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A new neighbourhood policing team has been put together to target offenders on the East Coast Mainline. The team, set up by the British Transport Police, will cover the route from Grantham in Lincolnshire to Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland. The team will be based at York station but each will have their own geographical areas of responsibility. The officers will travel on the trains, talking to passengers and staff about issues that concern them. Ch Supt Terry Nicholson said: "We will be running regular operations and initiatives in the area to target particular offences and we want to make sure we are really working closely with local rail users and rail staff t…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7883277.stm Police officers in Derbyshire say new technology is helping to reduce paperwork by a third. Anyone here wearing one, when out at work? :thumbsup:

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Makes for interesting reading. The day I was punched in the face, I was so appropriately dressed I might almost have seen it coming. I was wearing glasses and holding a pile of library books. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb...ime-justice-cps

Something wrong here surely...

It seems our pot smoking Home Secretary, who all Police Officers love has been a little naughty. Think one of our MET colleagues need to look further into this! Daily Mail Peter Obourn - Daily Mail

Macquarie who acquired Airwave from o2 just over 2 years ago have kept there promise that jobs would only be safe for an initial 2 year agreement. The axe fell today as they have stated that 12% of Operations staff and approx 10% of the rest of the company will be cut. :ph34r:

Two North Wales Police officers who were filmed kicking and throwing their pet dogs around have lost pay, but been allowed to keep their jobs. Pcs Anja Mason, 29, and Craig Macleod, 34, have both been docked 10 days' pay, the force has confirmed. They admitted causing suffering to the two dogs after a neighbour filmed the abuse at a house in Prestatyn. They were also given community sentences and were banned from keeping animals for five years. A hearing at Denbigh magistrates' court was told that RSPCA officers had been called to the home the pair shared on a number of occasions in spring 2008 by a concerned neighbour. However, on each visit, inspectors were un…

Check out his defence! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7881682.stm A police officer has told a jury that a motorway crash was so horrific a doctor could not identify how many people had been travelling in the vehicle. The remains of David and Michelle Statham, of Llandudno, north Wales, and their four children had to be removed from the wreckage by specialist teams. They died instantly in a crash on the M6 in Sandbach, Cheshire, in October. Portuguese lorry driver Paulo Jorge Nogueira da Silva, 46, denies causing death by dangerous driving. …

A policewoman has been charged with helping her son who is accused of murdering teenage model Amy Leigh Barnes, Greater Manchester Police has said. Melda Wilks, 49, has been suspended from West Midlands Police after she was charged with assisting an offender. She is due to appear at Bolton Magistrates' Court later today. Her son, 21-year-old Ricardo Morrison, was arrested by police and charged with his former girlfriend's murder in November. He remains in custody. Miss Barnes, 19, died of knife wounds in a Bolton hospital on November 8 last year. At 11.40am police were called to a house in Moss Street, Farnworth, following reports a woman had been stabbed. Morrison,…

The personal life of former Greater Manchester Police chief Michael Todd damaged the reputation of British policing, a report has concluded. Extra-marital affairs he conducted did not impact on his ability to do the job, the inquiry by West Midlands chief Sir Paul Scott-Lee found. But there was "significant potential for compromise" to his position as chief constable, the report said. Mr Todd, 50, was found dead near the summit of Snowdon last year. Sir Paul's inquiry was ordered to look into whether Mr Todd's personal life had adversely affected his duties as chief constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP). Details of his relationships with other women emerged …

The Sun Top political analyist Katie Price believes rapists should be raped and people who steal have dye on their skin! Leaves me a few questions tho: How do miscarriages of justice affect her plan? And whos job will it be to rape these people?

Traffic police in Scotland have been ordered to stop using handheld speed detecting equipment amid fears it could be affected by police radio waves. Road policing units were told to employ alternatives to the Visual Average Speed Computer and Recorder (Vascar) system until further notice. It is thought police radios could be causing faults in the speed detectors. The system sees an officer pressing a button as a vehicle passes between two measured points. It has been in use for 25 years. Strathclyde Police confirmed its officers had been asked to use alternative speed detectors while the concerns over the impact of the police radio system Airwave on the device w…

I agree they should be given stop and search (if not already), i think also with pcsos they're there for the community so should have their current uniform in my opinion (but this can often make them wrongly labled) Also am i wrong in saying i have saw pcsos with stabbys already? or is this force specific? I think pcso's are vital and should be given basic powers of detaining suspects etc so i agree with the extra powers. Any opinions? Police community support officers (PCSOs) may be granted extra powers, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said. She stressed that PCSOs were not a replacement for police officers, but that they could play an important role. Expanded po…

http://cms.met.police.uk/news/convictions/...to_kill_officer Spence fired his shotgun at the officer damaging his patrol car 23 years, now that`s more like it. :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: