UK Policing News

interesting stuff..what do people feel? too idealistic? Sir Robert Peel's Nine Points of policing: * The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder. * The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions. * Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public. * The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force. * Police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion but by constantly dem…

Police forces have been swamped with complaints from the public about motoring offences and unruly driving – by their own officers. Using a mobile phone at the wheel, parking in disabled bays and stopping on double yellow lines to pick up a takeaway pizza or use a cash machine, have all been alleged against officers in marked police cars. Others are said to have performed dangerous stunts, not worn seatbelts and chomped on chocolate bars and sandwiches while driving. One logged incident to London’s Metropolitan Police read: ‘Complainant alleges that as he sat at a set of traffic lights, he saw a police van rushed (sic) passed (sic) with it’s (sic) lights and si…

An armed officer is in hospital with severe head injuries and two patrol officers with minor injuries after stopping a vehicle of armed robbers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7995657.stm Fingers crossed and i hope he fully recovers soon, we all know what seriious head injuries can do.

Source: BBC News Video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7994893.stm UPDATE Source: BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7994783.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7994794.stm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...break-home.html The two burglars wander through the house, munching on cheese from the fridge. They take time choosing their loot, safe in the knowledge that no one is watching. But as it turns out, someone was – from 25 miles away. Amazing what technology can do, she looks like she left the door open, the curtains are flapping. Her dogs are next to useless too.

Couldn't help but notice that this seems to amount to nothing more than a new way to use a PCSO. Personally I'd have rather seen the money spent on additional resource in Roads Policing. It's another example of the slow drift towards 2 tier policing. In the video the PCSO makes reference to someone "playing with their hair" which I don't think really amounts to distracted driving unless of course it's accompanied by a obvious lack of control! I think the AA guy is spot on with regard to the 'community relations' angle, this form of enforcement creates resentment on the part of the public... but it is of course cheap! CCTV cars snap distracted drivers …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7987341.stm Why do we feel the need to appease the public about everything so they can sit and judge on things they have little or no knowledge about? I fully understood why family court was shielded, now, well....

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/justice-and-...?-200904033248/ From the Freedom Association website. http://www.tfa.net/ Friday, 03 April 2009 Accepting the disturbing reality of Britain in 2009 Earlier today the Director of the Adam Smith Institute, Dr Eamonn Butler, was being filmed by a camera crew in Great Smith Street, London as part of an interview about the G20 for Canadian television. This perfectly innocent and lawful activity came to the attention of the police, being reported as 'suspicious' because they were not far from two 'sensitive' government buildings - the Department for Children, Schools and Families and Department for Business, Enterprise & Re…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/11/g...-police-actions

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7986838.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7986838.stm Even though this is an illegal protest we are still able to facilitate peaceful protest

Read it on the BBC this morning, but further details have been released since saying it was a Police Officer involved: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7693216.stm

More failings found, the Police and Social Services are getting a tough time out of this case, and maybe rightly so however what people must realise is nobody is to blame for this child death other than the B*****DS who caused him his injuries and then failed to do nothing about it..........May they rot in hell.