UK Policing News

The Metropolitan Police should ensure its officers are properly trained in public order policing, a report says. This is among several recommendations made by the Metropolitan Police Authority in a report into policing at the G20 protests in London last year. It also says disciplinary action should be taken against officers who do not display their identification numbers. The report comes after the death of Ian Tomlinson, who was pushed over by a policeman during the demonstrations. The Report by the MPA Civil Liberties Panel, entitled Post G20, investigated the Met's current public order policing strategies and will be presented to the full Authority for final ratificat…

a judge has slammed a family's 'reprehensible' behaviour for taking an £18,000 pay-off from a teacher who sexually abused their four-year-old son instead of notifying police. Paedophile Gerard Raffell, 42, walked free from court despite admitting repeated abuse of the child between 2004 and 2005 until his parents discovered his crimes. Shockingly, instead of reporting him to the police, they demanded £18,000 for a deposit on their new home in return for silence. Raffell left his job as a maths teacher, moved house and his offences only came to light four years later when the youngster spoke to others about what had happened. He pleaded guilty to four counts of causi…

BBC bosses have apologised today after a policeman who was shot dead during a training exercise was referred to as 'Mr Plod' in an item on the Six O'Clock News. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0idp36Xzn Tossers are our BBC. "Today coroner Nigel Meadows demanded a BBC executive attend the inquest to personally apologise to PC Terry's family. But none was able to make the 250 mile two hour trip to Manchester claiming there was 'difficulty' in coming up from London." Dear BBC, this is an idea, phone up Kenworthy, and ask for a lift, some kind of excuse is that. BBC you are a disgrace!!

Police officers have been banned from asking for 'Christian' names for fear of offending other religions. Officers taking down a suspect's particulars must now refer to their 'personal' or 'family name' as the word 'Christian' could offend Muslims, Sikhs and other faiths, according to new diversity guidelines. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0ia9oPrIq Yet another step in the wrong direction, who wrote these new diversity guidelines? Has anyone after a Officer has asked for their Christian name been told by said person, i do not have one, and i am now offended? And is anyone going to take any notice of this?

Officer injured by Nottingham hit and run moped rider A police community support officer was injured when he was hit by a moped on a footbridge in Nottinghamshire. The officer was crossing the bridge at Vernon Road in Old Basford when a rider on a dark-coloured moped drove into him. The rider failed to stop and left the scene. The officer had suffered cuts and bruises but was otherwise unhurt. A police spokesman said it was treating the incident seriously. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/notting...ire/8577686.stm

A five-year-old Sussex boy took his parents' car for a drive before crashing it into a wall. Sussex Police said the youngster managed to drive the automatic Mitsubishi Shogun about four miles on roads east of Chichester. Officers were alerted at 0700 GMT by a man who reported seeing a small boy at the wheel of the vehicle. His father also contacted police minutes later. The boy was found unharmed in the vehicle in Pook Lane, Lavant. Other damage Police subsequently received reports of three other vehicles which were damaged by the Shogun, two of which were parked. Witnesses reported seeing the vehicle being driven slowly, but erratically, early on Thursday. Dr…

Source: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/new...olice_after_pub Cop 'ditched car and fled police after pub' Katie Storey March 17, 2010 A cop driving home from the pub abandoned his car and fled from a police officer – sparking a helicopter search, a court heard. PC Daniel Adams, 21, was spotted in his Volkswagen Polo driving along a country lane at 11.45pm by traffic patrol officer PC Jon Scott after reports that drink-drivers had left the Church Inn, in Uppermill, Oldham, the court heard. The officer followed the car but when they reached a nearby cemetery, PC Adams abandoned his vehicle and fled into the graveyard, leaving two female passengers behind. P…

Eight drug dealers are behind bars after police smashed a huge cocaine supply network. They were jailed for between nine and two-and-a-half years at Minshull Street Crown Court and a ninth was due to be sentenced today. .The men, who all admitted conspiracy to supply class A drugs, were brought to justice following a huge undercover police operation. The gang was caught red-handed in March, with cops finding two kilos of cocaine and a blender to 'cut' the drug at a house in Miles Platting. After they were jailed, Det Chf Insp John Ogden, of the Serious Crime Division of Greater Manchester Police, said: “Our investigation unearthed a lucrative and widespread criminal…

Source: The BBC Now, he must have a mighty penis for her to take evasive action.

Police spend only a third of their time on the beat, official figures reveal. A report into value for money for taxpayers also found that just 13 per cent of their time is dedicated to investigating crime. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0iWj3kb7W Do these figures feel right?

The way the police in England and Wales deal with complaints of anti-social behaviour has been strongly criticised by the chief inspector of constabulary. Denis O'Connor said the failure to properly record and tackle incidents undermined confidence in the police, and called for urgent improvements. His comments came as the inspectorate published "report cards" on the performance of 43 forces. Nottinghamshire and Greater Manchester received the lowest grades. Nottinghamshire also recorded the highest rate of violent assaults. The inspectorate found the way police databases logged information about reports of harassment, vandalism and verbal abuse was "inadequate".…

Police have reopened an investigation after amazing footage emerged of a lorry careering at 60mph along a motorway with a car trapped sideways The video shows a trucker thundering along the A1(M) near Wetherby, West Yorkshire, seemingly oblivious to the car under its cab. The lorry is filmed by another motorist for several seconds, with sparks flying from the blue Renault Clio. The haulage company - Arclid Transport - has confirmed that the video is not a hoax and that the lady driver in the Clio "got out and walked away". An incident did happen along that stretch of the motorway and we opened an investigation and reported the matter to the police. Having seen the …

An Essex Police sergeant diagnosed with breast and lung cancer is preparing to run her 18th marathon in aid of charity. Kirste Snellgrove is in training for the gruelling Virgin London Marathon to raise money for Breast Cancer Campaign after being diagnosed with the illness herself in May 2005. Kirste endured chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery and is now trialling a new drug thanks to funding from the charity. The drug has proved successful at fighting tumours in laboratory conditions and, if successful in treating Kirste, could help thousands of women undergoing treatment for breast cancer in the UK. Kirste was recently diagnosed with lung cancer but refused to l…

A man who took money from people in an attempt to arrange for them to avoid prosecution for speeding has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and has been disqualified from driving for 15 months. Six others have also been sentenced. Simon Weston-Brown, aged 39 from Adrian Road, Abbots Langley pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice after falsifying Notices of Intended Prosecutions for others' speeding fines by providing fictitious names. He was sentenced at St Albans Crown Court on Friday 12 March. A further six people, who had dealt with Weston-Brown in attempting to avoid their speeding fines, pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and were g…