UK Policing News

Stay safe up there guys and get well soon to the officer already injured.

http://www.policeora...nges_24839.htmlPolice have said they will not be implementing a recommendation from the manufacturer of the Taser to lower the aiming point of the device, claiming that there is currently no medical evidence to suggest it is necessary.ACC Simon Chesterman – the ACPO Lead on Firearms – said officers would continuing to be told to set their sights on the central body mass to achieve the best chance of a hit. He confirmed: "The manufacturer has asked to lower the point of aim when we are using the device, but we are not doing this until we have proper medical evidence. "The IPCC are very supportive of us using Taser. It is an unpleasant experience to…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/10505263.stm Police were told suspected gunman Raoul Moat had threatened to harm his former girlfriend the day before she was shot and her boyfriend killed. Northumbria Police said Durham Prison had told them of Moat's comments a day after his release on Thursday I was wondering how long it would take before it came back to us, will be interesting to see what the IPCC say we should have done better. is ther a prison ipcc?

Source: BBC News Cheshire Pc ignored 999 calls to have sex with lover There is a time and a place, silly PC.

02/07/2010 - Doormen join officers on street to help cut violence Source: Yorkshire Evening Post Pub and club doormen acting as paid street marshals will be out with police patrolling Leeds tonight to help cut violence. In a pioneering weekend scheme for the city centre, the doorstaff will join teams of regular constables, special constables and community support officers to patrol the streets. Leeds is the first city where licenced premises are funding the scheme themselves and not the police or their partners. Operation Capital was launched with three briefings of the Street Marshalls, NPT officers, special constables and an officer from British Transport Police …

Greater Manchester’s top cop has urged the government to free his force from red tape and let police get on with fighting crime. Chief Constable Peter Fahy said cops should be allowed to use ‘common sense’ in doing their job. Instead, he said, his officers were effectively becoming social workers in complex cases, despite lacking qualifications and facing intense scrutiny from government inspectors, the media, coroners and watchdog organisations. Mr Fahy told delegates at the Association of Chief Police Officers’ conference at Manchester Central of the absurdity of some internal audits. He said one consultant recommended slashing bureaucracy in the force – …

good job the police did uncover this little lot a crime by schoolboys.

http://free-dog-secr...Police-dog.html Police dogs have bitten more than 680 people in the West Midlands, new figures show today. Do the people who look after these dogs feed them properly? "The figures were today described as "worrying" by Wolverhampton councillor Milkinder Jaspal, who has previously stood on the West Midlands Police Authority. " I agree, so many will run from the Police it is worrying. Seems like they do a bang up job, i see no problem here.

and a executive coach and escorted by two ­officers on horseback and others – in a marked patrol car – carrying guns.why all this security i wonder???? dont they feel safe and it is funded with £10 million from the taxpayer.

Ohh noooes...... http://news.bbc.co.u...uk/10500081.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/10453199.stm A woman who made her neighbours' lives hell by having noisy sex has been spared jail for a second time. "breaching an Asbo for a fourth time " Will this sentencing do it now, or will she get a fifth chance? My life, she is not the pretties sight i have ever seen, what does he see in her?

A 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a planned attack by suspected rival gang members as he arrived at school. Zac Olumegbon, from Brixton Hill, south London, was ambushed by four young men at the gates of Park Campus School in nearby West Norwood. Four people have been arrested in connection with the incident in which a second teenager, believed to be 14 years old, was also stabbed in the arm. Sky News' crime correspondent Martin Brunt said Zac suffered multiple knife wounds in the attack at Park Campus School in West Norwood just before 9am. He was taken by air ambulance to hospital where he was confirmed dead. Brunt explained: "This boy was s…

Bus crime at its lowest level for six years 30 June 2010 - Bus-related crime falls by eight per cent - 11 crimes per million passenger journeys in 2009/10 "With only 11 crimes per million passenger journeys Londoners should be reassured that it is safer than ever to travel on the network" - David Brown, Managing Director of Surface Transport at TfL Crime on buses in the Capital is at its lowest level for six years. Today (30 June) the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced that in 2009/10 there were 2,000 fewer offences than the previous year, a drop of eight per cent. Despite a continued increase in bus passenger journeys over the last five years, the rate o…

"PLANS for volunteer police constables to drive at high speed would be a danger to the public, an officer has warned. The temporary chief constable of Kent Police has outlined the force's intention to be one of the first to train special constables, who volunteer part-time, for "urgent duty driving". But the plan has been slammed by a representative for officers in Kent as "a step too far". "God forbid we have a crash and find someone has been working extremely long hours during their day job and then has been allowed to drive a powerful car at high speed," said Ian Pointon, chairman of the Kent Police Federation – the trade union for officers. "This is about protec…

A married policeman had secret sex sessions with a witness when he should have been answering 999 calls.Father of one Timothy Reid, 41, exchanged more than 200 flirtatious texts with Michelle Harper during a two-month affair which cost him his job and his police pension. The high- speed response driver called at Miss Harper's house for sex when he should have been responding to a call out over a man who was threatening to throw a petrol bomb. On another occasion they had sex on her sofa while his police radio was still on and he once took two hours off work to visit Miss Harper at her home. Reid - who even attended a christening party with Miss Harper while on dut…