UK Policing News

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20081013...nt-6323e80.html Well done to all those who prevented this one!! :thumbsup:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7643747.stm A wheelchair user has gone on trial after a row escalated over a police van parked outside an officer's home. Martin James, 47, from Carmarthen, denies a public order offence and assaulting a police constable. It is alleged he continuously swore, insulted and spat at police and once in custody, twice slapped an officer. He was having his photo taken for a local newspaper next to the van when the row started and led to his arrest, Llanelli magistrates heard. Mr James, who lived in a nearby street, had contacted the paper to complain about the way the van was parked in the cul-de-sac. They were only trying to restrai…

A man was arrested after police seized a key fob gun during a stop and search in Greater Manchester. The miniature firearms are small enough to clip a key ring and capable of firing two .22 bullets at close range. The weapon was found after officers on patrol in Dukinfield on Friday night spotted a man acting suspiciously. As well as the loaded weapon, police uncovered a can of CS spray and drugs. The 25-year-old man who was arrested is in police custody. He is being questioned on suspicion of possession of a section one firearm and possession with intent to supply class A drugs. Det Con Barbara Offord said: "It is concerning to see how weapons can be disguised to…

Police say they have been forced to lock the main public entrance to Parliament after protesters attempted to force their way into the Palace of Westminster. Scotland Yard said none of the environmental demonstrators, campaigning against expansion at Stansted Airport, had managed to breach security. Six people were arrested, including a 23-year-old woman for breach of bail. A spokesman said an "appropriate policing plan" had been put in place to deal with the protest, which had been expected. Asked whether any protesters were able to get in to the Palace, Metropolitan Police Inspector Tim Barfoothe said: "No, we were able to deal with the situation." There had bee…

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/poli...icle4526426.ece Did anything become of Work to rule, in your station?

World's End: Police chief brands cleared serial killer 'evil' Tom Wood: History http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/World3...ands.4583961.jp Published Date: 13 October 2008 By MICHAEL HOWIE HOME AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT A RETIRED police officer who led the World's End murder case has branded Angus Sinclair, the serial killer who stood trial for the double murders, as "evil", comparing him to notorious Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. In a book to be published today on the infamous double-murder investigation, Tom Wood gives his account of a case that spanned 30 years and ended in agony for the families of the two young victims, Christine Scott and Helen …

Here is an interesting piece from Minette Marrin that I read in today's Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/c...icle4926558.ece

Story here. Good.

A Met police officer has accepted a public apology over a false claim that he ran down and killed a teenage thief. Mischa Niering, 19, died when his scooter hit a parked car as police chased him after a jewel robbery in Sloane Square, central London, in 2005. National News Press and Photographic Agency reported that Pc Gorbakhsh Singh told an inquest he "ran down" Niering. The agency accepted that its report was inaccurate and defamatory and agreed at the High Court to pay Mr Singh's costs. Mr Singh was one of the officers who pursued the teenager after the robbery at Tiffanys jewellers in October 2005. '50mph chase' He gave evidence at the Westminster Coroner…

Is this what passes for foreplay for our Welsh RPU colleagues :whistle2: :lol: Full story

Police officer delivers baby girl Baby Nikol weighed 2.95kg (6.4lbs) A police officer who planned to have a stern word with a driver who overtook him ended up helping deliver his baby. Pc Dan Wells was driving in south-west London when Michael Nadel, 39, flagged him down asking for help to get to The Portland Hospital in central London. Pc Wells called an ambulance but Mr Nadel, from Surrey, told him his wife's labour was moving faster than expected. "I didn't know what to do but I told the mum to push and out came the baby," said Pc Wells. It was fantastic. I'm very, very happy Michael Nadel, father Pc Wells said: "He [Mr Nadel] was behind us and overt…

The police investigation into the killing of a barrister shot dead by police during a five-hour armed siege was lawful, the High Court has ruled. A judge dismissed a claim by the family of Mark Saunders, 32, that the police inquiry into his death was unlawful. Mr Saunders died in a stand-off at his flat in Chelsea, west London in May. His family claimed the Independent Police Complaints Commission inquiry was unlawful as officers were allowed to confer before making statements. During the siege Mr Saunders fired at police officers, neighbours and buildings with a legally-owned shotgun from his £2.2m home in Markham Square. Conferring is not colluding. To sugges…

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Anger at police for Tasering runaway ram http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/14284/An...ring.4564748.jp Published Date: 07 October 2008 Wales: Police have come under fire for turning a Taser stun gun on a runaway ram on a busy dual carriageway. Drivers watched in horror as the rogue ram was stunned by a powerful charge from a Taser used by a north Wales policeman. The RSPCA is investigating but has hit out at the force.