UK Policing News

Link - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...rugs-raids.html One wonders how this info got out or why its come out now if the investiogation is ongoing and has been for over a year. Has the IPCC released the info? Or is it someone from the inside through one of our journalist friends like we have seen on here? Whislt I like the comment in the last paragraph, surely stories like this promote assumptions from the ill educated and anti police sectors we see all too often.

Judge William Hart told Partington, 19, the terms of the curfew meant she had to agree to stay home every night of the week apart from Saturday - the same night she had carried out the drunken attack at a party. At Gloucester Crown Court, Judge Hart sentenced Partington, of New street, Gloucester, to a 12-month community order with supervision and a curfew from 9pm to 7am every day for the next two months except Saturdays. He said: "I give you one day off a week because it is summer and I don't think it is necessarily in your interests for you to be confined to your home every evening of the week for the next two months." Partington had admitted assaulting Kimberley…

A friend of mine at my day job mentioned to me that she'd seen an article in the scotsman over the weekend about special constables. I'd not seen the article so had a wee trawl on the web and found the following from the Scotsman webpage --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- from Scotsman.com http://news.scotsman.com/leaders/Specials-...aved.5342042.jp --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specials must be saved Published Date: 07 June 2009 THE use of special constables on our streets is an aspect of our system of law and order of which we should be proud.…

A busy day for Surrey on Saturday then. Here's hoping whoever's responsible is caught quickly.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/US-Video-Footage-Of-Great-Grandmother-Kathryn-Winkfein-Tasered-By-Police-Officer-In-Austin-Texas/Article/200906215300730?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15300730_US%3A_Video_Footage_Of_Great_Grandmother_Kathryn_Winkfein_Tasered_By_Police_Officer_In_Austin%2C_Texas The pictures from a camera on his car dashboard show the angry exchange between Kathryn Winkfein and the arresting officer in Austin, Texas. She had been stopped for allegedly speeding on a notoriously dangerous section of Highway 71. After completing the paperwork, the officer, Deputy Chris Bieze, returned to Winkfein's truck - but when she refuse…

Nearly £340,000 a year is being spent on repairing police cars that have been filled with the wrong type of fuel, the Daily Mirror has revealed today. The report went on to say that four police cars every day are being filled with the incorrect fuel leading to an average repair bill of £6500 per week. As you can see, draining tanks, changing plugs and re-filling with the right fuel is not a cheap business. The Bill’s biggest offender for confusing the green and black pumps is the London Metropolitan Police, whose officers managed to confuse themselves 671 times in three years. Humberside is reported as being the country’s most diligent force, having only suffered o…

source:the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambrid...ire/8092032.stm No officers hurt or members of the public. edit link

Peter Fahy, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, claims Labour's culture of central control has produced a generation of middle and senior managers who are expert administrators but have no instinct on how best to catch criminals. He says: "There are conflicting messages and behaviours from Government and from the small army of people who run the many initiatives which hold us to account. "There is every indication the centre is struggling to overcome its addiction of central control through statistical approaches and one-off initiatives. "It is also inevitable that as we move towards what looks like the end of this Government, but also a political era…

http://cms.met.police.uk/news/convictions/...eating_at_poker Two men have been sentenced to a total of 14 months imprisonment and one has also been issued with a 10 year anti-social behaviour order in what is believed to be the first convictions for cheating at gambling under the Gambling Act 2005 in London. These people must realize that gambling institutions watch every move you make, how daft can some people be?

FIVE off-duty police officers were arrested over an alleged assault on a teenager during a night out. Separate investigations have been launched by detectives and officers from GMP's professional standards branch. It is understood the officers became involved in a row with a group of youths on Market Street in Manchester. Some of the group had asked two teenagers to stop urinating in the street. The incident is thought to have turned violent when the off-duty officers revealed they were policemen and one of them produced a warrant card. A 17-year-old was taken to hospital suffering soreness to his ribs and bruising. The teenager, who is thought to have been drunk, made…

Police officers patrolling the streets of Whitby are to be issued with electric stun guns. 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 depl…

8 June 2009 OFFICERS from West Midlands Police have launched a criminal investigation after the force helicopter was targeted in an arson attack this morning. The Fire Service were called by Air Traffic Control to the helicopter's landing site at Elmdon Airport in Birmingham at just before 2am this morning. The front end of the helicopter appears to have been set on fire. The damage to the aircraft is currently being assessed. An investigation was immediately launched. Forensic scene investigators and detectives have been working since the incident to establish what happened. Officers are working in conjunction with airport security and fire service. Enquiries are o…

Terror suspects win legal battle By Dominic Casciani BBC News The Scales of Justice at the Old Bailey It is a major decision about the legality of using secret evidence Three terror suspects whose freedom is restricted by control orders have won a legal battle in the House of Lords over the use of secret evidence. Nine Law Lords unanimously ruled it was unfair individuals should be kept in ignorance of the case against them. They did not quash the men's orders, but one warned the ruling could spell the end of the control orders system. The home secretary called the decision "disappointing" but said all control orders would remain in force for now. The Home Office…

Officers honoured for sea rescue Two police officers and a member of the public will receive bravery awards for saving a man off the Blackpool coast in an incident that killed his girlfriend. Sgt Robert Gomery and Pc Mark Mulholland and Michael Hammond jumped into the sea to help the pair on 24 August. The woman, 20, from Manchester, died after she was swept from the shore. The trio will be presented with a certificate from the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society later. Mr Hammond will also be awarded with the society's parchment and silver marine medal at the ceremony. A national 48-hour strike by coastguards had been in place at the time. During the inc…

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...-from-cops.html Police taunted Joby Sanders, 37, in verse after seizing £255,000 of assets under a Proceeds of Crime order, reports The Sun. Nice bit of poetry. :lol: