UK Policing News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bradford-west-yorkshire-12084558 Best wishes to the officer who has been injured. Me being a cynic now means that the IPCC will take 12 months to come to a decision meanwhile the officers involved will be suspended!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12080487 CCTV cameras across London help solve almost six crimes a day, the Metropolitan Police (Met) has said. Det Ch Insp Mick Neville, who heads the Met's identification unit, said CCTV images were "treated like fingerprints and DNA" by the force. The number of suspects who were identified using the cameras went up from 1,970 in 2009 to 2,512 this year. Earlier this month campaign group Big Brother Watch criticised the rise in the number of CCTV cameras. The group said the cameras were "a ubiquitous feature on Britain's streets". The number of cameras in Britain has gone up from 21,000 in 1999 to 59,753 in 2010, i…

My link Cant see whats wrong with what hes said, and im a northerner! Surely its better for someone to do any work than claim benefits. It goes to show what a nanny state we are when someone cant say what they think about people and work!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8219287/Man-arrested-for-throwing-snowball.html A man has been handcuffed and hauled into court for throwing a snowball at a police officer. Some obvious advice from me, do not throw anything at Police officers. Just a thought, is the Telegraph starting to sound like the daily mail?

Source: BBC Cornwall Must have been given special dispensation to stay a bit longer, as D&C have started using the 30 years service rule to retire officers, including an inspector who only took over his area less than 12 months ago.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk...reland-12064846 i dont understand people who do this to officers and target the familys in my mind it is despicable the people who do it..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12073524 More than 1,800 websites selling counterfeit or non-existent goods have been shut down by police. The websites were offering items including Premier League tickets, Ugg boots, Tiffany jewellery and Timberland clothing. Shoppers who paid for the goods either received faked items or nothing at all. Police said the sites were run by organised criminals and generated millions of pounds. Nominet, which handles domain name registrations ending in .uk, assisted with the crackdown. The Metropolitan Police said they saw an upsurge in counterfeit web crime over the Christmas period. Det Insp Paul Hoar…

Police budget cuts detail revealed Police forces in England and Wales face cuts in central funding in the next two years of 4% then 5%, the government has announced.Policing minister Nick Herbert said the cuts would be "challenging" but the savings were possible "while protecting the front-line" police services. Central funding will fall to £9.3bn in 2011-12, then £8.8bn the year after. The minister announced separate funds for counter-terrorism, and until 2013 for neighbourhood policing. Mr Herbert said the government would "play its part" in helping to achieve savings "through continuing work with authorities and forces on value for money". This work would cover …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11400435 A coroner has released footage of a barrister brandishing a shotgun at the window of his London flat moments before he was shot dead by marksmen. The man appears to have lost the plot.

Any thoughts on this one? I think people are being a bit too harsh on that day and there was room for human error. Like it was said it was a good example on how to take measures for future operations.

London student 'struck by truncheon' has brain injury Hundreds of protesters converged in Parliament Square during the voting Continue reading the main story Related stories Fee protest clear-up is under way Fee protests to be investigated Student protesters: 'We will continue to fight' A student suffered bleeding to the brain when he was struck by a police truncheon during the tuition fees protest, his mother has alleged. Alfie Meadows, 20, of Middlesex University, was hit on the head as he tried to leave Westminster Abbey area, his mother Susan Matthe…

Asylum seeker who left girl, 12, to die after hit-and-run can stay in UK Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz18NuV4h1a Oh goody, we are to keep him. Seems like Police might be wasting their time attempting to put away convicted murderers, maybe only go after softer targets, more black and white ones. How about our Human rights, that`s right, yours and mine, not to have this nasty bit of work roaming around killing the innocent. "Since his release from prison he has accrued a string of further convictions, including more driving offences, harassment and cautions for burglary and theft." Our human rights to be rid of this cretin.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-12070315 A Merseyside police officer has been charged in connection with a fight at a pub after which a man died. Christopher Shackleton, 42, died from a stroke after the disturbance at the Freshfield Hotel on Massams Lane, Formby, on 24 July. Andrew Neville Jackson, 27, from Formby has been charged with assault and is due to appear before Preston Magistrates' Court on 29 December. Police said the officer, who was off-duty at the time, remains suspended.