UK Policing News

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…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8032579.stm Police have criticised May Day anti-war protesters for pelting officers with missiles and causing criminal damage. So, no complaints against the Police yet? Probably did a bang up job as usual!! :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy:

A man has been shot dead outside Wandsworth Prison in south west London. Emergency services were called to the jail at about 2.30pm after reports of a gunfire. The Metropolitan Police are hunting two men seen running awayfrom the scene. It is believed the man was leaving the prison after visiting an inmate. A spokesman said: "We were called at 2.30pm to Heathfield Road after reports of a man shot outside the prison. "We found a man with gunshot wounds. Ambulance staff were treating him at the scene. He subsequently died. "Two men were seen running away towards Alma Terrace. Searches are ongoing. Several nearby roads have been cordoned off." The shooting took place i…

If this is borne out, then he is beneath contempt. Source BBC

A policewoman has pled guilty to illegally accessing information about dozens of Chinese people on Lothian and Borders Police computers. Constable Anna Wong admitted 28 charges of breaching the Data Protection Act at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Friday. She was not present in court and the case was continued until next week. Wong, 26, is currently suspended from the force and faces a misconduct hearing over the offences, which took place between March 2006 and June 2007. Defence solicitor David O'Hagan told the court: "She's a policewoman and she accessed the information, simply accessed but didn't pass the information on. "There was a number of Chinese individual…