UK Policing News

More than 50 drivers were stopped during a special operation in Abbeymead. Special Constables from the Hucclecote Inspector Neighbourhood Area (INA) carried out vehicle checks on Saturday to reinforce the road safety message. Operation Carrera was led by ten officers from the Special Constabulary and supported by three Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) from the Hucclecote Safer Community Team (SCT). The operation targeted speeding drivers and those committing other traffic offences as these have been identified by the local community as a policing priority. Officers were equipped with speed detection devices and those drivers who were stopped had their vehicles …

http://www.lancashire.police.uk/news/new-p...urn-with-darwen A UNIQUE new project aimed at reducing crime in Blackburn with Darwen by changing the way offenders are managed, has been launched by the Rt Hon Jack Straw at a special ceremony in Blackburn today. Does this idea have any merit, or another government scam to keep people from going to jail as they are to full?

Firearms officers could have colluded to produce false accounts of the shooting of a barrister in London, a court has heard. Mark Saunders, 32, was killed after exchanging fire with police from his £2.2 million flat in Chelsea in May. A total of seven marksmen fired 11 shots at him at the end of a six-hour siege, it has emerged. In a landmark high court case, Mr Saunders' family are challenging the accepted practice of police being allowed to debrief and confer before producing their statements of what happened. The family fear this provides potential for a cover-up because such methods create "a substantial risk of collusion and of contamination". A ruling on the …

Cyber courts hand out instant justice in shopping malls Justin Davenport 27.05.09 Major shopping centres such as Westfield in White City are to get "cyber courts" to hand out instant justice to petty offenders such as shoplifters. Police are in talks about setting up "virtual" courtrooms where offenders will be sentenced via video links to magistrates. The plan was revealed today as Justice Se…

Will it result in words of advice or more serious action?? Three police officers face disciplinary action after "misleading" information was added to the custody record of an injured prisoner who later died. Callum McLean, 41, was taken to Ashton-under-Lyne station after being found drunk and injured at a bus stop. CCTV showed he was visited once before being found "unresponsive" in his cell which was a "failure in duty of care", the police watchdog said. Greater Manchester Police apologised for "failing" Mr McLean's family. Mr McLean was found sleeping at a bus stop in Gorton on 10 April and was taken into custody over a warrant for failing to appear in court. He…

The Court of Appeal has limited police powers to keep pictures of protesters in case they go on to break the law. Judges said police had been wrong to retain pictures of a lawful arms trade activist who was not suspected of any criminal offence. The Metropolitan Police said they acted reasonably in retaining pictures of the campaigner, Andrew Wood from Oxford. Welcoming the judgement, Mr Wood said that the onus was now on the Met to review its retention policies. The court has told the Met to destroy the photographs if it does not challenge the ruling in the House of Lords. The force has indicated it will not appeal. Mr Wood argued that police had harassed him an…

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...wrong-girl.html Two men and a woman who tied a teenager to a tree, poured petrol down his throat and set him alight in a grisly recreation of a scene in a horror film are facing life in jail for his murder. Do we mimic what we watch on TV? WD to the Police for getting this conviction!! :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...man-rights.html A foreign rapist has cost the taxpayer £20,000 in legal aid after claiming his human rights were breached by people seeing him in handcuffs. Will all prisoners now get compensation for being in handcuffs? If so, i need to be arrested, say once a week, good income.

Drink-drive paramedic struck off Friday, May 29, 2009, 10:00 AN ON-CALL paramedic has been thrown out of the profession after being caught twice the drink-drive limit while behind the wheel of an ambulance car. A tribunal heard Jonathan Knight had been driving through Plymouth when he was stopped after attempting to perform an illegal U-turn in front of a police car. The Heath Professions Council (HPC) was told that tests at the police station showed Knight was twice the drink-drive limit with 89 microgrammes of alcohol to 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35mg. The tribunal also heard Knight had four cans of beer on the passenger seat of his ambulance. T…

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...-in-Surrey.html Police Budget Cuts 'Irrational and Indefensible' 28-May-09 Chief Constable says the enforced loss of 50 jobs will inevitably give the public a less capable police service... Bit obvious, but is this happening everywhere?

One man has died and seven police officers have been taken to hospital after a noxious substance was found at a farm in Surrey. Police were called to the farm because of "safety concerns" Police were called to Burpham Court Farm in Guildford at about 0100 BST where they found a man in his 50s suffering from breathing problems. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The officers were taken to the Royal Surrey County Hospital as a precaution, and are expected to be released later. A police spokesman said officers were called to the farm - a rare breeds conservation centre - because of "safety concerns". "Following a call to Su…

The prison doctor, psychiatrist and social commentator has written a long (so not included here) article attacking the Macpherson report