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Police Officer And PCSO Sentenced20-Feb-10 Suspended prison sentences for the officers following a covert Professional Standards drugs investigation.... A former Thames Valley Police officer and a former Police Community Support Officer (PSCO) have been sentenced for drug related offences. PC Matthew Alan Kille, aged 31, and PCSO Lisa Margaret Slavin, aged 21, both formerly based at Slough police station, appeared before Swindon Crown Court yesterday. PC Kille was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, for each of the following counts: one count of wilful misconduct in a public office by seeking to obtain controlled drugs, one count of misconduct …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8534435.stm I'm sure this will spark off a healthy debate ! ! The guys in the video seem pretty well trained, some of the door staff on my patch don't know what the right hand is going from the left. Still not sure if im in support of it, something to me says this will aggravate situations more than calm them down.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/8532317.stm If he wasn't a repeate offender it would be amusing. As it is, a rather dissapointing sentence I feel. I like to think that when he was pulled over he said something like "I know the chief of police I'll have you know!"

Dissident republicans are being blamed for the firing of a suspected mortar bomb at a police station in Northern Ireland. The mortar attack is the latest in a series of incidents in Craigavon The missile missed the police barracks at Craigavon, Co Armagh. No one was injured. The attack comes almost a year after police officer Stephen Carroll was shot dead by the Continuity IRA not far from the police station. The suspected mortar attack is the latest in a series of incidents linked to republican terrorists. On Monday night a 250lb car bomb caused damage to the wall and security hut at Newry courthouse, Co Down. A peaceful and democratic path to Irish unity exis…

A former pub landlord yesterday became the first person to be jailed in connection with the smoking ban. Nick Hogan, 43, was sentenced to six months in prison for refusing to pay a fine imposed for flouting the legislation. Two years ago Hogan, who ran two pubs in Bolton, became the first landlord convicted of breaking the law for allowing his customers to routinely light up in his bars. Nick Hogan was the first person to be prosecuted under the new smoking laws. He will spend six months in prison after refusing to pay a fine A judge fined Hogan, of Chorley, Lancashire, £3,000 and ordered him to pay £7,236 in costs after finding him guilty of four charges under…

A ONE-MAN crime wave single-handedly pushed a town's crime statistics up so much it became the burglary capital of Britain. </H2>Police say Michael Craig, 19, is largely responsible for putting Burnley, Lancs, at the top of the break-in league table. Earlier this month the Home Office revealed the borough had more burglaries per head of population than any other town or city in the country with 2,154 break-ins in a single year — a rate of 24.6 per 1,000 people. Craig was today starting a three year prison sentence, under the Government's "three strikes and out rule" for serial offenders, after he notched up his 101st conviction — but cops believe he's behind…

A woman who found a 700-year-old coin in her garden as a child has become the first person to be convicted of failing to hand in suspected treasure. Kate Harding, 23, was prosecuted under the Treasure Act after she ignored orders to report the rare find to a coroner. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...l#ixzz0gkX4hnuI i wonder how many people would think to report it the find in there garden and i did not know there was a treasure act.

BBC Give me strength, I'm English and this is NOT racist. What has the UK come to?

A Sikh police officer who was told to remove his turban during riot training has won his discrimination case against Greater Manchester Police. An employment tribunal ruled Gurmeal Singh, 31, will receive compensation after being subject to "indirect discrimination" and harassment. In a long-running dispute with the force, a sergeant said: "Can you take that thing off?" the tribunal heard. Judge Murray Creed said this was a "violation" of his "dignity". Pc Singh, who is based at Wythenshawe Police Station, had already told his superiors that he would not remove the turban on religious grounds, but was ordered to do the riot training course while off work with stress…

In 2009 the UK Border Agency (UKBA) specialist immigration crime teams, working with 300 seconded police officers, prosecuted more than 2,200 people for organised immigration crimes including human trafficking, fraud and drug smuggling. Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas, speaking this week at the European Serious Organised Crime conference, confirmed the UKBA as one of the country’s largest law enforcement bodies. Migrants who come to the UK enter into a deal to play by the rules. Overseas criminals who break that pact and damage local communities will find UKBA officers using immigration powers to tackle them. Phil Woolas said: "Smugglers, forgers, traff…

In this months sickening episode, we had workmen dig up a woman's body, age 18-30 years old. http://www.bbc.co.uk/crimewatch/appeals/20...ws_murder.shtml The comment by the presenter is " We don`t know who this woman is, or when she was murdered but somewhere out there is a family who have lost a love one. So my problem is, how comes this family has not come forward in the past? This is one i find very strange.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgo...est/8484978.stm An Ayrshire businessman says he has been fined by the police for blowing his nose while driving. Michael Mancini, from Prestwick, said he was sitting in stationary traffic with the handbrake on when he used a tissue to clean his nose. He claimed he was waved over by four police officers and given a fixed penalty for not being in proper control of his car. He has refused to pay the £60 fine and the case may now proceed to court. The 39-year-old, who runs a furniture restoration business in Ayr, said: "The traffic was nose to tail in the high street and the traffic stopped and I thought that was quite a g…

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I saw a story related to this yesterday: http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/section...47&iid=9375 I don't know enough in detail but I would have thought their Special's would have been ideal for this? As an ex-special, if it came to my local force I'd think about it.

Vandals slashed the tyres of more than 40 cars in one night. Residents in several streets in Rochdale woke to find their cars had been targeted by the thug. The vehicles were parked in Rooley Moor Road, Emma Street, Edenfield Road, Viking Street and Molyneux Street. One victim, Louis Blank, was left stranded and late for visiting his wife at North Manchester General Hospital. He found that his Ford Mondeo parked outside his home in Molyneux Street had had both it's offside tyres slashed. Mr Blank was forced to put his car in the garage for emergency replacements. He said: "I visit my wife everyday. She was taken into hospital in December with Sepsis, a type of blood…