UK Policing News

Define The Front Line, Government Told Confusion about what constitutes the front line of policing is “unhelpful†as politicians continue debate the future law enforcement landscape, MPs have said. In publishing their short report on police finances, which examines how budget cuts are likely to affect forces in the next four years, members of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said the government needed to define what it meant by the term. A statement from the committee said: “The current confusion about what constitutes the front line is unhelpful – forces are being asked to prioritise the front line. http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Define-The-Front-Line,-Go…

Kenneth Clarke ready to bring in troops if strikes erupt over privatised prison Justice secretary says contingencies in place as he confirms private security company G4S is to run Birmingham prison. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/31/kenneth-clarke-privatised-birmingham-prison?INTCMP=SRCH Two things come to mind. First off, could this mean overtime for the police? Secondly, a victim of crime, can now watch a company make a profit over their misery, this i think is horrible.

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What I find most interesting about this story was that the arrest was found to be unlawful, although it doesn't really say why. I'd guess it may well have something to do with what seems to be an arrest by appointment.

Immigration officers stormed a West Kensington cafe and arrested three people on Friday. Acting on intelligence, the officers raided the Mirabell cafe in Hammersmith Road. Three staff members - a Mongolian man, 29, a Mongolian woman, 31, and a Brazilian man, 24 – were questioned and then arrested for being in the country after their visas expired. All three have been detained pending expulsion from the country, while the cafe faces a fine of up to £30,000. Rebecca Baumgartner, UK Border Agency deputy director for London, said: "It is the legal responsibility of all businesses to check their employees have the right to work in the UK. "Illegal working is a crime th…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12822172 Two dogs have been shot by police marksmen in Hertfordshire. The shootings follow reports of two Rottweilers behaving aggressively towards members of the public in the Holdbrook area of Waltham Cross. Residents were told to stay indoors as 20 officers and a dog warden tried to catch the animals, believed to have escaped from a house on the estate. Police, who were called at about 1230 GMT, used shields to keep the dogs at bay. A spokeswoman for Hertfordshire Police said: "The operation has now come to a conclusion. We've sadly had to shoot the two dogs to protect members of the public and officers." She said the …

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286280/Female-bodyguards-lighter-baby-guns.html This is the reasonable adjustments that we have to make as part of the monitoring processes no doubt. How would you feel being given a smaller and lighter weapon, with less ammo, than your male colleagues. It's like back in the days when WPCs got the small lighter truncheon which they could keep in the police issue handbag.

The Sun - click here COPS quizzed a boy of 13 over an "assault" on another lad - with a MARSHMALLOW. Officers swooped on Nathan Watch's school in Torpoint, Cornwall, after a sweet thrown by larking kids hit the lad. Nathan's dad Nigel called the probe "pathetic". He told how he was called by the school to tell him his son was being accused of "common assault" - and would be quizzed as it had become a "police matter". Fuming Nigel, 45, said: "I asked if anyone had been injured and they said no, as the assault had been carried out by a single pink marshmallow. "Witness statements were taken from a number of pupils who had to be taken out of class. And Nathan was brou…

I wish this was an april fools joke. A Cheshire police officer accused of breaking a man's skull was put up for a national bravery award, a court heard. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12927754 Believing Mr Reed was about to assault Mr Farrell, he ran into him using a "body check" technique. -> The court heard from a personal safety expert for Cheshire Police, Kevin Barry, who said the body check technique was taught to officers on courses to teach self defense. So, taught to do it, do it in appropriate circumstances, person gets hurt. Prison. There are few techniques for getting someone who has made off, even taking someone to the ground normall…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12920843 A smart or naive move?

Why don't we just flipping well give up?

Disappointed at this decision, but not wholly unexpected sadly... nice to see the BBC managed to source an image of the aircraft in question...

Anyone on here wear this kit, seems it might just slow you down a tad? The airbag for Police officers: Jacket that inflates in a tenth of a second can save officers from serious injuries in a fall Last updated at 3:05 AM on 27th March 2011 Comments (7) Add to My Stories Inspector John Fowler tries out the Point Two Air Jacket The unfortunately named Professor David Nutt, the sacked chief drug adviser to the Government, actually had a point when talking about the addictive nature of marathon runs. He just went too far when he said that taking ecstasy was no more dangerous, which seemed bonkers to many people, including his employers, although not to a self-aware m…

Looking forward to going on the training course.