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Long leg of the law: Police unveil stilt-walkers as latest weapon in crackdown on binge drinking http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10...lt-walkers.html So, did it work? It is one way of getting the girls.

A former Metropolitan Police officer has been sentenced to six years in prison for blackmailing 11 sex offenders and suspected criminals. Pc Amerdeep Singh Johal, 29, from Ilford, east London, used the force's criminal intelligence system, CrimInt, to access and download their details. Johal was found guilty on 12 counts of blackmail and one count of misconduct in a public office at the Old Bailey. He claimed he sent the blackmail letters last July under duress. Jurors rejected Johal's tearful claim that he had been forced to send out the blackmail letters by two men who had approached him and threatened his family. Judge Gerald Gordon told him: "You grossly a…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...court-told.html Credit-crunched building boss spat in police officer's face after row with his girlfriend, court told 180 hours unpaid work, 2 years inside. It is my view, that spitting is disgusting, into a Officers face, even worse.

Some excellent detective work there. Presumably the theory that was never proved was that either the owner was the driver, or possibly Johal was the driver who then colluded with the owner to ditch the car. They obviously knew what they were doing to be able to lose any forensic evidence.

Agree or disagree? http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=11109 As the Home Secretary shelves legislation meant to increase police accountability, Lynda King Taylor talks to senior officers who say that to deliver a fair and equitable service government needs to think again.

Sheriff astonished as car thief released after a third of his sentence http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburg...hief.4817664.jp Published Date: 23 December 2008 A SHERIFF has described as "breathtaking" the decision to release an Edinburgh man sentenced to 32 months in prison on an electronic tag after serving just 10 months. Within a fortnight, Jason Montgomery was discovered in a stolen car in Galashiels and tried to escape after being cornered by a police car. The 22-year-old was said to be fleeing Edinburgh because his life was in danger and had been given the car by a man known only as "old Alex". But it emerged it had been stolen during a break-in to a ho…

A Broadmoor patient has pleaded guilty to killing former model Rachel Nickell, who was stabbed 49 times in front of her young son 16 years ago. The 23-year-old was attacked as she walked with her two-year-old son on Wimbledon Common in south-west London on 15 July 1992. Robert Napper, 42, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. An Old Bailey judge said Napper would now be held in Broadmoor indefinitely. Mr Justice Griffiths Williams said: "You are on any view a very dangerous man. "You still present a very high risk of sexual homicide which can only be managed in a high security hospital." Victor Temple QC, prosecuting, said…

I'm sure some of your will think this is a wonderful idea... But I think you need to consider the real reason for the number of sharp decline in prosecutions for Careless Driving. I don't think the amount of paperwork is really the issue, it's got more to do with the continued erosion of RPU resource (consider the dates 1986 to 2006) and a lack of willingness on the part of overstretched response resources to deal with 'traffic' matters. More new 'Speedy Summary Justice' and revenue creation... not to mention the apparent fulfilment of a target based on a false outcome, an FPN is not the same as a charge of Careless Driving and never will be. http://www.telegraph.co.uk…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7764069.stm In my view a terrible decision. Perhaps the judges should go and see a few families of murder victims or those who have been raped where the crime was solved by DNA. The Sally Ann Bowman murder comes to mind - her murderer was found from a DNA match when a sample was taken from him when nicked for D&D.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...uthorities.html Thank god for that... Still it might be because she knew that labour backed candidates would struggle to win. "Former home secretary David Blunkett has now been asked to prepare a report to her on how to achieve a consensus within Labour on how to make the police more accountable." Oh dear!

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/M...il/article.html The bit that made me laugh ""Jonathan Dee, mitigating, said that apart from the stash of cannabis there was no evidence that Parker was involved in drug-dealing"" No only a 10k stash hahaha. Just like we police officers play jokes getting words in on the radio, or making fun of the unfortunate etc etc do you think solicitors sit round laughing at the next bit of mitigation they are going to get in at court?

A man has been shot dead by police in Surrey, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has said. He was killed by officers from Surrey Police at about 1500 GMT, after they responded to reports of an armed man in the city of Guildford. Investigators from the IPCC are already at the scene, a spokesman said. The IPCC said it would not release the man's identity or any further details at this stage, but was investigating the shooting. In a statement, the IPCC said: "The IPCC investigators already deployed to the scene are in Guildford and will provide an assessment for IPCC Commissioner Rebecca Marsh, following a referral of the shooting by Surrey Police. "The…

We have folks from Scotland on here, wishing to see more from Scotland. http://www.strathclyde.police.uk/index.asp?docId=6107 WD Strathclyde Police!! :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: :smiley_notworthy: