UK Policing News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8449253.stm When will the courts realise that most of today's shoplifters are not some hard up parent nicking a can of beans, they're stealing expensive perfumes, jackets etc, to sell on. The courts keep giving them bail and fines that they can pay out of the proceeds of their next theft. If they at least got community service it would cut down on their available shopping hours!

A HIGHLY visible police operation to tackle burglars coming into St Albans coupled with freezing weather has cut burglaries by 66 per cent. http://www.herts.police.uk/crimedatabase/s...article_id=7614

Two Charged Over Heathrow 'Bomb Hoax' A passenger has been charged with making a bomb threat that grounded a packed jet at Heathrow Airport. Robert Fowles, 58, from Dover, Kent, is accused of a bomb hoax and being drunk on an aircraft, the Metropolitan Police said. Alexander McGinn, 48, also from Dover, has also been charged with being drunk on an aircraft. Armed police boarded the Dubai-bound Emirates flight as it was taxiing for take off on Friday night, after remarks were made to cabin crew. Fowles will appear from custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday. The charges in detail are making a bomb hoax/communicate false information contrary to the Crimin…

Strathclyde Police are handing over intelligence on rogue firms to the Security Industry Authority (SIA) - leading to dozens of people losing their licences because of underworld links. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish...86908-21956124/ a job well done by the s.i.a. and the police

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yo...ire/8451749.stm A teenager who poured bleach over a woman at a restaurant in Leeds has been detained for 12 months.. That will teach him, almost blinding someone infront of their children in a pre meditated attack because they were shushed in the cinema. He wont be doing that again, for at least 3 months

A HIGHLY visible police operation to tackle burglars coming into St Albans coupled with freezing weather has cut burglaries by 66 per cent. Officers from the St Albans and Harpenden Safer Neighbourhood Teams and the Tactical Team supported the operation from Tuesday (January 5, 2010) to yesterday (Sunday January 10, 2010). St Albans Chief Inspector Richard Hann said: “For the past five years, St Albans has had a consistent increase in burglaries so we have been running an additional ‘ring of steel’ operation alongside our regular patrols and ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) to help deter offenders and, prevent and reduce burglaries in St Albans and Harpen…

OFFENDERS completing their court orders for 'Community Payback' helped clear the snow for elderly residents at Arthur Gibbens Court http://www.herts.police.uk/crimedatabase/s...d=7609brilliant idea!

See the story here. My big concern is that he is also a member of this forum. The question is, who is he...............................?? :ph34r:

A wealthy businessman was arrested at home in front of his wife and young son over an email which council officials deemed ‘offensive’ to gipsies – but which he had not even written. The email, concerning a planning appeal by a gipsy, included the phrase: ‘It’s the 'do as you likey' attitude that I am against.’ Council staff believed the email was offensive because ‘likey’ rhymes with the derogatory term ‘pikey’. The 45-year-old IT boss was held in a police cell for four hours until it was established he had nothing to do with the email, which had been sent by one of his then workers, Paul Osmond. But police had taken his DNA and later confirmed t…

Really? I'd have thought with crime figures supposedly falling faster than Berlusconi's trousers, they'd want us to discuss crime figures! Link.

Mouse nest found in London copper's paperwork 'A little embarrassed' by untidy desk By Lester Haines Posted in Bootnotes, 5th January 2010 11:26 GMT A South London copper has been described as "a little embarrassed" after discovering mice had taken up residence in paperwork on his Kennington desk. The rodent hideaway was exposed when pest control operatives were called in after staff "came across a number of mice at a police building", as an internal police report explains. A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said: "Some of the desks were so messy it was a wonder anyone could find anything. It got to the stage where mice droppings wer…

Britain's child crime wave is so bad that in some areas one youngster in every class will be caught by police - often for a serious offence such as robbery or a violent attack. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0be6ZJfQa And i suspect things will only get worse.

Myleene Klass has been warned by police that waving a knife at youths who had broken into her garden is illegal. The 31-year-old presenter had been home alone with two-year-old daughter Ava when she saw the teenagers attempting to break into her garden shed through her kitchen window. Myleene, who had been 'utterly terrified' according to her spokesperson, immediately called the police but quickly grabbed a kitchen knife to wave at the intruders in an attempt to scare them away. Shock: Myleene was 'utterly terrified' by the incident However, when police arrived at the property in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, they told Myleene that she should not have used the knife be…

A senior Derbyshire police officer has denied racially abusing a taxi driver in a row over 90p. Det Insp Gary Tomlinson, 47, kicked and punched Mohammed Anwar's taxi after he told him he had not paid the full fare, Chesterfield magistrates heard. Mr Tomlinson had taken a taxi home after a night out in Derby last July.He denies racially aggravated harassment and using threatening words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. Mr Anwar told the court the row started after he dropped Mr Tomlinson off at his home in Hartshorne. He said: "My passenger gave me £25 in a £20 note and a £5 note and then he opened the door. As he was making his way out I rem…

The 62-year-old collapsed on the forecourt of the Asda garage in Wrexham while refuelling his car at around 2000 GMT on Friday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8450076.stm