UK Policing News

is it just me or does the headline imply some sort of wrong doing (or that baldric is now planning firearms ops for the met)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...he-streets.html Tell us something we dont know, yet this is only just coming out into the public domain. Paperwork up and time partolling down....its a sham!! We are always promised cuts but with how accountable we are how can we change this...its all risk assesments and backside covering forms that take all the time.

Source I think more details are going to emerge about this as time goes on!

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3513608.html?menu= Police officers who risk their lives to protect the public will not face prosecution for breaking health and safety laws, under new rules. Looks like the clock has been turned back several years.

Source A good result all round!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8294241.stm Just a smidge lucky for the moped rider... Hopefully the person will also be charged with attempted murder now.

Detectives from Trident are investigating after two men were arrested after aiming a firearm at police officers and two member of the public. http://cms.met.police.uk/news/arrests_and_...lice_and_public A job well done!! And no mention of the IPCC.

See here. So when (I don't belive it's "if") the Tories win the next General Election, those of us in the public sector look set for a pay freeze in 2011. I know there are those who say we were lucky with the 3-year deal, but I have to say I find it an insult that we should have to carry the can for years of Labour financial mismanagement. Dark, dark times ahead methinks. They haven't even started on public sector pensions yet.

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Armed police have raided a home in south Belfast. Officers were responding to a call from a member of the public claiming that a man was in possession of what appeared to be a firearm. The alert centred on a terraced home in the Donnybrook Street area, off the Lisburn Road. Armed officers raided the property, however a spokesman for the PSNI confirmed that nothing suspicious was recovered and no arrests were made. Meanwhile in a separate incident part of the Donegall Road in south Belfast was closed to traffic because of a security alert. Police were responding to reports that a suspicious object had been discovered in Coolfin Street…

It's hard to believe this sort of thing can be allowed to go on in the UK, although seemingly it won't be a problem anymore. I remember a few years back watching a police documentary, they featured an old man who had been ripped off. He was complaining to a policeman outside, who simply stated it was within the law as it was listed as a 'service charge' on the 'menu' on display outside the premises.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/8293458.stm Police car crash driver cleared The crashed police car The police car and fire engine collided in Middlesbrough A Cleveland Police driver has been cleared of any blame after a collision with a fire engine, which injured three firefighters and two police officers. The two vehicles crashed at high speed in Middlesbrough in February 2006, as they were answering separate 999 calls. A county court judge ruled the engine driver was two-thirds responsible and the police car driver one-third. But after a challenge by Cleveland's chief constable, the Court of Appeal said the police officer was blameless. The ruling could …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/8290093.stm Police apology over urine bottles Bottles of urine Bottles of urine were left by the side of the footpath. A senior police officer in Derbyshire has offered an "unreserved" apology after more than 100 bottles of urine were left near a public footpath. Officers discovered the bottles at a house at Waingroves, near Codnor, during an arrest. They were placed in a nearby field for collection on 27 September but not picked up until some time later. Supt Gary Parkin said the bottles posed a problem and should not have been left at the scene. Mr Parkin said: "I would like to make a public apology to all the reside…