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Home Office advises Police to break the law Spectacularly poor guidance could cost forces dear By John Ozimek Posted in Policing , 19th January 2010 11:36 GMT Free whitepaper – The top 10 reports for managing vulnerabilities Home Office advice to Police Forces in the UK is wrong in law and likely to leave cash-strapped police authorities incurring some very large legal bills over the coming months. That was the view given to El Reg today by Matthew Ryder, a barrister specialising in police powers and human rights. Following the recent ruling by the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights that s44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/uk…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8464885.stm I particularly like how they will improve things by "increasing their detection rate". Is that an improvement or is that just playing the statistics game? As for more police on the street, does anyone know how this will be achieved? I guess without recruitment (obviously, as it's a 90 day plan) then it will be moving officers away from specialist teams to front-line duties? Surely this will hit their 'superb record with large scale crimes' and is like robbing Peter to pay Paul?

A controversial judge allowed a violent thug to walk free from court despite admitting the public thought judges were 'going mad' for passing soft sentences Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0d513YJpg the judges are to soft on thugs

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. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0d54cWvVV bring back the death penalty this murderer

A furious father murdered his three children in an arson attack at their home after he accused their mother of flirting with a taxi driver, a court heard today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0d52KVE6H

A furious father murdered his three children in an arson attack at their home after he accused their mother of flirting with a taxi driver, a court heard today. Kevin Hargreaves, 37, flew into a rage at the children's mother when they returned home and then attempted to set himself alight with petrol, the court was told. The blaze spread from the bedroom and rapidly engulfed the three-storey detached property in Beswick, Manchester, last July, a jury at Manchester Crown Court heard. John Hargreaves, eight, and his step-brother Jordan Swift, 14, died after they became trapped in a top-floor bedroom. Jordan's 19-year-old sister, Carly, also died after she dashed back in…

A teenage girl was knocked down and killed by a car driver seconds after police began pursuing him because he was not wearing a seatbelt. Seconds earlier, the same car had sped off after a marked patrol car switched on its lights in a bid to attract the driver's :sad: :sad: story Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0czzEA5BB

A teenage girl was knocked down and killed by a car driver seconds after police began pursuing him because he was not wearing a seatbelt. Jessica Harrison, 17, died when a Ford Escort mounted the pavement and struck her. Seconds earlier, the same car had sped off after a marked patrol car switched on its lights in a bid to attract the driver's attention. Officers had earlier noticed that the car's driver was not wearing a seatbelt. The teenager was taken to hospital with a serious head injury after the incident on Sunday lunchtime but died later that evening. Tonight two men, aged 22 and 24, were being quizzed on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving in t…

I received this artical via a tweet and found it really interesting.  How can a child be beaten to death, yet no one is jailed for murder? - The Guardian http://bit.ly/68zf43 it's a reminder to me why I want to be paediatric nurse and a special with MSC. I can't assume I will be involved in cases such as this but I can't read something like this and turn off the computer, turn the page or change the channel. If I only play a small part in preserving and protecting life, young or old, I will go from this life happy. There are details of physical child abuse within the artical.

I think this would be the correct section. But i was just reading the paper and a saw this story, "A CACHE of weapons including crossbows and HARPOONS was allegedly found at the home of a support cop yesterday. Police also took away bags said to contain a range of imitation firearms and a sword. They swooped after Daniel Williams, 21, posted a snap of himself on Facebook clutching two handguns in an assassin stance copied from video game Hitman. He even dressed as the suit-wearing gunman Agent 47 and also posed with what seemed to be a sniper rifle. The community support officer's page suggested wife Katie - who he married last year - had left him. And it carried…

Two guns have been seized from a house in Bootle along with a quantity of ammunition during raids by police. The weapons were recovered as part of an investigation by police after a shooting at a house on Cherry Lane, Walton, Merseyside, on 8 January. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8459312.stm and A 15-year-old boy and a 48-year-old woman, both from Walton, were arrested on suspicion of possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.

Man shot dead in Asda car park in Glasgow Police said no-one else was injured in the shooting A 28-year-old man has been shot dead outside a supermarket in north Glasgow. BBC Scotland understands the victim is Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll, who allegedly had links to organised crime. Strathclyde Police said the man died at the scene after being shot in the Asda car park in Saughs Road, Robroyston, at about 1325 GMT. It is believed that those responsible made off from the scene in a black or dark coloured car. No-one else was injured during the shooting. The area has been cordoned off. Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the attack to contact them. Det Sup…

A chief constable wants shoplifters to be punished in special shopping centre courts. Petty criminals would be hauled before magistrates who would hand out fines, community punishments or even jail. The courts would be based inside major shopping outlets, such as Manchester's Arndale Centre. Greater Manchester Chief Constable Peter Fahy said 'radical thinking' was needed to speed up the way police and courts dealt with prisoners. As well as a courtroom, a mini-police station with cells could also be set up among the shops. It follows a crackdown on the use of £80 on-the-spot fines for shoplifters by the Government. They can now only be used in limited circumstance…

When heavy snow at Robin Hood airport in Doncaster, northern England, threatened to ruin Paul Chambers' plans to fly to Ireland, he vented his frustration by tapping out a message on the social networking site. now the joke is on him arrested :clapping http://uk.news.yahoo.com/

The two men, known as AF and AE, say the orders made against them were unlawful and they were entitled to damages from human rights violations Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0czKWy519 the Human Rights Legal Money-Go-Round rolls on and on