UK Policing News

http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/4DF16BE760CD55BF8025782300581F59.htm A man has been jailed for causing the death of an off duty police officer who was hit by a car and killed in Heaton Mersey Four and a half years is a joke, oops not half a year, but two months, is that all a Police Officers life is worth? Anyways RIP PC Mike Silcock

One man has died and another suffered serious injuries when the car they were travelling in crashed while being pursued by an unmarked police car. West Yorkshire Police said the 20-year-old driver of a Seat Leon from the Stocksbridge area died when the car crashed on South Street in Keighley. The car was being followed shortly after midnight on Sunday morning. A 15-year-old male passenger suffered serious head injuries and two 16-year-olds were taken to hospital for checks. Police said the Seat car failed to stop for officers and hit a wall and then a metal security gate outside Keighley Business Centre. The 15-year-old passenger was initially taken to Bradford Royal…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12175431 Flyers have been posted around a south London estate, where a 17-year-old was shot dead, urging people not to give information to the police. The flyers are linked to a website Stop Snitching which offers to help people who do not want to co-operate with authorities. The website tells people not to trust Operate Trident, which investigates gun crime within London's black community. Det Ch Supt Stuart Cundy called the campaign "irresponsible leafleting". Sylvester Akapalara, of Streatham, was shot dead in a stairwell on the Pelican Estate in Peckham on 29 December. Three males - two 18-year-olds and a 17-year…

A police force has denied a four-year crackdown on kerb-crawlers has made sex workers more vulnerable to attack by forcing them to move on to other areas. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-12164811 Very odd attitude from the BBC. Is that not like the Police asking people to put in burgle alarms in order to make thieving tougher? I have offered my services to local Police, a large vehicle in order to put in our local prostitutes, and drop them off in deepest darkest Hertfordshire, allow them to walk home. Do it twice and these girls do not come back to your area.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-12285006 Police memorabilia will go on show in Lancashire, as a new police museum opens. Among the items on display will be police uniforms from the 1930s onwards, batons, inspectors' canes and helmets. There will also be a display on Lancaster's infamous murderer from the 1930s - Buck Ruxton, who killed his lover and maid. It will be based in the police contact centre at Lancaster bus station from Wednesday. The centre will also be used for drop-in sessions.

BBC News (for the record, allthe images related to rioting or interface violence) How would these youths be identified in your force/service/constabulary?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8277932/Prince-Charles-asked-for-Met-to-be-renamed-the-Royal-Metropolitan-Police.html The Prince told the former commissioner Sir David McNee that the Royal family could do more to support the police and Sir David enthusiastically took up the idea, the records show. Royal Cheshire Police has a better ring to it.

New service to provide police helicopters Police forces in England and Wales will share helicopters to save money The police helicopters of England and Wales are to be merged into a single National Police Air Service. A "shadow service" will begin next year and the full national service will roll out in 2012. Currently there are 33 aircraft at 30 different bases. These all belong to individual forces. The National Police Air Service will have 23 aircraft at 20 bases. This will save £15m from the current total of £66m. The service, which will a…

Sky News

POLICE AUTHORITY PUBLISHES BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS Cheshire Police Authority has today published the papers which will be considered at a meeting of its Finance Committee on Tuesday 1 February. Margaret Ollerenshaw, Chairman of the Authority said, “This year, in order to be more open and transparent, we decided to turn the meeting into a public Committee and publish the information we consider about the budget earlier. This means that people can see the challenges we face with regards to police funding before we make our final decisions on 22 February. What is certain, is that due to the economic climate, reductions in the Coalition Government’s funding for policing…

More HERE > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12142177 Only thing I got to say is that he is stereotyping.....wtf? I actually personally myself don't see much Asians on news about Sex offences, but just cause 2 guys got arrested does not mean this guy has to criticise all Pakistani. Your Views?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1348860/Driving-hours-night-bad-wheel-drunk.html#ixzz1BbMUlBP8 Now experts who carried out the research want governments to impose a maximum two-hour limit on continuous night-time driving in a bid to curb accidents and death rates. It is estimated that one-fifth of all traffic accidents are due to sleepiness behind the wheel. One in three motorists admits to nodding off while driving at night. I would be well up for this. no more than 2 hours driving at a time. Show me standing down from patrol, sleepy time.

http://cms.met.police.uk/news/convictions/men_jailed_for_limehouse_shooting Intriguing reading I thought, especially as you have both groups with access to firearms and both groups being caught and sent down for it (apart from the second bike rider).

http://menmedia.co.u...p_drunk_soldier iam sure most members of the forum will remember this case .do any one think it was right to cut his sentence??