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A 16-year-old girl and a 28-year-old man have been charged with public order offences after an incident near a fire-hit nightclub in Essex. Police attending the fire at The Sugar Hut club in Brentwood on Sunday were asked by staff at a nearby pub to deal with a disturbance. The man and the teenager have been bailed until later this month. A civil rights group has criticised the use of CS spray on a man at close quarters during the disturbance. An officer was filmed using CS spray on the man, who had blood on his face. Corinna Ferguson, from Liberty, said it was difficult to justify using a spray at close range. Essex Police did not want to comment on the incident bu…

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A police officer who posted photos of himself in uniform on a sleazy sex website has been allowed to stay at work. Traffic officer PC James Appi posted pictures showing him outside Downing Street and posing next to Barack Obama's presidential limousine. He reportedly left messages saying he fantasised about having sex on his police motorcycle. Sussex Police said yesterday that inquiries were under way into his behaviour but that his duties were so far unaffected. PC Appi is based at the force's road policing unit at Chichester. His profile on a swingers' website reportedly featured boasts about his work escorting powerful figures on the roads, which read: "I wor…

Congrats to those officer's, a big well done!

In the news today an 8 year old girl has sadly committed suicide at her home address, the news story also says that her 5 year old brother had been taken into care by the local services. My question is if you went into a house and found an 8 year old child had committed suicide would you look at maybe taken the 5 year old brother into care for his protection just because of this being abnormal? Thanks for any response

According to a newspaper yesterday (albeit The News of The World), " Cash strapped police forces are forcing thousands of experienced cops to take early retirement - to plug a black hole in their finances While police numbers actually rose by 1,911 over the last financial year, 1/3 of forces in England & Wales actually cut back. New Home Office figures reveal that more than 2,000 middle-ranking officers in 16 forces were pushed into early retirement packages while still younger than 50 - effectively making them redundant. Worst hit were the Yorkshire forces, with South Yorks & Humberside losing 148 & 133 officers respectively. North Yorks had the biggest pe…

Quite a sad story really. A desperate wannabe, or something perhaps a little more tragic? Still, a million quid is alot of money!

Source Teesside Evening Gazette I wonder how prisoners could help?

Source Wishing everyone involved a speedy recovery

Son's story: 'PC was like a bully'By Claire OwenCommentA POLICE officer accused of assault against a tugboat captain, who later died, has been branded a bully by the man's teenage son. Kieran O'Reilly, 16, was giving evidence in the case of PC Gary Jay, who denies charges of assault against the boy's father Ronnie and his mother Moira on June 14 last year. Southend Magistrates' Court heard yesterday that the police officer pushed both his parents while he was investigating a dispute between Mr O'Reilly and his other son, Ronnie, now 13, at their home in Berkeley Road, Clacton. advertisementKieran said: "The police officer was very aggressive and was trying to get a res…

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A fire service is planning to close one in four of its stations and axe a third of fire appliances under a cost-cutting drive, union leaders claimed today. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0R5CctwQO Not only our Police being cut to ribbons. :smiley_strop1: :smiley_strop1:

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.aspx?cp-...entid=149673640 The Government has been accused of "misleading" the family of murdered policewoman Yvonne Fletcher over whether her killer could face justice in Britain. More shenanigans from our government?

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