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Avon and Somerset Police have received an overwhelming response to its latest recruitment drive, receiving more than 500 calls within the first two hours. The Force is bucking the national trend by recruiting police officers for the beat. More than half the police forces across England and Wales have frozen recruitment or are cutting the number of officers this year because of Government funding cuts. Avon and Somerset Police announced on Friday that it was looking for 64 new student officers to join the force. Interested applicants were asked to call a dedicated hotline - which opened at 7am this morning (Monday, March 22) - to obtain an application pack. Within tw…

A teenage trickster who began a £250,000 crime spree when he was just 13 escaped jail yesterday for another £100,000 worth of scams. Grinning as he left court, James Blake Cameron remarked: “I wasn’t expecting that, were you?†Instead of a spell behind bars, he was given a 50-week suspended sentence after admitting conning businesses and individuals into providing luxury services for which he never paid. These were just the latest of the 19-year-old’s stings to come to light. His frauds went on for years – despite the efforts of social workers, probation officers and the police – partly because his age prevented him being named in the press. Even a spell…

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The paedophile who murdered eight-year-old Sarah Payne has been caught poring over pictures of her in his jail cell. Evil Roy Whiting, 51, above, was found with a stash of ­photographs of victim Sarah and other little girls at his high-security prison. The sickening discovery will devastate Sarah’s mother Sara, who has fought a decade-long crusade against ­child-sex offenders after Whiting abducted and murdered her child. It will also fuel outrage over the monitoring of child murderers coming just weeks after James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables was recalled to prison over child porn ­allegations. The pictures of Sarah, below, were among photos of little girls di…

Source - BBC Armed raid suspects flee into Worthing school The suspected getaway car was abandoned in Mill Lane, High Salvington A pair of suspected armed robbers sparked a security alert when they ran into the grounds of a Worthing school following a robbery at a supermarket. Police arrested two men at The Vale School in Findon Valley after a hold-up at a Tesco store in Chichester. Sussex Police said pupils were "kept secure" whilst officers searched the school grounds. Earlier, two men armed with handguns held up a security van delivering cash to the supermarket. In a letter to parents, head teacher Tony Lovatt said: "Upon realising there were intruders on si…

The Government needs to place more emphasis on early intervention when it comes to identifying and dealing with potential young offenders, a group of MPs has said. A report by the cross-party Home Affairs Committee praised initiatives such as the Sure Start scheme but said efforts to prevent opportunities for crime needed to be improved. MPs urged early intervention when dealing with potential young offenders It also criticised the use of short custodial sentences, but conceded that the high level of breaches meant it was hard to advocate community service as an alternative. The committee, chaired by Keith Vaz, noted that the average cost to taxpayers of having a youn…

Jilted special constable used riot van to chase ex A jilted special constable who abused his position by chasing his former girlfriend in a police riot van has been sentenced to community service. Ryan Neil Harvey, of St Henry Street, Penzance, Cornwall, was on duty when he pulled the woman over for allegedly using a mobile phone last September. He then chased her for three miles, used the riot van to block her car and threatened to slash his wrists. Harvey, 30, had earlier been convicted of harassment by Plymouth magistrates. The court was told Harvey had also followed her in his own car over a three-week period and sent dozens of unwanted messages begging his ex…

A bungling thief has been caught after attempting to steal a laptop bag from a bar packed with off duty police officers celebrating a leaving party. Mark Jimenez, 46, of Cranberry Road, Fulham took the bag from a table in the Elk Bar in Fulham Broadway in the early evening in January 20. But as the drug user was sneaking out he was nabbed by one of the 40 off duty police officers at the party, who had seen the thief eyeing his colleagues' bags. Jimenez attempted to drop the laptop, but when he realised the pub was full of coppers he admitted to the theft and was arrested by uniformed officers.He was taken to Fulham Police station which is just yards from the Elk Bar. …

'Rat man' jailed for race offence at Peterborough. Source: BBC News A long awaited result, this man has been terrorising the local rail network for years, and it is good to see that he now joins his rat behind bars.

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A man has been warned he faces a custodial sentence after pleading guilty to possession of what prosecutors described as "extreme porn" at Mold Crown Court last week. Campaigners against the extreme porn law are now waiting with some concern to see what the court decides when the accused, Andrew Robert Holland, of Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Clwyd returns for sentencing in April. The case started out as high farce. Following a raid by North Wales police last summer, Holland was charged with two offences under ss.63-68 of the Criminal Justice Act 2008. The first charge centred on an allegation that he had in his possession a clip featuring human-animal sex. This was dropped aft…

A householder returned from work early to discover a Romanian family had moved into his home, a court heard. The man was astounded to find Mihai and Laura Dediu moving his belongings out of his cupboards while their young child looked on. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0ivC7t8oB i found this very strange in what this family done move in while the owner was away and how safe as a mop come home from holiday to find a family had moved in can he use force to remove them???

Faisal Aslam (25) of Clarendon Road, Whalley Range and Asim Khan (26) of Devon Street, Farnworth, were convicted of murder today, Friday 19 March 2010 at Manchester Crown Court Crown Square and jailed for life. http://www.policeoracle.com/news/30-Years-...lers_22606.html after reading this news it is a job well done by police to bring them to justice

Soham murderer Ian Huntley attacked by jail inmate Huntley was jailed for life in 2003 Soham murderer Ian Huntley is being treated in hospital after being attacked by a fellow inmate, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said. He is serving a life sentence at Frankland Prison in County Durham for the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002. Some reports suggested his throat had been slashed, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. In 2005 an inmate threw boiling water over Huntley at Wakefield Prison. Concealed remains A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: "A prisoner at HMP Frankland was assaulted by another prisoner …