UK Policing News

A HAYES teenager who selflessly stepped in to protect a police officer who was being attacked by a man she was trying to arrest has been heralded as a "hero". http://uxbridge.uxbridgegazette.co.uk/2010...s-police-o.html well done that man not many people would step in and help

A DIY hero stopped a burglar from robbing a disused factory by sealing the only exit with a nailgun. Night watchman Simon Jayne noticed someone lurking inside the former textile mill while he carried out a routine check on the premises. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0jqUcuF2b Nice idea, now any chance this gentleman could be done for false imprisonment?

The Metropolitan Police (Met) has set up a new team to tackle human trafficking and exploitation. The Human Exploitation and Organised Crime unit will be responsible for investigating trafficking, sexual exploitation and forced labour. The new command is part of a re-organisation of a number of Met units. The overall unit will also include the Clubs and Vice unit and Operation Maxim, which tackles organised immigration crime in London. Detective Chief Superintendent Richard Martin said: "The new command will benefit from a single command structure for trafficking and the Specialist Crime Directorate focus and specialism on organised crime." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8595783.stm The pay bill of police officers and staff in England and Wales should be frozen to protect frontline services, business organisation the CBI has said. Would you be prepared for a pay freeze if it came to it?

Police have been criticised for 'burgling' homes — in a bizarre bid to prevent crime. The officers walked into homes through unlocked doors and open windows and left behind swag bags packed with valuable items they found. The controversial operation was designed to show how easy it is for burglars to break into properties. But some residents were unaware their property had been "burgled" — even though they were at home at the time. PC Rob Bolt, a neighbourhood beat manager in the St James area of Exeter, Devon, said "Officers were able to walk into people's homes and place the swag bags in the properties while we could hear them upstairs." Police "broke into" mor…

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/6273682.Po..._run_sex_fiend/ NORTH Yorkshire police are hunting a registered sex offender who has been on the run for 19 months – but they refuse to reveal his identity. So what is so special about these criminals? Will at some point in the future, all criminals remain anonymous for the same reasons?

Colin Furze, a plumber who adapted his scooter to shoot 15ft flames from the rear, has been arrested for an alleged firearms offence. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...r-arrested.html Mr Furze, 30, displayed his modified his scooter, with an anti-tailgating flame thrower operated by the flick of switch, in the press earlier this week. But Lincolnshire Police spotted the pictures of Mr Furze allegedly riding his scooter on a public highway – and arrested him on Thursday. Cont'd in link. Didn't think it would take long...

Funding for Community Support Officers should not continue to be ring fenced amid the fragile economic situation, according to ACPO The group is concerned that “the recession and uncertainty over future public spending†means managers need to have more of a say over how they can use their funds – and should not be committed to any one course of action. While ACC Jerry Kirkby, ACPO Lead on PCSOs, accepted that investment in the officers had enabled neighbourhood policing to become established, he was concerned at the tough economic conditions. “Perhaps this is the right time for the Service to be given greater flexibility,†he told PoliceOracle.com. Kirkby’s s…

A man has been sent to prison after he attempted to force his way into a female colleague’s life by breaking into her house and framing her husband for downloading child pornography. Ilkka Karttunen, who was born in Finland, became obsessed by a co-worker and hoped that he could forge a relationship with her if he could break up her marriage, jurors at Basildon Crown Court were told. He sneaked into her home in Southend, Essex, while she and her family were asleep and used the family computer to download images of children being abused, the jury was told. Kartunnen, 48, who denied charges of harrassment, perverting the course of justice and making indecent images of …

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A pensioner tried to abduct two young girls in separate incidents at a Sainsbury's supermarket, a court heard. Iain Quarrier, 68, waved a £20 note and told a nine-year-old girl: 'I want to buy you.' A fortnight later at the same store in Canal Way, Ladbroke Grove, he drunkenly tried to lead a screaming five-year-old away from her mother at the checkout. Blackfriars Crown Court heard he also received a police caution in 1996 for indecently assaulting two girls. Judge Aidan Marron QC handed Quarrier 12 months in jail suspended for two years after he admitted the Sainsbury's attack on the five-year-old. The earlier allegation relating to the nine-year-old was never pu…

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convicted rapist facing deportation has won a High Court battle to be allowed to stay in Britain so he can get married. Alphonse Semo, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, threw his victim on a rubbish tip when he 'had finished with her'. But last night he won the right to remain in the UK for his wedding, just hours before he was due to board a plane back to Africa. A judge said it was difficult to have any sympathy for Semo, who was jailed for eight years, but he must be allowed to stay. Mr Justice Collins said the Home Office had at first agreed to let the 53-year-old, from Deptford, south east London, get married to his long-term partner, a German nati…

The team was set up in July 2008 with a clear strategic vision to create a hostile environment for criminals that use the road network and cause significant disruption to their illegal business enterprises, from drugs to high value vehicle theft, to people trafficking. It is committed to supplying additional support wherever needed across the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber. Comprising officers and staff seconded from all four forces across Yorkshire and the Humber, the team is on-hand to supply extra resource, in fast time, wherever and whenever it is necessary. Its success is due largely to a combination of highly trained officers deploying specialist skills, sophis…

Her offence was to unwittingly sell a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy taking part in a trading standards 'sting'. At most, pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, expected a slap on the wrist for breaking new animal welfare laws which ban the sale of pets to under-16s. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0jkTpfXqo "She added: 'It's ridiculous. I mean, what danger am I that I have to wear an electronic tag? These last few months have been a very stressful time.'" Your another menace to society, how often have you been doing this? Poor innocent.