UK Policing News

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/c...icle6244005.ece Britain’s biggest police force has agreed to limit its use of controversial stop-and-search powers after critics claimed it was discriminating against minority groups. Maybe it is time for a new reason to stop and search. Call it Knife crime, i am guessing it will be the same sort of people getting stopped. I would have no problem getting searched, and all they find on me is a set of keys, and UKPO flyers. :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yo...ire/8038929.stm Family, friends and former colleagues of a murdered policewoman will unveil a memorial in her honour later. "Police officers up and down the country put their lives on the line every day, never knowing what could happen. "Thankfully, few have had to make the ultimate sacrifice made by Sharon Beshenivsky. So true!!, May she rest in peace, as it is an ongoing case, best not to be discussed in depth!! :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8037042.stm

A police officer was being questioned by detectives today on suspicion of faking a fatal car crash to cover up the murder of his policewoman lover. Pc Claire Howarth, 31, died from head injuries in hospital shortly after she was rescued from the wreckage of her silver BMW which had apparently slewed off the road into a tree with her partner at the wheel. Traffic police called to the scene in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in the early hours were suspicious about whether she had sustained her injuries in the collision. The dead woman’s 26-year-old partner and also a serving police officer with the Cheshire Constabulary, was arrested on suspicion of murder …

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/U..._State_Building An off-duty police officer who broke off his holiday in New York to chase down a thug who stole a mobile phone has been hailed a hero by American shoppers. A hero in my eyes, anyone know this Officer? :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8036800.stm Pity it doesn't say WHAT they are challenging.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2281507.ece COPS will be able to cage thugs in mobile prisons under radical Tory crime-fighting plans. Will we be allowed to throw rotten tomatoes at these thugs? "based in big shopping centres" So when the stores close, these thugs will be locked in all night? Good idea!! :clapping:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7964280.stm You'd expect this in a far east socialist dictatorship, not Europe. Just shows how far media fed hysteria has helped drive this tiny island into totalitarianism. A criminal gang could easily steal legal shotguns and rifles. Trying to justify this using that sorry old excuse really doesn't cut it. It's always been either "A criminal might steal it" or "You might get angry one day and shoot people, therefore we have to lock you up for a minimum of 5 years." Many people don't know that the rest of Europe has gun laws comparable to the United States, minus the constitutional right restricting the need to get a …

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090506/tuk-sp...ph-dba1618.html hehe

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...ve-uniform.html Paramedic tried to buy wine wearing only his thong after supermarket staff 'refused to serve him in uniform' So why does this supermarket not serve people with uniforms on? And why were the people so shocked over the man's actions? :smiley_vomit: :smiley_vomit:

Wiltshre Times

A former special constable based in west London has been charged with 13 offences, including engaging in sexual activity with a child under 16. Kevin McLean, 29, was charged with 12 counts of making indecent images of children under the age of 16. He also faces one charge of engaging in sexual activity with an underage child. Mr McLean, who has been released on bail, is due to appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court on 3 December. Source

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6222312.ece It was Tony Blair who thought up the idea of on-the-spot fines for minor offences. The proposal, floated in June 2000, conjured up images of people being frogmarched to cash machines. But it was revived the next year by David Blunkett, then Home Secretary, and introduced in 2004. Only people who can really answer this are Police officers, so do On the spot fines work?

Police have named a woman wanted in connection with a hit-and-run collision that left an 11-year-old boy dead. Hannah Saaf is being sought by police following the death of Sam Riddall Sam Riddall died after a car mounted the pavement and hit him as he walked home from a church youth service in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, on Friday evening. Three other children and a man were with him when the incident took place at around 9.15pm. A white Ford Focus estate car was travelling along Eastfield Road towards the centre of the village when it careered off the road, mounted the pavement and hit the group. Witnesses then saw the female driver exit the car and flee from the sce…