UK Policing News

Good to see this had a safe ending, taking into account how dangerous it must have been, the outcome could have been very different.

Driver trapped underwater in car The woman had just been able to breathe despite being trapped A woman has been rescued after becoming trapped in her car underwater in an accident in Wiltshire. Her vehicle came off the A360 at Littleton Panell, near Devizes, and landed upside down in the water. A police officer who was the first to arrive at the scene of the accident jumped in to free the woman and carried her to the bank. She was taken to Bath's Royal United Hospital with injuries which are not considered life-threatening. The woman had just been able to breathe, despite being trapped upside down in the water for about 10 minutes. The officer who rescued he…

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/P...tockport_Murder A murder investigation has been launched after a policeman on foot was killed in a hit-and-run crash. Our thought are with their families.

How on earth can this judge think that a 33 year old woman sleeping with a vulnerable child does not warrant a jail sentence. The offence was aggravated by the fact that she was in a position of trust, and yet still he lets her walk free.

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A judge has criticised Lancashire Police for failing to breath test a teenage mother who crashed a car in killing an 18-year-old man. It was "inexcusable" that Kayleigh Ann Goodwin, 18, of Rockliffe Villas, Bacup was not breath tested, Judge Beverley Lunt said at Burnley Crown Court. Goodwin was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving and jailed for four-and-a-half years. Craig Cronshaw died after Goodwin's car crashed in Stacksteads. Her friend Ruth Bailey was also injured when the car crashed after they had been on a night out in December 2007. Goodwin was speeding at up to twice the limit on a winding 30mph road when she crashed in wet conditions a…

A man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and causing criminal damage after a car was driven into the front of a police station. The green Rover 420 crashed into the main doors of the building at Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, shortly after 0530 GMT on Sunday. Dyfed-Powys Police said the man had been bailed, but detained under the Mental Health Act. Officers appealed for witnesses to come forward after the incident. The force said there was minor damage to the door. BBC News Online

A burglar broke into a detective's home in Northamptonshire and stole his unmarked police car after disabling the CCTV camera with a bin bag.Richard Howell, 33, covered up the camera's motion sensors before an accomplice fished out the keys to the officer's unmarked Saab 95 car through the letterbox. Northampton Crown Court heard that the car, containing a police force computer, blue lights, and uniform has never been recovered. Stuart Yeung, prosecuting, said the officer had gone to bed on July 14 last year, locked the front door but left the car's keys on show downstairs. When his partner got up the next morning, the front door was unlocked and two sets of car keys w…

Police are preparing to face a "summer of rage" in the UK as people join protests over the economic downturn, says a senior Met Police officer. "Known activists" were likely to foment unrest, with the recession creating more "footsoldiers" to join them, Supt David Hartshorn told the Guardian. The G20 meeting of leading and developing nations in London in April is expected to be a focus of protests. Supt Hartshorn heads Scotland Yard's public order branch. He is regularly briefed on potential civil unrest. The officer said that the established activists "would be good at motivating people, but they haven't had the 'footsoldiers' to actually carry out [protests]. "Obv…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...faces-jail.html A drunk teenager smashed a tortoise to pieces with a baseball bat, a court heard. With the way things are, will he get longer for killing this creature, then say, killing a Police officer?

A mother-of-three, whose business made more than £20m from selling high speed boats to drugs cartels, has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence. Ellen George, 43, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, had pleaded guilty at Ipswich Crown Court to five counts of trying to defraud the Inland Revenue. She also admitted possession of criminal property and helping someone else to retain criminal property. The court heard her partner Richard Davison had absconded. The court was told that George was involved in a multi-million pound money laundering and a drug running scheme. Money contaminated The case was so complicated HM Revenue and Customs took five years to investig…

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Police negotiators are talking to a man inside a factory who is believed to have an explosive device. The man entered Alfred Knight metal works in St Helens, Merseyside, around midday, prompting bosses to evacuate the works. Police say they are talking to the man, who was described as "acting suspiciously" and armed officers have surrounded the premises. Workers have been evacuated from the building in Prescot Road, and locals roads sealed off. Superintendent Peter Edge, of Merseyside Police said: "All employees have been evacuated and fully accounted for. "The man is contained in the main office block of the building. "Negotiators are in direct contact with him in …

US teen in 'fake policeman' stunt The boy managed to aid an arrest during his five-hour shift Seven Chicago policemen face discipline after a 14-year-old boy impersonated an officer for several hours. The teenager spent more than five hours acting as an officer after sneaking into the station dressed in a store-bought police costume last month. Authorities have admitted that he spent two hours behind the wheel of a squad car and went on five assignments. Supt Jody Weis said that the case exposes troubling lapses in police department policy. She said the teenager slipped past officers on 24 January, after sneaking into the police station through an unlocked bac…

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