UK Policing News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/7850785.stm The mother of Sarah Payne has been appointed to the post of "Victims' Champion". The post will last one year during which Mrs Payne will be involved in Criminal Justice policy making in order to put forward a view for victims of crime. Sounds quite useful, but it must to lead to a rather damning question: Are our MPs in such high ivory towers and so completely out of touch with reality that they have to appoint a token victim of crime to tell them what it's like to be a victim? Are they living in a eutopian fantasy completely untouched by the ills of life that the rest of us have to cope with? Do they have no imagina…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7074936.stm A female police officer has been seriously injured after being hit by car driven by a man she was trying to arrest. The WPC from the West Midlands suffered head injures in the incident in Hayes, west London, on Friday morning. She was arresting the man in Bath Road when the suspect fled and got into a car and knocked the officer over as he drove off. The Metropolitan Police is treating the incident as attempted murder.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/...t_Worse_To_Come Small businesses are cutting jobs at the fastest rate in nearly 20 years - and there are predictions the situation is going to get worse. So why bring this up here? The Police are making cut backs in some areas of the UK, as shown in another news article in this section, as are other businesses. Are these companies in the article above doing it to themselves i ask. I give you an example, i had a contract with Tmobile which ran out last month, i was paying them £10 a month for 200 free min, and lots of text messages. This contract has been rolling over for 8 years, now they decide they want £20 a month. I c…

Man killed visiting newborn son Poice scene in Croydon The victim's three-year-old daughter was unhurt A man has been stabbed to death as he travelled to hospital with his young daughter to visit his wife who had just given birth to a boy. Police said the man had become involved in an argument with a second man which led to the fatal attack. Det Ch Insp Cliff Lyons described the circumstances surrounding the murder as "particularly tragic". He said the man's three-year-old daughter had not been injured in the attack on Thursday evening. The man was attacked outside a Lidl supermarket in London Road, Croydon, close to West Croydon railway station, at 1815 GMT on Thu…

Source: The Bolton News Am sure his friends will welcome him back in there circle of friends when he gets out of prison in a couple of months. Im sure if you live in Bolton you would understand how high profiled it was because everyone in Bolton knew what had happened and wanted to find the killer. And I have to say well done to the GMP who worked on the case (even though its there job) and the witnesses who gave evidence against Leon. And the strangest thing is, you see murders which are in the paper, but this one has seemed to got everyone together and find out the killer.

the title sounded intresting so i clicked the hyperlink and read the full story. Police officers in Gosport and Fareham have issued a warning about a supply of heroin which may be dangerous. The warning comes after officers received information to suggest that this dangerous supply of heroin is in circulation in the Gosport and Fareham areas. At this time, officers do not have any information about whether or not this batch of heroin is different in appearance. However, police would urge anyone who has any information about this supply of heroin to get in touch. Detective Inspector Justin Norris, said: “It is important that people are aware of the consequences of …

THE family of a teenager killed in a stolen car crash today said he had paid the ultimate price for getting into trouble. Daniel Harding, 17, died at 5am after suffering serious head injuries in the smash yesterday evening. The teenager from Kirkby was a back-seat passenger in a blue Mini that had been stolen on Monday. Police said it had sped off after failing to stop when spotted by officers in Maghull and crashed with another vehicle and a wall. The driver and the front-seat passenger fled the scene and are being hunted by police. Today Daniel’s devastated father Joe said: “I would say to them ‘face up to what you have done’. “You’ve run away from the…

I picked this up in my local rag, no online link yet..... Two senior Hampshire police chiefs are being investigated over allegations they broke the Official Secrets Act. A major inquiry concerning the alleged leak is being led by the Metropolitan Police. One of the pair at the centre of the inquiry is former assistant Chief Constable Steve Watts, who was interviewed under caution by officers in South London after attending a police station voluntarily on a day off. Mr Watts retired from the force six days after being quizzed. However, he was a serving police officer at the time the claims were made. The other is thought to be an inspector who was arrested a day before …

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...cliff-edge.html Hang on a minute, lads... camper van hangs on cliff edge as Italian Job gone to Colorado How did he get up there? :clapping:

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Surprised that this hasn't been talked about already!! Appears that at last some common sense has been applied by a judge! http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/406...legal_loophole/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7847593.stm Hampshire Constabulary has announced it will axe 200 jobs - 100 of them police officer posts - by the end of the year. Are Hampshire the only ones we now know of? There is an answer to all this, and an answer i have NP with. Set up more speed traps, make the money somehow. Other question is, were they over-staffed in the first place?

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/S...ce_Commissioner If you have the time, i am sure you can spend it in a useful way on here, helping those who need it. WD on getting the job, hope it all works out well in the future. :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy:

Source: Strathclyde Police Good on the cadets, see they are helpful

https://www.airportcommunity.org/default.cfm Access Level: Enforcement Get Airport Community on your mobile by using your phone browser and going to: www.airportcommunity.org/mobile General Crime. The defendant accused of causing horrific injuries to a West Midlands DC was yesterday cleared of all counts at the Old Bailey. Detective Constable Cathy Corbett, 39, suffered horrendous head injuries as a result of the incident at a hotel near Heathrow in November 2007. She was with a team of colleagues from West Midlands Police when she was run down by a blue Peugeot 207. The incident happened shortly after 8am at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel in Bath Road, Hayes, on the n…