UK Policing News

http://www.essex.police.uk/news/n_cont.php?articleId=4944 In line with popular public demand, Essex Police has increased its police officer numbers by more than 500 in the last five years. This takes the force’s current police officer strength to just over 3,600 officers. The numbers sound good to me, but i as a MOP have no idea if that is the numbers of new Officers the Essex Police were looking for. BTW, this cost cutting, what did they entail?

A special constable who leaked confidential details from the police national database is suing a force, saying her own data protection rights were breached after colleagues found out and called her a 'silly cow'. </H2> Lawsuit: Tracy Laing at the hearing Police worker Tracy Laing launched an unfair dismissal appeal against the Kent force, despite admitting breaking the law. The 38-year-old accepted she committed an offence and that the force was right to suspend her from her duties in November last year. But she said colleagues should not have been informed about her misdeeds. 'I then received calls and my mobile didn't stop ringing - I received a text from…

How awful, both for the family and friends of the two girls, and also for the Special involved.

Source An attack that was completely unnecessary. But 3 months is nothing to be honest At the end of the day this guy was only doing what he is paid to do, and should not be open to abuse or assault by members of the public!

Hi, I saw on the news last week a clip regarding some sort of robbery in s sports shop. Unfortunately I was not in a position to ask the complainant to turn on the volume and let me watch it but am keen to know the details of the incident. Does anyone know the footage I am on about and can thery advise on where it was so I can tyr to find details. Thanks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8242238.stm Three men have been found guilty of plotting to blow up planes above the Atlantic with home-made liquid bombs. Well done to those who caught these bastards. :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...antic-jets.html Islamic extremist guilty of liquid bomb plot to blow up transatlantic jets

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/sep...ublic-attitudes Hang your head in shame. A major survey of public attitudes towards dishonesty has revealed a nation dominated by chancers, cheats and petty thieves. Turns out most of us are iffy, well not Coach drivers the survey did not include them. :clapping: So what have you people been up to?

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HUMAN remains - believed to be that of three newborn babies hidden since the 1980s - have been discovered by police in a St Helens house. Officers made the grim find in the early hours of Sunday at the house in Harlow Close, Sutton Heath, following a tip-off. It is believed the babies could have been born as long ago as the mid-1980s. Two women aged 54 and 38 and a 26-year-old man were questioned by police following the find, before being released pending further inquiries. It is believed forensic tests are being carried out to determine the age and sex of the children. Police will also need to determine how the infants died. But the complex investigation could last…

SOURCE http://www.dyfed-powys.police.uk/en/news/2009/9/4/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8233636.stm A complaint has been lodged after a man stood naked on a Trafalgar Square plinth as part of the ongoing One and Other art installation. i had no idea this was the law, so i`m off to work without clothing on now, my body is a mix of Elmer Fudd and Jack straw. I can hear you mutter to yourselves isn`t that Kenworthy gorgeous. :lol: :lol:

Surely appearing naked is lewd and obscene? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8233636.stm