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A website called PleaseRobMe claims to reveal the location of empty homes based on what people post online. The Dutch developers told BBC News the site was designed to prove a point about the dangers of sharing precise location information on the internet. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8521598.stm People should be extremly careful what they post on Twitter and the like
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source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...der-Tories.html Metropolitan Police chief set to pick own team under Tories The Met Police Commissioner is set to be able to pick his own senior officers under plans by the Tories to cut the influence of politicians in selecting the leadership of the country's largest force. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor Published: 7:30AM GMT 17 Feb 2010 Scotland Yard Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson Photo: PA Chris Grayling, the shadow Home Secretary, and Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, said the head of Scotland Yard needs greater control over who he has around him and have pledged to review the system if the Tories …
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Steven Barker, the stepfather of abused infant Baby P has been scalded in an attack by a fellow prisoner. Another inmate at Wakefield prison, where Barker is serving his 12-year jail term, hurled boiling water at Barker, leaving him screaming in pain. Some reports claimed it had been a concoction of water and sugar, which sticks to the skin and intensifies burns in the same way as napalm bombs. But the Ministry of Justice today said no sugar had been involved. Barker who stands 6ft 4in, suffered excruciating burns to his face and arms and will be left scarred for life following the attack. Fellow inmates applauded as he was ambushed, according to The Sun. One told…
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A 21-year-old woman who made a false accusation of rape in a bid to claim thousands of pounds in compensation escaped a jail term today. Sarah-Jane Hilliard claimed Grant Bowers, 19, attacked her following a night out. Just over a week after making the allegations, she contacted the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, hoping to be awarded up to £7,500. A jury found her guilty of perverting the course of justice in May last year and she was today given a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for two years. Guilty: Sarah-Jane Hiliard was today handed a suspended jail sentence after she made a false accusation of rape Sentencing her at Basildon Crown Court in Essex,…
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Notts Chief Constable Julia Hodson is understood to have drafted in officers from other policing teams into CID over recent months after receiving an email from one detective constable saying he was so overworked and under supervised, and had not seen his wife and children for so long, that he was considering taking his own life. http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Not...il/article.html Overworkwed officers must be a really issue across the country,if this sort of thing is replicated across the Country than i for 1 cannot see how the Police can cut the numebr of officers, and still think they can cope.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8285952.stm 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 Creevy 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 orde…
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Source What an absoloute disgrace! I just don't understand why Police Officer's would do this, I really don't. Throwing your life away for a bit of cannabis. Idiots!
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Source: http://cms.met.police.uk/met/boroughs/eali...t_a_bit_special A new team of police constables has been set up to police the Town Centre in Ealing. Launched on Sunday 7th of February 2010, during National Specials Weekend, Ealing Broadway Town Centre Team works alongside regular police officers from Ealing Broadway Safer Neighbourhoods Team, in close association with Ealing Business Improvement District (BID), Retail Security and local authority. Made up entirely of 7 Ealing Special Constables, the Team tackles crime and anti-social behaviour in the city centre and two shopping malls. By doing so, the Team also helps the Ealing Broadway Safer Neighbourhoods T…
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A FORMER Lincolnshire police officer investigating the murders of Joan and John Stirland was warned to be careful who he spoke to in the Notts Police force the day after they died. Speaking at the inquest into the deaths of the couple, former Detective Superintendent Graham White said he was visited by two senior Notts Police officers, known as Officer D and Officer I on August 9, 2004. http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews...il/article.html Intresting article,iots quite alarming how just a few years ago, Notts Police had a massive probelm with corruupt officers, the postive steps the Force has made since then is testement to the work of the previous CC in rooting…
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/cri...and-safety.html A girl fighting for her life after a car she was travelling in plunged into an ice-cold river was not rescued for almost two hours because health and safety rules prevented police from entering the water. I cannot believe this article is true, if thou it is these health and safty rules need closer inspection. Can anyone hear honestly say that if they were standing at the bank of this water, you could hold yourself back from diving in?
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at first i thought it was a april fools joke in febuary .... quality!!! http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/P...agine_Equipment
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/busi...icle7029809.ece Two thirds of jurors do not understand what judges tell them about the law when they retire to consider their verdicts, according to a ground-breaking study into the secrets of the jury room. The findings will trigger an overhaul of the courts. Few surprises here i find. 1) "all-white juries do not discriminate against black defendants;" that kind of surprises me. 2)"Two thirds of jurors do not understand what judges tell them about the law when they retire to consider their verdicts," I thought that number would be higher, how many out there no anything about the law, and hence would probably not fully un…
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A broadcaster for the BBC's Inside Out programme smothered his ailing lover to spare him from "terrible pain". Police are investigating after the Nottingham film-maker said he had a pact with the deceased man to act if his suffering increased. During a documentary on death and dying, Ray Gosling, 70, said: "I killed someone once. He'd been my lover and he got Aids. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/notting...ire/8516499.stm What is remarkable about this story is it seems the Police were not aware of this incident, but noq they are because the BBC man has revelaed it to the whole Country.
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PC Ian Terry, 32, was gunned down holding an unloaded gun as Greater Manchester Police's firearms unit practised in a disused factory in June 2008. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0fcaczQRf it is a shame what happened with a sad loss of life when PC Ian Terry was gunned down during a firearms training exercise
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Police officers in Leicestershire are to display their full names on their uniform as part of a project to boost public trust. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicest...ire/8443432.stm Much better, now i trust the Police. And i expect to make sure the police can trust us MOP`s, we should be obliged to wear name tags too. I would have thought a certain amount of anonymity would be more conducive to to the job, but what do i know.
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