UK Policing News

Children aged as young as ten are being smuggled into the UK to work in dangerous cannabis factories. Underage workers from countries including Vietnam and China are among those being trafficked to work as 'gardeners' in the illegal factories. Gangs bring them over to Britain, waiving the £15,000 fee they would normally charge to smuggle people over, because the child labour can yield millions of pounds in profit. It is estimated that six per cent of children trafficked here are forced to work in such factories. Crimestoppers drugs campaign These figures have come to light as Crimestoppers launches a week-long campaign to encourage people to pass on information about …

Some local authorities in London will be offered a share of £56.5million from the government to help tackle youth crime. The money will be offered to 13 local authorities through the Youth Crime Action Plan, and will help to fund youth workers and combat gangs. It is part of the government's wider plan to intervene sooner and to prevent young people from becoming involved in a life of crime in the first instance. The money will also help young people who have been in trouble to rebuild their lives. If this is spam as I suspect it is, your links have been removed. David.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8100319.stm What is the right age to hold children responsible for their criminal acts? Eight? 10? 14? 18? 8 Years old, sod 10.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/2...ght-winner-blog The reason for bringing this up, Bloggers beware as judge says authors do NOT have right to anonymity on the web http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...nymity-web.html I am assuming this WAS he blog http://nightjack.wordpress.com/

A very 'Special' day is planned in Enfield. On Saturday 27th June, the borough will be entirely patrolled by officers in the Metropolitan Special Constabulary (MSC). Not only is this a first for Enfield, but a first for the MPS. Special Constables are volunteer Police Officers. They wear the same uniform as regular officers; they have the same powers and responsibilities. On 27th June, the twelve hour tour of duty will see the MSC responding to calls, patrolling hotspots and undertaking any other operational duties required on the day. Chief Inspector Ray Rogers, Partnerships, Enfield Borough: "The MSC is set to grow significantly in numbers towards 2012. This day wi…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_y...ire/8093500.stm The Taser guns, which can hit suspects with a 50,000-volt charge, are currently only used by North Yorkshire Police's specialist firearms officers. The force said it expected up to 10 officers to be trained in operating the weapons by the end of the year. Amnesty International said it was concerned about the increasingly widespread use of the weapon in the UK. The pistol-like guns use compressed air to fire two darts that trail a cable back to the handset. Insp Nick Wattan of North Yorkshire Police said the officers would receive extensive training before the guns were deployed. 'Seismic shift' "The Home …

The Queen has honoured police officers and staff from around the UK in her Birthday Honours List. Full listings here....... http://www.policeoracle.com/honours_awards...s_birthday.html Anyone here just got a letter from the Queen? You can tell us in full confidence. :lol:

Bespoke policing: An officer hides behind the beach hut, hoping to catch speeding cyclists on the rainy promenade This police officer looks as if he is engaging in some rather furtive – though boring – detective work. In fact, he is using the beach hut as cover to catch out speeding cyclists on a windswept promenade. He was caught clocking offenders with a handheld speed gun as they pedalled by. If they exceeded 10mph they were stopped by a 'seafront ranger' and given a leaflet and a talking-to 'I didn't see the police officer at all. The next minute, I was stopped by a council officer who said I had been caught on a speed camera,' said 26-year-old Nick Lomax, wh…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8097320.stm A woman who has to wear high heels for medical reasons has had a community service order lifted. :lol: Maybe she should have done what she was told to do, without quibbling.

Six Scotland Yard officers have been suspended over allegations of "waterboarding" drug suspects. The men are said to have pushed the suspects' heads repeatedly into buckets or bowls of water in a bid to force them to reveal the locations of drugs. The accusations suggest they were simulating the notorious "waterboard" torture techniques employed against al Qaeda suspects by CIA staff. The process involves hooding and strapping a suspect to a board and then tipping him head-first into a bath of water. The effect is to make the suspect believe he is drowning. It comes as Scotland Yard is investigating similar allegations against the British Security Service MI5. The i…

I don't think/hope the officers aren't too badly injured. The story was initially put out last night as an incident in which an arrested man was hosplitalised, but more details emerged this morning http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_y...ire/8089048.stm

http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/ha...3A57%3A22%3A553 A COMMUNITY police officer in Hampstead Garden Suburb has been brought to book after making a hoax 999 call to colleagues. According to witnesses, the PCSO called a fellow officer claiming a man was stuck down a manhole and needed urgent help. But after a patrol car raced to the scene, the officer soon realised he had been the victim of the type of prank which police are keen to clamp down on. A Barnet Police spokesman said: "There was an incident involving a member of the Garden Suburb Safer Neighbourhoods Team on April 1. As with all such cases, appropriate formal disciplinary procedures are in place and w…

Both odd and sick Glad he got 4 years

The union that represents police officers in Northern Ireland has urged the chief constable to postpone plans to phase out the full-time reserve. Sir Hugh Orde has indicated that he intends to press ahead with a plan to abolish the reserve by March 2011. That date was recommended by the Patten Commission on police reform. But the Police Federation said a move to phase out the reserve would be premature at a time when the dissident threat is at its highest. There are currently 500 full-time members of the police reserve. During the Troubles, the full-time reservists often carried out the same jobs, and faced the same dangers, as regular police officers. Forty-nine of…