UK Policing News

Source Female police officers posing as sex workers have arrested 50 kerb crawlers in the past two weeks in a clampdown on street prostitution in Hull. Police said it was the first operation of its kind conducted in the city as part of a new "zero tolerance" policy. Those arrested for soliciting will be sent to specialist education programmes designed to change their behaviour. Sex workers will be guided to agencies which can help them leave the trade, Humberside Police said. Officers also hope to reduce the danger of young people being lured into the sex trade. A force spokesman said undercover officers would continue to be deployed to gather evidence against o…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8383360.stm ******************************************* Man shone laser beams at police Richard Wakeman was described as a "loner but not a trouble-maker" A man who endangered a police aircraft by repeatedly shining a laser beam at it over a built-up area, has been given suspended jail terms. Richard Wakeman, 25, of The Cloisters, Fareham, Hampshire, was arrested after police tracked the source of the beam. Prosecutors said his actions could have proved fatal. Wakeman, who admitted the offences, was given nine-month and three-month suspended terms and ordered to do 150 hours community service. He was also ordered …

Complaint on G20 death 'cover-up' Ian Tomlinson died after he was hit with a baton by a police officer The family of Ian Tomlinson has made a fresh complaint to the Independent Police Complaints Commission about a police "cover-up" following his death. Mr Tomlinson, 47, died after he was struck with a baton and pushed to the ground by a police officer during G20 protests in London on 1 April. His stepson Paul King, 26, has raised a series of examples which he claims show the public were misled after the death. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said they were unable to comment. One officer has already been questioned on suspicion of manslaughter. The family made …

this is a good bit of police work to clean up the city of hull do you think that this should happen in all large towns ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/8386072.stm

A middle-aged man with a sexual fetish for farm waste was sent to prison after a breaching a restraining order that banned him from being around a farm he has terrorised for years. David Truscott, 40, was arrested after he broke into a farm he targeted, and covering himself in slurry, before masturbating, The Telegraph reports. He was caught in the act and arrested by police. The incident in the early hours of 9 November happened weeks after Truscott was released from jail after serving a 16-week sentence for similar offences. Truscott was sentenced to three years in 2005 after he pleaded guilty to setting three fires on the same farm. This destroyed facilities and kil…

Women have seen the man, either completely naked or naked from the waist down, exposing himself on towpaths and riverside roads. odear in this cold weather will you want to run after him ?? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8386167.stm

Mr Street was convicted of rape in 1999 but there was no evidence he had abused children why do people make up up there minds thinking he was a paedophile.and tortured him now they are all doing life.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8380937.stm

POLICE officers should visit members of the public who have complained about minor issues and make personal apologies, the chairman of the Association of Police Authorities has said this week. Rob Garnham told delegates at the APA's annual conference on Wednesday that the organisation was working with the Independent Police Complaints Commission to create a new system that would make it easier for the public to complain and give feedback about the police service. Mr Garnham said: 'I want to work with the IPCC as colleagues in a position of trust rather than with suspicion, to deliver a new complaints system that gives the public the redress they want. 'Let's end the si…

Source: Liverpool Echo Sounds nasty. Not much detail on this incident yet, I shall post any updates that appear :D

An investigation has been launched after the death of a motorcyclist following a crash with an ambulance car, police said. The biker, a man in his 30s, died in hospital after the accident in Taunton, Somerset. He was involved in a collision with a rapid response vehicle travelling in the opposite direction which was attending a 999 report of a cardiac arrest. The ambulance car had its flashing blue lights and sirens on at the time of the crash on the B3227 from Norton Fitzwarren towards Cotford St Luke shortly after 5.30pm on Friday. Another ambulance, which was also en route to the cardiac arrest incident, stopped shortly after the accident to help. The biker was ta…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/30/k...ecution-service Service should be more open with the public and less reliant on paper case files, says Keir Starmer QC Seems like the way to go, but in truth i have no idea.

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Father and son jailed for murder Jason Michael went to the pub armed with knives A father and his 14-year-old son have been given life terms for stabbing a man to death in a pub in east London. Jason Michael, 39, and his son Harry Farrant were convicted of murdering Daniel Leahy, who was 45. The pair, of Abbey Road, Barking, were also convicted of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm to David Murphy and Lee Lumb. Mr Leahy was stabbed through the heart on 13 April in the Victoria pub on Axe Street, Barking, and died at the …

TWO police officers have been injured after the vehicle they were in was hit by an out of control sports car on the M3 motorway http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4766102.Po...ed_in_M3_crash/ Wishing the officers a speedy recovery