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What are Com networks and what threat do they pose?

The National Crime Agency has warned of the threats posed by online networks of teenage boys involved in disturbing crimes.

Evening Standard · Mar 25, 2025

Teenage boys are targeting girls online for sexual abuse and violence, warns National Crime Agency

Reports have surged in the last three years of gangs of boys sharing extreme violence pictures and misogynistic online

Evening Standard · Mar 25, 2025

Threat from teenage boys in ‘sadistic’ online groups surges sixfold, National Crime Agency warns

Intelligence shows a rise in ‘com networks’ used by ‘young men who are motivated by status, power, control, misogyny, sexual gratification or an obsession with extreme or violent material’

The Independent UK · Mar 25, 2025

Six men convicted after trafficked migrants forced to work on cannabis farms

The National Crime Agency said illegal sites were run in the Midlands, London and the north of England

Evening Standard · Feb 25, 2025

Met Deputy Commissioner Dame Lynne Owens to retire

The 56-year-old was brought in to help clean up the London force at arguably one of the most troubled times in its history.

The Independent UK · Feb 25, 2025

London drug dealer jailed after being caught in car with 20k in cash and 1.5kg of cocaine

Gleni Goleci, 27, was arrested after being found with £350,000-worth of cocaine and £80,000 cash

Evening Standard · Feb 7, 2025

Suspected people smugglers arrested in London and set to be extradited to France

Albanian Lulzim Brahaj, 47 and Iraqi Rebin Sharif, 25, were tracked down by National Crime Agency investigators and arrested in London

Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2025

AI tools have put child sexual abuse ‘on steroids’, Home Secretary warns

The Home Office said fake images are being used to blackmail children and force them to livestream further abuse.

Evening Standard · Feb 2, 2025

More than 8,000 social media accounts linked to people smuggling taken down

The accounts featured posts including the false promotion of small boat crossings of the Channel as being via speedboat.

Evening Standard · Jan 27, 2025

Pair jailed for attempting to import handgun in post from US

The self-loading pistol was intercepted and seized by Border Force officers at Stansted Airport in July

Evening Standard · Jan 23, 2025