UK Policing News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11943411 Twenty men have been arrested by customs officers investigating a suspected multi-million pound fraud. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) criminal investigators carried out raids on 12 commercial and 17 domestic properties across the South East and the Midlands. It followed a probe into a suspected £50m excise duty and VAT fraud. Spokesman Bob Gaiger said it was thought beer and wine bound for EU markets had been smuggled into the UK without appropriate tax payments. Searches were also being carried out in Germany. Mr Gaiger said: "HMRC criminal investigators have uncovered a suspected multi-million pound excise duty and VAT…

Source BBC Surprised this hasn't been posted yet? Anyway, it does indeed sound like there was some abject sloppiness on the part of Essex Police. Poor call handling, a failure to undertake basic welfare checks at the address and the bizarre dismantling of her panic alarm just at the point when he was released from prison. Clearly the Police could have done better and they deserve to be critcised. That said, I did slightly bristle at the full-on assault mounted by the family on the Police. At the end of the day we're all adults and we make our own choices and Essex Police were faced with the task of sorting out the mess after Ms Stubbings chose the wrong boyfriend.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11933385 Hasn't this sort of thing been tried time and again? Is it really acceptable to reduce costs by refusing to jail people? Would jailing them and making them pay their way by doing jobs (sewing mailbags anyone?) be a better way to make up revenue? Personally I think it's insane that a judge might not be able to jail someone because it costs too much! the cost of jailing someone should never be taking into account because if jail is where they belong then they should be there. Cut costs by making them work, reduce the comforts of prison life and make them not want to be there because of some, prison is nicer than w…

http://www.bbc.co.uk...litics-11929401 disgracful news not to jail people who carry knifes mr clarke when the police want to drive down this type of crime:angry:

http://www.bbc.co.uk...w-west-11939592 i feel sorry for the poor officers in the grip of snow like it is and still doing a fine job.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-11936413 A former police officer has been ordered to pay back more than £85,000 after he admitted money laundering. Darren Graysmark, 44, of Coney Furlong, Peacehaven, East Sussex, who served with Sussex Police for 23 years, was jailed for 16 months in August. Maidstone Crown Court served him with an £85,671 confiscation order on Tuesday. His partner, Darren Simpson, also 44, was ordered to pay £21,920. Simpson admitted dealing cocaine and was jailed for six years in October. Graysmark was a Pc at Newhaven Ports Unit at the time of his arrest, in April 2009, as part of an inquiry into drugs trafficking. He resigned from…

http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/8715952.No_overtime_pay_for_police/ This link to a Warrington paper says that they have read an email from Cheshire ACC saying that police staff wont be getting OT for working Xmas Day and Boxing Day. Anyone know if this is Police Staff as in Police Officers or do they mean civvy employees?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-11905685 A man who stabbed a police officer in a robbery at a betting shop days after being freed from prison on licence has been found guilty of attempted murder. Kes Nattriss, 28, stabbed Det Con Luke Simms in the stomach as the officer tried to arrest him at Corals in Bracknell, Berkshire, on 19 May. He had been released part-way through a seven-year term for raids on off-licences and a bookmaker, police said. Nattriss, of no fixed abode, will be sentenced on 10 December. He admitted robbery and possession of an offensive weapon at an earlier hearing but was convicted of attempted murder at Reading Crown Court. Polic…

A Conservative election pledge that anyone caught carrying a knife could expect a jail term will not be implemented, the BBC has been told. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11929401 Well that's one government 'pledge' (lie) i hope the bosses and courts ignore. though i never did see anyone get a jail sentence from carrying a knife, unless they had a pnc like a phone book.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...dshire-11921857 how stupid some teenagers are to do a stupid thing like this that might have turned into a murder charge.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/law-obituaries/8180276/Leonard-Burt.html Leonard Burt, who died on November 24 aged 78, headed Operation Countryman, the controversial investigation into police corruption in London in the late 1970s; as a young detective nearly 20 years earlier he had helped break up the Portland spy ring whose members were passing secrets about Britain’s nuclear submarines to the Soviets. RIP!! Leonard Burt

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11917656 Nearly one in 10 police officers in England and Wales is on sick leave or restricted duties, according to figures obtained by The Times. The newspaper says the totals are up by 20% on four years ago. It says the figures were compiled from Freedom of Information requests to all 43 forces in England and Wales. In Warwickshire, nearly one in seven officers is on sick leave or restricted duty but in Cambridgeshire the figure is just one in 24. The Times says 9,500 police officers are on restricted duty because of ill-health. That means they get their full salaries whilst completing paperwork or answering phone calls - sometimes …

http://www.bbc.co.uk...london-11921366 a good job it was found by the police and not the young children.

Hi everyone, for the interest of one of my best friends in the police, I was just wondering, does anyone know HOW Home Office Forces are going to get rid of Frontline Officers, PCSO's and Police Staff? I only ask as he wants to know crucially, will they be brought in one day and told of their fate ie.- being removed from office within a month, followed by a month's pay? OR will they make them work for a month, as usual before letting them go? Will this apply to Frontline Police Officers? I am aware that as servants of the Crown they cannot be made redundant in the same way that Police Staff can. So how are frontline officers dealt with? Thank you for you help on this, …

http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/local/cops_snoop_on_tv_s_chloe_1_2827179 POLICE officers are facing disciplinary action for snooping on X-Factor contestant Chloe Mafia. It is understood at least 70 members of West Yorkshire Police staff have received letters asking them to explain why they checked official police records for information about the 20-year-old talent show star, real name Chloe Heald. Assistant chief constable John Parkinson said he could think of ‘no valid reason’ for people to access such personal information, and that it would not be tolerated. He said: “It is completely inappropriate for any member of West Yorkshire Police to access info…