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LARGE, noisy crowds are expected to gather in Birmingham city centre this Saturday – but rather than avoid the area, officers are encouraging people to get involved. Between 11am and 4pm, off-duty officers from Birmingham Central police station will be allowing shoppers to subject them to 'medieval torture'. http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/latest-news/press-release.asp?id=2130 i can see two ways of looking at this. 1) Great idea, interesting way to make money for charity. 2) Bringing the force into disrepute , making a mockery of the Police. (This is my view) There are ways to create wealth for charities that has been done by Officers like Soren and many other…

http://www.bbc.co.uk...w-west-12819114 Glasgow University students eviction 'heavy handed' A police operation to evict student protesters from Glasgow University has been condemned as being "unacceptable" and "heavy handed".Glasgow Student Representative Council said more than 80 officers, 18 police vehicles and a helicopter had been deployed to evict about 15 students. They occupied the Hetherington Research club for seven weeks in protest at cuts designed to save £20m by 2014. The university called in police in a bid to clear the site on Tuesday. A spokesman for the university said: "The university has previously written to the last remaining students occupying t…

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Good, at last her family might see someone brought to justice for her murder.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12840557 Thirteen children under the age of 10 have been issued with shotgun certificates in the UK over the past three years. The youngest child to be granted a licence was seven years old, figures obtained by BBC News show. Last year, the Association of Chief Police Officers suggested that Under 10s are banned from using shotguns. But the British Association for Sports and Conservation says children use shotguns for sports activities. The statistics were released by 51 police forces under the Freedom of Information Act. Dorset was the only constabulary not to provide information. Between 2008 and 2010, 7,071 licences were issued…

Libya has closed its air space to all traffic in a move seen to thwart the United Nation's imposition of a no-fly zone over the country. http://news.sky.com/...Zone_Over_Libya It appears we can afford to Police other countries, but not our own. It is true we do not have mass killings unlike Libya, but we seem to have our own problems. A Salford man has been charged after an incident left a woman with a broken jaw. http://bit.ly/fDlzKW A community care worker who conned a vulnerable elderly woman out of more than £3,000, and administered an injec...http://bit.ly/giAaCQ Sixty-three people have been charged by police investigating a nationwide motoring scam. http://bit…

Grampian Police officers receive pedal bike training http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-12745313 Lessons in how to get onto a bike and pedal are being given to officers from Grampian Police. A one-day training course is accompanied by a 17-page booklet. Prolly save on petrol.

Kenneth Noye, one of the UK's most notorious criminals, has lost his appeal against his conviction for a road rage murder in Kent. Noye, 63, stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron during a fight on an M25 slip road at Swanley in 1996. He fled to Spain afterwards but was extradited in 1998 and jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2000. He denied murder, on the grounds of self-defence. Two previous appeals by Noye, in 2001 and 2004, were unsuccessful. His case was being looked at again following a decision by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to refer it to the Court of Appeal. http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-kent-12816930 I still can't believe he got away with killin…

Relatives of the man stabbed fo death by Kenneth Noye were furious yesterday after he won the right to appeal against his conviction. And we wonder where our money has gone, mostly on wastes of time like this fellow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12806554 I would have liked to have seen a lower drink-drive limit, to be honest. I followed a car the other day which was being driven atrociously. The driver was in no condition to drive it... but blew 32.

Security guards given police powers http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/security-guards-given-police-powers-2248187.html Private security guards are gaining limited policing powers today under a Government scheme to relieve the petty crime burden on forces. They will be legally allowed to combat under-age drinking, begging and anti-social behaviour around one of Britain's busiest transport hubs. I can foresee strange people in all manor of outfits arresting anyone who blinks to hard. This is wrong, policing on the very cheap, as some company will pay for guards.

http://www.guardian....ce-instructions Met keen to avoid repeat of battles at student protest as 4,500 assigned officers to be monitored by human rights group So, Police not only have IPCC on their backs, but Liberty watch too. "Does the requirement to facilitate peaceful protest override the police's duty to prevent disorder? How many police officers are allowed to be injured before those who are left are deployed with the correct protective equipment? How much criminal damage is acceptable before the police are allowed to act?" Anyone have an answer to this? "The police operation is to be scrutinised at close quarters by the human rights group Liberty, wh…