UK Policing News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8446402.stm The Metropolitan Police (Met) is to appeal against a ruling to force it to reveal how much is spent on informants. I swear to god, if i got something on anyone, i would grass them up, and no money will change hands. Yes, that would include my parent, wife, her sister, or my kid. "But Mr Graham rejected their arguments and said the public interest should be served by greater transparency in how taxpayers' money is spent." Who in the public cares that much? Who in the public has not other troubles that concern them far more then this piece of news? First thing i do each morning is, climb out of bed, and start a co…

A 22-year-old Metropolitan Police PCSO has earned the praise of senior officers at Wimbledon for the way he instigated the recovery of a large haul of what is believed to be cannabis. http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Met-PCSO-...-Car_21366.html

CSO Mike Knellar of Figges Marsh Safer Neighbourhoods Team, was on single patrol on a pedal cycle on Thursday 31 December, New Year's Eve. At about 16:15hrs, he was in Mulholland Close, Mitcham, when he passed a parked car with four youths sitting inside and smelt cannabis through the open car windows. He quickly turned round to approach the car and it drove off and disappeared. Mike called for police support via radio, giving details of the vehicle - a light blue 06 registered Ford Fiesta car. Using his extensive local knowledge, Mike went to a nearby estate where he believed the suspects may have gone. He saw the car parked in Moore Close. People were getting out of…

Here is a story that raises several issues; Royal watchers stunned as Sandringham officers swoop in and seize their cameras http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1238827/Royal-watchers-stunned-Sandringham-officers-swoop-seize-cameras.html#ixzz0b4PH8m0e "Norfolk Police admitted the Royal Family had not asked them to act and said the move had been a mistake" Will any action or investigation be taken or lessons be learned, or should the police be allowed to make mistakes without fear of repercussions from time to time?

Stewart Blackburn, 18, was convicted in December after a 10-day trial. His girlfriend Jessica McCagh, 17, died on 25 April after the attack at the Arbroath flat they shared. Judge Lord Bracadale, who imposed a life sentence with a minimum term of 21 years, said Jessica had suffered a "terrible death" at Blackburn's hands. He told the High Court in Edinburgh the evidence had shown there were three stages to the murder. "First, you threw petrol over her. Then you set fire to her," he said. "Once she was alight you did something of quite extraordinary cruelty: you held the door of the bedroom shut to prevent her escape. "Jessica McCagh was your girlfriend, aged 1…

nearly £1m from her branch during a five-year deception, the Old Bailey has heard. Ania Wadsworth, 28, "manipulated" accounts at Lloyds TSB in Golders Green to cover her tracks, it was alleged. She admits taking £870,000 but said it was under duress from her boyfriend. She has been charged with stealing £921,717 between 2002 and 2007, but insisted she did not take money during the whole of this five-year period. She was a woman who was trusted by everybody with whom she worked Mark Paltenghi, prosecutingMiss Wadsworth, from Waterloo Road in Archway, north London, often left work with bundles of notes totalling £25,000, prosecution lawyer Mark Paltenghi claimed…

A police officer gave a drug dealer information about operations in exchange for free cocaine for his wife, Southwark Crown Court has heard.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8441905.stm this person is a big fool to do this and to to give out Metropolitan Police's database details of planned operations, addresses, convictions and information and all to give his wife cocaine.and to honest, he put the lives of officers on the line by prewarning this person or police on under cover ops.

I have just watched the itv news and am somewhat confused. How far do these people who make others lives a misery have to go to be REALLY accountable for their actions. The chief constable of South Yorkshire saying you must put it in perspective. No one is being killed,yes that as may be but has he ever been on the recieving end of the abuse. It is time i think that we stop going soft on these people i.e ASBO's, and that punishment must reflect the crime.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-n...252-25525688/2/ A SELF-CONFESSED “firebug†who liked to watch things burn was today starting a five-year spell behind bars. After being arrested for torching a car and a string of wheelie bins Patrick Foy admitted starting blazes from the age of six. Jailing him Judge David Boulton said he was only “just persuaded†not to lock the 22-year-old up indefinitely for public protection. He added: “If I am wrong it is on my conscience. “If I am wrong a lot of people are going to suffer and not just you, but you will seriously harm someone in the future unless you do something about your drug taking and alcohol consumpti…

A mother on trial for the murder of her brain-damaged son had tried to kill him before, London's Old Bailey has heard. Thomas Inglis, 22, suffered "extremely serious" head injuries when he fell out the back of an ambulance in 2007. Frances Inglis, 57, of Dagenham, is accused of killing him in a care home in Hertfordshire in November 2008. Ms Inglis was on bail for his attempted murder when she allegedly carried out the attack. She denies both the murder and attempted murder of Mr Inglis. Miranda Moore QC, prosecuting, told the court Mr Inglis was not in a persistent vegetative state and that he was making progress. Jurors were told Ms Inglis had been training as a…

A man has died after being shot in the chest outside a block of flats in east London. Police received reports of gunfire outside Whyteville House, in Studley Road, Forest Gate, shortly after 0100 GMT on Wednesday. They found a man, believed to be in his 20s, suffering at least one bullet wound. He died later in hospital. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said five people had been arrested in surrounding streets. Family told They all remain in custody at separate east London police stations. The spokesman added that a post-mortem examination might take place later on Wednesday and the victim's family had been informed. Officers from the Met's Trident unit, which …

A torture victim allegedly murdered by his partner, her brother and her ex-lover had foul abuse daubed in nail varnish on his back, a court heard. Andrew Gardner had suffered multiple injuries Andrew Gardner, 35, was punched, kicked, and burnt in the weeks before his death at a house in Arthur Street, Chilton, Teesside Crown Court was told. Clare Nicholls, 28, Simon Nicholls, 24, and Steven Martin, 44, all of Arthur Street, Chilton, deny his murder. Mr Gardner was father to Ms Nicholls' youngest child. The jury was told Mr Gardner was frequently beaten and belittled, and had abuse written on his back for crying following one of the att…

A motorist suspected of drink driving has had charges of failing to provide a breath sample dropped in a case that could have implications for thousands of other drivers convicted of the offence. By Christopher Hope and Heidi Blake Published: 8:00AM BST 25 Jul 2009 A valve used on police station breathalyser machines. Leon De Jager, a 31-year-old IT consultant from north London, was astonished when he was charged with failure to provide a sample after blowing into a breathalyser machine exactly as was told by police. But the case was dropped after Driving Defences, a specialist road traffic law firm, proved that officers had incorrectly fitted a one-way valve int…