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Eighteen trainee officers have suffered burns to their faces during a CS spray training exercise for Greater Manchester Police (GMP). They were made to walk through clouds of the chemical - 10 times stronger than the spray used on the street - to ensure they had been exposed to it. Since the incident, at Hough End centre in Chorlton, GMP has suspended CS spray training while a review is carried out. CS is used in spray form by many police forces as a temporary incapacitant. All officers were placed on restricted duties after the training days, on 25 and 28 August, until they have been given the all clear by medical experts. A police spokesman said they started to fee…

Police officers will no longer have to fill out lengthy forms when they stop and search people in the street, the home secretary will announce. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8257961.stm Appears to be a good idea.

Sorry if this is already up somewhere! Saw this in the Metro today, I thought it was so sad! The poor things.

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Source I always feel very sad when i read story's like this Couples across the country spend thousands of pounds on treatments such as IVF trying for a child yet this child's mother has gone to the extreme of abandoning there newborn baby But of course the state of mind of the mother of this child is also a primary concern!

A former Hertfordshire police officer who regularly fed confidential information to criminal contacts has been jailed for 18 months. William Stone, 25, of West Avenue, Clacton, Essex, illegally accessed an array of restricted data systems, London's Southwark Crown Court heard. He admitted six charges of obtaining personal data and one count of misconduct in public office. Stone also pleaded guilty to five related offences, including conspiracy. The former constable, who was based at Hemel Hemstead, admitted one count of securing unauthorised access to programmes or data, and one of conspiring to do so. He also pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to obtain personal…

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Trials are under way of a UK service allowing people to contact emergency services by text message. The system is aimed at people who cannot make normal voice calls to the 999 service due to disability. The service sends the text to a voice relay assistant, who then speaks the text message to the emergency service and then texts back their reply. If successful, the government initiative, which is backed by Ofcom, would become permanent in early 2010. The scheme is a joint venture between various UK telecom firms. The live trial involves people sending text messages in a real emergency. Administrators are looking for several thousand volunteers, with a preference for …

Can't blame the officers concerned, but I feel sick that republican terrorists have been handed this "victory." Time to bring the troops back, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8219391.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8220888.stm

Source Slightly worrying that this woman was carrying around a live grenade, from her home to the police station? As the article stated why didn't she just leave them?

Hoax 999 call 'riot hero' jailed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8249214.stm A man hailed as a hero for saving a policeman from rioting hooligans has been jailed for making a hoax 999 call which sparked a £1m rescue operation. Not sure which way to turn on this one?

Mock muggings should be staged across Britain to tackle the UK's growing 'walk on by' culture, a new charity has suggested. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0Qc4dQ1Om Because it is the mail, i needed a back up http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsi...000/8245540.stm Counter productive, if i did see a mugging now, why would i bother helping, it maybe a Mock mugging, waste of time.