UK Policing News

23/09/2009 "THREE people were arrested today in dawn raids after more than £50,000 was stolen from train station ticket machines. The early morning swoop saw officers from the British Transport Police search addresses in Govan, Glasgow, and Saltcoats, Ayrshire. A number of homes were targeted in the series of raids. advertisementThe gang's crime spree began earlier this year and they are thought to be linked to thefts of cash at 15 stations in the Glasgow and Lanarkshire areas. Their haul is understood to have amounted to tens of thousands of pounds in just a matter of months. A 20-year-old man was arrested following a raid at a flat in Uist Street, Govan, and a 37…

Assisted suicide law 'clarified' By Nick Triggle Health reporter, BBC News New guidance has been issued to clarify the law on assisted suicide in England and Wales - but it offers no guarantees against prosecution. Instead the director of public prose…

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http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/new...ize-mcn-camera/ Cops in an unmarked car dramatically seized an MCN camera after we took their picture in North Wales on Sunday. The officers had been waiting in a lay-by on the A5 secretly watching thousands of riders heading to our meeting in Betws-y-Coed, a protest rally over North Wales Police's heavy-handed treatment of law-abiding motorcyclists. A marked patrol car was positioned further along the same route. When questioned by MCN, the covert officers first claimed to be “monitoring trafficâ€. But when MCN produced a camera they said they were armed response officers and threatened to seize the camera if pictur…

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3494528.html A Crown Court judge charged with drink driving has resigned after being arrested for the second time. I wonder how many times he has judged over drink drivers, and how many times he has jailed or at least taken a licence off of someone, hypocrite.

We get these kind of stories very frequently, but I am not sure we've discussed them in any detail on PS.com, perhaps because specials tend not to have very much to do with rape allegation. My first, very general point, about rape conviction figures is simply that rape is often a crime where the only evidence comes from the victim, which is of course on its own unlikely to give sufficient evidence to be certain, beyond all reasonable doubt, that someone is guilty. That in itself gives good reason to think why rape convictions might be so low. Unfortunately the modern world prefers to find prejudice as a reason for a bad result and hence it's very easy for news sources …

Boy, 13, held over hammer attack on Accrington police constable. http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/...lice_constable/ I am sure we all wish this Officer a speedy recovery. :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: Flipping heck, i just noticed, 13 years old?

I wondered when this would come to light! Still it should buy them some votes in key Labour marginal constituency (Darlington)! Officers in close contact with children or vulnerable adults will have to be cleared by the Independent Safeguarding Authority even though they will have had full criminal record and background checks when they joined the police service. Forces will also have to pay the £64 registration fee in each case, meaning the taxpayer will end up funding an officer’s background check for a second time. The majority of the check carried out by the ISA will be based on the police’s own information and intelligence. The rules emerged as one of the co…

Source No police marksmen will be prosecuted over the fatal shooting of barrister Mark Saunders in a south London siege, the Crown Prosecution Service said. Mr Saunders, 32, died after being shot at least five times by police officers in Chelsea, west London, in May 2008. The barrister shot at police, neighbours and buildings in a five-hour stand-off at his Markham Square home. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone after the siege. Mr Saunders threw a letter addressed to his wife from his window during the 6 May 2008 siege. Negligence considered Charges of murder, attempted murder and manslaughter were conside…

Full story Obviously a sensitive subject. My experience of rape investigations is that they are thorough, and the victim takes primacy throughout. As Detectives we are trained to fully investigate serious crimes, and assume nothing, except when a rape is reported where we are asked to accept whatever the victim says. Some of the reports are absolute madness, and are given the same weight as every other report. Reports where a female has sex with more than 5 men willingly, and then reports that she was raped by the middle of the multitude. There are obvious evidential issues from the start and we carry on treating them seriously and paying millions to labs to examine it…

http://www.motherwelltimes.co.uk/news/Resi...oise.5633099.jp Playing devils advocate here, Why should the church get away with this? The police are mediating between the church and the residents (Common sense, or a waste of our time?) If it was a house party making the same noise, people would be getting the jail, and any equipment would be getting seized per anti social behaviour act. So why should this church be any different? Or should they continue to operate as usual as they are helping the youth? Anti-social behaviour or youth diversion? Whats peoples thoughts on this?

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/art...rawl/article.do As below 5ft 3in karate woman floors soldiers in brawl Peter Dominiczak 15.09.09 adverts.addToArray("sky", "120x600,160x600"); A woman martial arts instructor knocked out a Coldstream Guard with one punch, threw another into a sound system and hit one of their wives in the face when a party ended in a brawl, a court was told. Ashley Wolfe, who is 5ft 3in and was wearing a floor-length red satin dress, attacked the soldiers at a Christmas dinner dance for sergeants and officers of the Coldstream Guards at Woolwich Barracks. The Canadian is said to have flown into a rage after soldiers began kis…

Now I love a good shisha, nothing nicer then having a huge meal then sitting down on a comfy couch with my friends and little double apple tobacco. But I’ve been growing ever more concerned with the great boom in the industry, there have been 3 new places opened in the summer near where I live! My concerns and slight outrage: Known health risks being dumbed down by smokers and shisha cafe owners. http://www.examiner.com/x-14041-Charlotte-...ar-health-risks Regulation, how can smokers be sure what they are smoking is purely tobacco and molases? Are they using the best charcol to ensure the chemicals being inhaled are kept to a minimum? Tax. Are shisha bars paying…