Wales and...
RCCU Cyber Prevent & Protect Staff Attend RAF COSFORD Air Show 2023
ROCU Cyber Prevent & Protect staff from the Regional Cyber Crime Unit, supported by FCCU staff from West Midlands & West Mercia were invited to return to the RAF Cosford Air Show 2023. This was following the huge success of the event in 2022, but this year...
Operation Target
A major new initiative has been launched to target serious and organised crime across the region and bring offenders to justice.
Operation Target sees Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Mercia and West Midlands police joining forces in a defiant stand against a whole range of offences – from drug dealing and human trafficking, to cyber-crime and fraud.
Gang jailed for “cooking” crack cocaine and supplying the drug across the West Midlands
Three men and a woman have been jailed for more than 27 years in total for “cooking” crack cocaine and supplying the drug across the West Midlands
ROCUs targeting criminal kingpins once more, after arresting 3,000 and seizing £100 million in drugs
Specialist regional policing units dedicated to tackling organised crime across the country made more than 3,000 arrests and seized class A drugs worth over £100 million last year, as they continued to target the UK’s most serious criminals.Throughout 2022, the nine...