UK Policing News

Hey all Saw this article and noticed it hadnt been posted. "Senior police officer has been attacked by a gang and hit with a brick while out with his wife and son. He was targeted by four people - one a girl of 15 - in Surrey. Det Supt Gary Richardson, 49, deputy chief of Operation Trident, the drive against gun crime in black communities, was attacked in West Molesey. The attack happened in October, but the Metropolitan Police confirmed on Sunday that Mr Richardson was the victim. Four people have been arrested and bailed." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7744591.stm

Daily Mail Clampers clamping emergency vehicles is nothing new but if an ambulance, police car or fire engine got clamped and there was an emergency call requiring the attendance of one of these vehicles... would we have the power to remove the clamp by force? I'd say yes, common law allows us to use reasonable force if someone is in imminent danger and the criminal law act allows us to use reasonable force in the prevention of crime and apprehension of offenders. Would we be able to get away with these interpretations though?

A father was arrested by police and locked in a cell overnight after smacking his son's bottom. Mark Frearson says police action was "over the top" Mark Frearson's young son had wandered off alone after dark while they were at a Plymouth shopping centre together. Mr Frearson, who is separated from the boy's mother, found his son in a park 10 minutes later and smacked him once. But a passer-by reported it to Plymouth police and four officers arrived at his house, took him away and locked him in a cell awaiting questioning. Mr Frearson, 47, a director at a parcel company, was released the next day at 1000 GMT, after the witness who had reported the smacking was inter…

http://www.norfolk.police.uk/article.cfm?a...&bctrail=-1 .. shame there isn't a picture to cringe at!! EDIT:

I thought this might be worth promulgating via this forum , if in wrong place please move , This is a standard procedure all paramedics follow at the scene of an accident when they come across your mobile phone. ICE - 'In Case of Emergency' We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends. If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? H…

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Source (Liverpool Echo) TWO Liverpool drug barons, who escaped lengthy prison sentences by pretending to be supergrasses, were jailed for even longer today. John Haase, who got 22 years, and his nephew Paul Bennett, who received 20, repeatedly "tipped-off" the authorities about arms stashes across the country. London’s Southwark Crown Court heard their "unique" co-operation finally resulted in rare royal pardons and early freedom. Altogether an "awesome array" of 150 handguns, rifles and machine guns were seized across Britain, along with grenades, masses of ammunition, fake Semtex, drugs and stolen property. Jurors were told although police had increasing doubts …

Just add a footnote here, Lee moved to Hertfordshire about 14 years ago and is originally from Warrington.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1945774.ece Why would they ever allow this fellow out?

Police and teachers on BNP list Serving and former police officers, teachers and soldiers are listed as members of the British National Party in a leaked document published online. The list, which dates from 2007, has the names, addresses, jobs and phone numbers of more than 10,000 people. Since 2004, police officers have been banned from being members of the BNP. The party's leader, Nick Griffin, said the leak was "a disgraceful act of treachery" by former members and called for a police investigation. In a statement on the BNP website, Mr Griffin said he had lodged a complaint with Dyfed-Powys Police on the grounds that the publication breached human right…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6959562.stm Unbelievable.

BBC Website I hate the inevitable statement "The matter has been referred to the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC)" They fought the law and they lost, end of!

Three people have been killed after their car crashed into a garden wall in a police pursuit in Greater Manchester. One other person in the Vauxhall Vectra was critically injured in the crash, which happened at about 0330 GMT on Middleton Road in Oldham town centre. Police on a patrol stopped the car after it went through a red light, then pursued it when the driver drove off. Two men and one woman died and another woman was critically injured when it went out of control and overturned. Middleton Road, at its junctions with Broadway and Hunt Lane, has been closed for investigations into the crash. Paul Kelly, 40, a warehouse manager who lives near the scene, s…

An MP has accused a police force of double standards over the way it deals with staff who have criminal records. Lib Dem MP Chris Huhne said Hampshire Constabulary had sacked a civilian worker for shoplifting. Yet he said figures on the force's own website showed serving police officers had 43 convictions for offences including assault, fraud and gun crime. Hampshire Constabulary said: "All cases are dealt with according to their individual merits and circumstances." Mr Huhne said the sacked civilian worker had contacted him over what she thought was unfair treatment. The criminal records of the Hampshire officers include: Two offences of possessing an offensi…