UK Policing News

Body of missing teenager found in defendant's garden next to body of murder victim, jury hears Peter Tobin, serving life for rape and murder, denies second murder... http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Convicted...ager_21023.html

More drivers are using hand-held mobile phones than before tougher penalties were introduced two years ago, the Transport Research Laboratory has said. It found 2.6% of car drivers used hand-held phones in 2006 - when fines rose to £60 and three points could be added to licences - compared with 2.8% now. Phone-using drivers are four times more likely to crash, the TRL added. Ministers say work continues to highlight the dangers. The TRL study involved more than 14,000 vehicles. The report's authors believe there is no reason to think the picture at the 30 sites studied in London is not the same right across the UK. Researchers said the 2.6% of car drivers using…

If ever there was a lighter side to crime, this is it... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...jars-month.html

I had passed my Assessment day in June 09 and was told I had my Final interview in Sept then got told its moved right. Had a letter today from Lancs recruitment stating they have closed all applications for those who applied Feb 09 onwards & were sorry. They have said they are probably recruiting this time next year but my AC Score runs out after 12 months, you just feel all the waiting, taking time off work for the AC day and research done for nothing! Recruitment said its come from senior officers. I'm in a good job and enjoy it but wanted to give this a shot, its made me think though how much is wrong with the recruitment process and getting messed about.

Police have arrested 576 people, charged 165 and detained two of the most wanted men in Greater Manchester in the space of 24 hours. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8405317.stm Have the Police got enough room for this lot? You will need to build a small town. :clapping: :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy:

The machine, plus an encryption key to unlock highly sensitive files, vanished from the heart of the MoD's London lets hope they find it soon and and the person who lost it what a dope and works for the R.A.F. http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Police-Hu...ptop_21010.html

How do the police know that the thieves are middle-class? Is this based on what items are stolen? The list of items given in the report would seem to be the things anyone would steal. However, the shoplifting highlights another sad reflection on the consumer society where people have been made to believe that ownership of material goods will make them happy, and turns ordinary folk into debtors and thieves. http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.

From Peterborough Evening Telegraph. http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/Of...aton.5904982.jp A sad end to a career really.

Man dies in police car collision A man has died in a collision involving a police car and a Renault Clio in County Antrim. It happened on the Ballybogey Road, between Ballymoney and Portrush, at about 0400 GMT on Thursday. A 29-year-old man who was also in the car has been taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries. The incident has been referred to the Police Ombudsman, who has appealed for a lorry driver who was in the area at the time to contact their office. The road has been closed and diversions have been put in place. SDLP assembly member John Dallat said the death was a "tragedy". "All road deaths are tragic and regrettable, but one in the run-up…

"The expected protection of schools, hospitals and the police from swingeing budget cuts represents a victory of the three Cabinet ministers in charge of those spending departments – Ed Balls, Andy Burnham and Alan Johnson. But their total departmental budget is not guaranteed as Mr Darling will want some non-essential cuts to be made in parts of the Home Office and Schools and Health departments. " http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/finance...d-fairness.html It appears from early statements made today before the PBR that the Police along with other front line services will have there budgets protected!!!! Be interesting to see the actual outcome but initially looks g…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8388641.stm Emmm....what? The bulk of the story speaks for itself but the Garda policing NI? Why stop there, lets bring in the RCMP (although to police in NI they'll have to drop the "royal" prefix) then we can get in the NYPD and after that the German police could have a go! What a load of tosh! But still, it's nice to know he doesnt have a problem with dissidents....lets see if he still thinks that when he's having to dive for cover some day!

Although the issue of photography in a public place or the photographing or filming of the police or PCSOs has been discussed here before, as a photographer and photographer rights advocate who along with many others keep a keen eye on this forum, it is rather concerning that many do not know the law and continue to harass and threaten photographers going about their lawful business citing "make it up as you go along" laws or by abusing anti-terrorism laws. In spite of much discussion in the media, upheld complaints against the police and public embarrassment it appears that many officers on the street have really not gotten the message that photography in a public plac…

Police officers are furious after being told they were not allowed to order replacement toilet paper or change lightbulbs at two privately-built 'super-stations'. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0ZKjHLoWk It appears our boys and girls in blue, cannot be trusted with anything. :lol: :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: BTW, if you need a form and fill it out in order to acquire loo paper, can you not use the form instead?

Explain this one then. .......................................... Police have released dramatic CCTV footage of a teenager pointing a gun at the head of a man outside a pub in Manchester. The 43-year-old came out of the premises to check his wife was OK after hearing a series of gunshots. Unfazed, the man wrestled the gun away and was unhurt. The incident happened in May. Nineteen-year-old James Drewitt from the Longsight area of Manchester was sentenced to a minimum of three years in prison for the crime Source Yet the Ex-Soldier who handed in a Shotty he found, to keep it off the streets is facing 5 years :D http://www.policespecials.com/forum/index....t…