UK Policing News

Frustrated police officers say they are wasting hours every day battling with a "nightmare" computer system just to get paid, when they should be out on Bristol's streets catching criminals. http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/catchi...il/article.html bristol police must get frustrated in not being out on the streets.

Bristol Evening Post You should also read the comments from serving offices after the article was published at the bottom of the page....!!

Sometimes I think we don't half shoot ourselves in the foot. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...HAIRDRYERS.html I know it's not as big a deal as the Daily Wail is making out, but have we really done ourselves any favours invoking anti terror legislation on something that just doesn't warrant it?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8479845.stm Video on the link reporting. To add to the story - The video says that a British company is cashing in by manufacturing Stab vests. Ridiculous, really. If a mod could move this to "Real World" it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Story link A homeless man has been jailed for 21 months for threatening an officer with a plastic toy gun.Vilmars Leidums, aged 40, was drunk and slumped against a wall in Cowper Street, The Mounts on November 3. Northampton Crown Court heard how he asked Pc Steven Roth for 20 pence and was advised to move on. Alex Bull, prosecuting said: "It was 4.50pm and he appeared to be drunk when he called out to Pc Roth and asked him for some money. "He repeated the request and placed his right arm out in a begging gesture. "The officer was about to move away when the defendant reached inside his jacket pocket and pulled out what appeared to be a small hand gun. The officer wa…

Source: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/art...lice-station.do A senior judge has attacked the “ethos of sexual banter and impropriety†at a London police station. Judge Michael Gledhill said he was shocked by the “torrid atmosphere†among young Police Community Support Officers at Belgravia. He also criticised the lack of supervision of the officers, employed to carry out anti-terror patrols in central London. The criticism comes nearly a year after an internal Scotland Yard investigation found evidence of racist bullying among PCSOs at the same station. The judge made the comments in the trial of John Parker, 19, of Orpington, who was accused of grabbin…

A group of Jewish volunteers who have set up their own patrols in north London are putting themselves at risk, police have said. not a good thing at all :angry http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8477471.stm http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/photos.php?...430352715793889 in the photo they 1 of the men has a police stab vest on. Shomrim Stamford Hill Apprehend Car Burglar (David Braun - London UK) > Picture

A haul of drugs and mobile phones was intercepted being smuggled into a top-security jail - hidden inside food cans. The baked beans and soup tins contained contraband which would be worth thousands of pounds inside HMP Frankland - which houses Soham monster Ian Huntley. It included heroin, cocaine, bricks of cannabis, amphetamines, Subutex painkillers, 13 mobiles, 24 SIM cards, phone charger cables - and three tins of neat alcohol. They were packed in a sealed prison bag delivered by courier and made to look as if they were for a lag who had been transferred from Manchester. But suspicious officers at Frankland, in Co Durham, X-rayed the package. An insider said "Of…

As per the title can the Police not do anything about the company/guy behind this scam? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/mi...0651&st=cse This scam is actually putting lives at risk, also check out the cash involved. regards

Greater Manchester Police has arrested more than 600 burglars, robbers and thieves in four days this week in its first major clampdown of the New Year. High impact enforcement activity on all divisions across the Force has seen officers making almost 100 raids on properties of suspected criminals. The crackdown is part of Operation Storm that was set up last June to support divisions in reducing burglaries and increasing convictions. The raids have also resulted in the arrest of a dozen drug dealers and the closure of four cannabis farms. Drugs with an estimated value well in excess of £50,000 have been recovered. To date when comparing figures from 1 April last ye…

In regards to the thread about an article on a newspapers website from a few days ago. Me being me, I decided to e-mail the editor in regards to their mistake in what they said about specials. The original thread is here: Local Paper Comment Here is the reply I had from the editor

A teenage Laura Ashley shop assistant was stabbed to death on an unlit, isolated canal footpath last night by a thief who rifled through her handbag before fleeing. A major murder hunt was underway today after the blood-covered 19-year-old woman was discovered sprawled on the towpath by a jogger at 8pm. Eye-witnesses said that she was lying face down and had suffered multiple stab wounds to her head and body. The contents of her handbag were strewn nearby. The jogger dialled 999 on his mobile phone and police and paramedics rushed to the scene beneath a road bridge alongside the River Kennet on the outskirts of Reading. The woman's body was discovered under the A33. …

Police launched a dramatic late-night city centre swoop to arrest a gunman. http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4868814.Her..._tackles_gunman isee in the paper the third policeman ignored the danger to his own life and bravely rugby tackled the gunman to the ground.