UK Policing News

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...guidelines.html Persistent criminals could escape punishment even when there is overwhelming evidence against them under new plans allowing prosecutors to overlook minor offences, senior lawyers have warned. Hardly news, thought minor offences were dealt with the courts by way of, behave in future, bye bye. But why run. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...scape-jump.html A BURGLAR who escaped cops by jumping 245 feet off a cliff was jailed today. A few more months and you would have got off with a warning.

Is anyone watching Dispatches on Channel 4 (started at 8pm 19/10/09) It's about public order training. It's interesting but seems very biased.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10/19/police_smartphone/

on the radio today in hungrey 11 police officers resigned as they had won on the lottery 10 million jackpot the town had to send back up as the officers left the police station empty as soon as they found out wish i had there luck

Gordon Brown is not doing enough to stop the scourge of the yob culture, the Government's own crime tsar said last night. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0UNwgcbRr They blame themselves for a change, and not the Police, how nice, certainly worth placing up on this forum. :clapping:

http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/10/16/b...aperwork-error/ Brawl case dropped in paperwork error It was bureaucracy at its finest – the case against five men accused of starting a bar brawl was dropped at Walsall Magistrates Court because the Crown Prosecution Service, CPS, had spent six months getting the paperwork together and still not done the photocopying. http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/2124 I am guessing this does not happen to often.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...iled-today.html UNION bosses are today expected to unveil dates for a series of crippling postal strikes. Question is, how will postal strikes effect the Policing of this country, if at all? It is assured by the media it will affect us all is some horrible way, but do the Police have their own way around these matters?

A SEX beast who broke his girlfriend's neck before raping and sexually assaulting her has been jailed for 10 years. Steven Ross, 36, of Cathnor Road, Shepherd's Bush, battered his girlfriend of two years, who is likely to never walk again, before grunting 'I want sex,' and raping her. Mr Ross denied all charges but was convicted for the grievous bodily harm, rape and assault by penetration of his partner last December at Blackfriars Crown Court. Giving evidence from a wheelchair, the victim said: "'I was completely at his mercy. "He said he wanted sex. He helped himself." Ross, who had been convicted of assaulting the woman in another incident of domestic violence m…

Thousands of teenagers had a total of 5,171 litres of alcohol confiscated in a summer crackdown on binge drinking, the government has said. As part of a £1.4m campaign, more than 3,500 youngsters in 69 "priority areas" of England were stopped between July and September. Also, more than 1,800 parents were informed and more than 18,000 teenagers directed to "positive" activities. The Conservatives said the scheme had made no real difference to the problem. However children's minister Dawn Primarolo said the campaign was a "success story". In June, Children's Secretary Ed Balls announced that 69 youth crime priority areas would be given a share of extra cash to hel…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_y...ire/8288396.stm Parents drinking outside schools Parents in Barnsley have been criticised by police for drinking alcohol when dropping off and collecting their children from school.Complaints have been made about drinking in the street around Doncaster Road primary school in the town. Councillors and police are to meet to discuss banning drinking alcohol in the streets around the school. If the ban is implemented police will have the power to confiscate alcohol and drinkers could face a £500 fine. 'Not acceptable' Det Insp Mark Spooner, of Barnsley's Central Safer Neighbourhood Team, said they had been getting reports of dri…

BBC News I hope that anyone who believes that criminal damage and assaulting the police is an acceptable form of protest is dealt with appropriately.

Met to cut jobs and shut stations Jobs could be cut and police stations closed as the Metropolitan Police tries to save £48m from next year's budget, Deputy Commissioner Tim Godwin said. Officers manning custody suites will be replaced with "not fully trained and warranted" detention officers. Mr Godwin said the force was facing "considerable pressure" which could see "unfit" police stations and custody suites replaced with front counters. The budget for 2011/12 could be "more difficult", the London Assembly heard. Answering questions raised by the London Assembly's Budget and Performance Committee Mr Godwin said the force was trying to lessen the impact on fro…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/notting...ire/8312918.stm Further arrests have been made on the second day of demonstrations at a coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire. "The group added its aim was "to confront the causes of climate change, not get into conflict with the police"." Yeah right, i believe you, most thou wouldn`t. The great unwashed are there for a rumble, and hope to catch a Officer on film then headed towards Youtube.

The BBC has reported that most forces are to be issue smartphones by 2010. Link to BBC News report Is this just another headline grab by a quango? Or is this something which may actually happen? (Woo hoo, I get there before Kenworthy! I wonder if he's on the M5? )