UK Policing News

The Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime Division (SCD) has advised South Wales Police that there is sufficient evidence to prosecute 15 people involved in the trials of five men for the 1988 murder of Lynette White. Police Constable John Howard Murray, Detective Sergeant Paul Stephen, Detective Constable Paul Jennings, Wayne Pugh, Graham Mouncher, Richard Powell, Thomas Page, Michael Daniels, John Brian Gillard, Peter Greenwood, John Seaford, Rachel O’Brien and Stephen Hicks are summonsed with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice contrary to Section 1(1) and Section 1(3) of the Criminal Law Act 1977. The first three are currently serving officers with Sout…

Probe after woman is hit by police car on zebra crossing An investigation has been launched after a police car hit a pensioner on a pedestrian crossing in Lincoln. The Lincolnshire Police Ford Focus had its blue lights on and was en route to the scene of a crime when it collided with the woman as she crossed Burton Road. The accident happened near the junction with Kingsley Street at 2.45pm yesterday. …

Published Date: 01 March 2009 An HIV positive man has been arrested after a series of women complained he had unprotected sex with them, without mentioning that he had the virus. The 39-year-old, reported to be an ex-serviceman, is said to have had unsafe intercourse with 'a number' of women in the East Devon area, police said. The man, from Bournemouth, was arrested and questioned over his alleged failure to let his lovers know about his HIV status. He was released on police bail until May 11. Devon and Cornwall police have not revealed how many women have made statements, nor their current states of health. A force spokesman said: "Devon and Cornwall Police can conf…

See here. Seems like a pretty believable story to me?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7917958.stm The credibility of community sentences is at stake because offenders who breach the orders are not dealt with firmly enough, a study says. I think i could have told you this without going to Kings college.

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Pol...t-HQ.5025571.jp Very poignant, I think.

A woman given an Asbo for making repeated suicide attempts was arrested near cliffs just hours after failing to overturn the order, it has emerged. Emergency services were called out near Aberystwyth last Friday to Amy Beth Dallamura, 45, of Hove, Sussex. Aberystwyth magistrates had refused to lift her anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) just hours earlier. A previous court hearing heard how she had cost emergency services nearly £1m after they had rescued her 50 times. Ms Dallamura moved to live with relatives in Hove in September last year. But she returned to Aberystwyth, where she once lived, on 20 February to try to persuade magistrates to lift the Asbo which ba…

A fantasist stole thousands from his girlfriend after duping her into believing he was an MI5 secret agent sent to protect her from being poisoned by her boss. By Stephen Adams Last Updated: 2:53PM GMT 18 Feb 2009 Whisky shop salesman Wayne Gouveia cheated Leanne McCarthy of £14,000 after convincing her that her jeweller boss was about to poison her with anthrax powder in her mail. He even made the 21-year-old jeweller's assistant sign the Official Secrets Act to keep up the pretence that he was a James Bond-style secret agent. Miss McCarthy was taken in by Gouveia's story when they worked in shops in Turl Street, Oxford. After Gouveia, 25, pleaded guilty to thre…

A nurse was showered with gifts after she and her boyfriend stole £23,500 by stealing from eBay customers, a court heard Louise Gregory, 27, along with then-boyfriend Jason Hart took the money from at least 28 buyers in Britain and across the world but the goods were never delivered, Bolton Crown Court was told. They included the "sale" of 20 Xbox consoles worth a total of £5,000, mobile phones, watches, and tickets to Test Matches, the Rugby World Cup, Ryder Cup and pop concerts. Unemployed Hart, who the jury heard had already admitted fraud, bought the couple a holiday, splashed out £2,300 on a car for his girlfriend and gave her gifts for her house. But after he…

Policeman held over Uefa violence Greater Manchester Police want to trace 49 men over the violence A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in a violent football riot following a Uefa cup match in Manchester. The man arrested, a serving officer with Essex Police, was identified as a suspect from CCTV images published on Greater Manchester Police website. Detectives used the photos to trace 49 men following disorder by Rangers fans after cup final game on 14 May 2008. Greater Manchester Police said the man, 44, has been bailed until 2 June. Trouble began before kick-off in the game between Rangers and Zenit St Petersburg. An estimate…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7917620.stm A car thief threatened to shoot a police officer during a chase in Greater Manchester Hope you lot catch this bloke, sharpish. :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy:

At a time when so many people have negative attitudes towards PCSO, it's wonderful to have some very good positive appreciation for PCSO. I've copied this from another site... Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) have been praised after they helped rescue a man from drowning in London's Camden Lock in freezing conditions. On Saturday 7 February, at 17:58hrs, the male PCSOs were patrolling the area when they were alerted to a man who had fallen into the canal and not resurfaced. One requested assistance via his personal radio while the other used a torch to conduct a search of the water. Very quickly the PCSOs spotted a body beneath the surface. One of the o…

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An Oxfordshire woman who had sex with a 14-year-old boy with learning difficulties, has been given a 12-month suspended jail sentence. Catherine Armstrong, a special needs tutor, from Thame, met the boy after agreeing to help him with his dyslexia. At Oxford Crown Court the 33-year-old admitted three charges of sexual activity with a child. Sentencing Armstrong, Judge Julian Hall told her: "You now have the chance to rebuild your life." Judge Hall said: "In prison there aren't any facilities for helping female sex offenders. ---------------------------- If we change the genders, to a male tutor and female (or even male) pupil, I suspect that the judge wouldn't ha…

Fake officer steals car with baby A thief posing as a police officer dumped a baby on a pavement after finding him in a car he had stolen. The child was in the back of a silver Lexus stolen by a man wearing a police jacket in Bolton, Greater Manchester. His parents endured a "horrendous" wait before the boy was brought back to Hypatia Street in a different car - a Nissan Micra - about 30 minutes later. Officers hunting for the Micra found it crashed, and a 39-year-old man was arrested. Greater Manchester Police said the parents' ordeal began at 1715 GMT on Thursday when the mother was approached by a man while sitting in her Lexus. Believing he was a police …