UK Policing News

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/8533532.stm Cleveland Police force facing officer cuts to save cash The force currently has 1,727 officers and 197 PCSOs Dozens of police officers could be cut from the Cleveland force amid concerns it will have to find savings of up to £30m a year by 2015. Officer reductions in the "high double figures" may be necessary in the face of predicted low council tax revenue and dwindling grants from government. Cleveland Police Authority (CPA) is already planning to privatise some control room operations to save cash. However, the authority has pledged to protect front-line policing. Our challenge at Cleveland Po…

More than 17,000 days were lost last year due to injuries to officers – a rise of 11 per cent on the previous 12 months. Opposition MPs said more needed to be done to protect officers doing their duty but senior staff should also look at whether some of those injured could be brought in on light duties to free up others A total of 17,055 days were lost to injuries from assaults across police forces in England and Wales during 2008/09, compared to 15,338 the previous year, Home Office figures show. Figures in 2008 showed that the annual bill for officers on long-term sick was now running at £90 million a year. Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8534435.stm

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A good result for Lancashire Constabulary, any thoughts??

Dog death Pc 'too ill' for court The dogs died at the police headquarters at Sherwood Lodge A police dog handler accused of leaving two of his German Shepherds to die in his car was "too ill" to attend his first court hearing in Nottingham. Pc Mark Johnson faces one charge of causing unnecessary suffering after he allegedly left the police dogs in the back of his car on 30 June. The 40-year-old did not attend the short hearing in Nottingham earlier. The deaths happened on one of the hottest days of the year, when temperatures reached 29.3C (84.7F). Dog championship Mr Johnson was represented at Nottingham Magistrates' Court by his solicitor and a member of th…

A woman was murdered by a violent sex attacker who had been released from prison just nine months earlier, an inquest heard today. Anthony Rice was on licence at the Elderfield probation hostel in Winchester, Hampshire, when he killed Naomi Bryant after they met in the city, the inquest was told. Rice, 48, had been freed nine months earlier after serving 15 years of a 10-year minimum term imposed at the Old Bailey in 1989 for attempted rape. Anthony Rice was on licence at the Elderfield probation hostel in Winchester when he killed Naomi Bryant after they met in the city, the inquest was told A report by the chief inspector of probation released in 2006 said probatio…

These images show three British Muslims allegedly preparing for 'holy war' after forming a group named 'The Blackburn Resistance.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0gOMi36ED I had no idea the three on that video had been detained by our Police, WD on that account. The film footage when it came out on TV did anger me, the case continues.

A family home has been left in ruins after more than 50 yobs gatecrashed a party that had been advertised on Facebook. Rachel Ross, 15, had secretly organised a private gathering on the social networking website while her parents attended an overnight wedding. But trouble flared when more than 50 uninvited guests turned up at the semi-detached house in Wallasey, Merseyside, on Friday night. Trashed: Father-of-four Michael Ross returned to his Merseyside home to find it in ruins after his teenage daughter threw a party she had advertised on Facebook After one party-goer screamed 'Let's trash the house!' the yobs rioted and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage. …

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventr...ire/8411357.stm Has anyone heard of anything similar to this before?

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8529541.stm Dissident Republicans have detonated a car bomb outside the Court House in Newry, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Only a 5 minute warning was given and PSNI officers were in the process of evacuating nearby residents when it exploded.7 Thankfully no one was injured. This evil act of violence is a dark reminder that the threat from terrorism to the Uk and NI is not just from Muslim extremists, and that there are still people in NI and Ireland that want to return Northern Ireland to the dark past of bloody violence!

Updated on 19th February 2010 10:48 Police have released the image of a man who has been trying to stop motorists by posing as a police officer. An e-fit has been produced after speaking to those involved in three separate incidents in the last few weeks. At around 6.50pm on Thursday 21 January, a man stopped a woman motorist in Bottesford Lane, Orston after flashing his car lights at her to pull over. The woman, who was driving from Scarrington to Bottesford, pulled over and the man got out of his car and walked up to her vehicle. He claimed he was a police officer but could not produce any identification, so the woman drove off. After the force alerted the publ…

From today's Gaurdian; "Photographer films his own 'anti-terror' arrest" http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/21/p...i-terror-arrest Was detention really justified?