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Two terror suspects won a High Court ruling today that paves the way for the first compensation claims against the Home Secretary relating to control orders. 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. A judge formally quashed all the orders today and opened the way for the men to claim damages for a period dating back to 2006, when the first orders restricting their movements were imposed. But Mr Justice Silber, sitting at London's High Court, cautioned that today's ruling did not automatically mean they would succeed on all their liability claims against the Home Secre…

Policeman slides down snowy hill on riot shield A policeman was spotted sliding down a snow-covered hill while sitting on top of his riot shield. Published: 7:30AM GMT 14 Jan 2010 A passer-by filmed the officer being pushed off the top of the slope by laughing colleagues and posted it on website YouTube. Three officers are seen laughing as the policeman goes over the edge and slides 100 yards into a ditch. In the video the policeman is filmed sitting at the edge of the slope in a park, trying to launch himself off before two colleagues walk over and give him a push. Their police riot van is seen parked just a few hundred feet away. Onlooker "rickyboyoxford" put the…

They call him Laptop. But as Britain's smallest PC, Robin Port has heard all the jokes before. At just 5ft tall in his police boots, he has learned that it helps to have a towering sense of humour. The 29-year-old constable has made an impressive 17 arrests in his first month on the beat for the Devon and Cornwall force. Small but effective: Britain's shortest ever police officer Pc Robin Port with his supervisor Inspector Matt Lawler (who is 6ft) Which is evidence enough that this former soldier has what it takes to fight crime. 'I am very confident I can hold my own,' he said. 'I have martial arts training so I don't see myself as more at risk than any othe…

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...e-officers.html Under the pilot project, Sikh police officers act as go-betweens, offering support to victims and advising investigating officers on cultural issues deemed important to solving crimes. The Metropolitan Police, which is running the scheme, said they would encourage staff associations representing other minority groups, such as Muslims, Hindus and Jews, to follow suit if detection rates were seen to benefit Black people and homosexuals may also be entitled to ask for an officer of the same ethnicity or sexuality. But rank and file police officers have reacted angrily to the new policy, calling it "po…

A Royal Mail manager who stole cash from children's birthday cards to fund a lavish lifestyle was jailed for six months yesterday. David Baker, 47, stole notes and even coins from envelopes which were destined for youngsters - then threw the cards in the bin. He is believed to have stolen thousands during his 23-year career. The sorting office manager targeted colourful envelopes he knew would contain money being sent as gifts to children and ripped them open to take cash and gift tokens. Baker was eventually caught after officials became suspicious and sent an undercover investigator to his sorting office to watch him work. The night he was arrested he was caught wi…

An elderly woman from the Aberdeen area has been cheated out of £24,000 in a Euromillions lottery scam, police said. The woman, who is in her 70s, was persuaded to contact a phone number after receiving a letter telling her she had won a major Euromillions prize. Grampian Police warned it was the latest in a long line of frauds to have hit the north east, which have ranged from fake shares to cloned websites. It described the scam as a cruel fraud perpetrated against a vulnerable woman. The woman parted with the money in two instalments, after receiving a letter claiming she had won a substantial prize in the Euromillions Lottery. 'Sophisticated scam' When she c…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8453878.stm Police powers to use terror laws to stop and search people without grounds for suspicion are illegal, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. I cannot comment as i have no knowledge on this matter, it just looks an important aspect of Policing.

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. A pump-action shotgun and a rifle were found at the address in Antonio Street as well a significant amount of what is believed to be a Class A drug. Eight people, aged between 15 and 75, were arrested following the raids. An 18-year-old man from Walton was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, possession of a Section 1 firearm and possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply. A 15-year-old boy and a 48-year…

A spokesman for British Transport Police confirmed the 8.30am Arriva passenger service from Manchester Piccadilly to Milford Haven was involved in a collision at 10.34am. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0cskUEeuM why dont people take more care at level crossings??

MBaby X", Det Sgt Harry Keeble's account of his years working for the Hackney child protection team until 2006, is published this week. Keeble is a pseudonym adopted at the insistence of the Metropolitan Police.et D.S.'s account of harrowing 5 years working for a child protection team is published this week...http://www.policeoracle.com/ just a sad story to read.

Home Secretary 'furious' as Somali who hid WPC Sharon’s killer is allowed to stay in the UK...http://www.policeoracle.com/ this is a Outrage that they let this man stay

To the casual observer, there was little to distinguish the Java Bean internet cafe in Wembley from the hundreds of others dotted around the capital. But to surveillance officers staking it out month after month, this unremarkable venue was the key to busting a remarkable and sophisticated network of cyber criminals. From the bank of computers inside, a former pizza bar worker ran an international cyber "supermarket" selling stolen credit card and account details costing the banking industry tens of millions. Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, was revealed today as the founder and a major "orchestrator" of the secret ­DarkMarket website, where elite fraudsters bought and sold p…