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A pensioner has been left in a coma following a clash with police who sprayed him with an incapacitant as they put him under arrest. Case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission Officers used Pava spray to restrain 71-year-old James Finney, in Poole, Dorset, at around 7pm on Friday. They then gave him first aid when he became unwell and he was taken to Poole Hospital's intensive care unit. Police said doctors put him in a medically-induced coma and he was still in a critical condition. The case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which carried out an initial assessment and had yet to decide whether to launch a f…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.j...15/mdata115.xml """Police will keep driving records for five years By Sarah Knapton Police plan to map all journeys made by drivers on major roads and store the data for five years. A national network of roadside cameras will be able to read 50 million number plates each day enabling officers to reconstruct the movements of motorists. But civil rights campaigners have questioned why the data needs to be kept for so long and want reassurances on who will be allowed to access the information. advertisement The project relies on automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras which pinpoint the time and location of all ve…

EQUIPPING every police officer in the United Kingdom with a Taser would cost more than £161 million. A year-long pilot of the stungun with specially trained non-firearms officers draws to a close on Monday (1 Sept). Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told May's annual Police Federation conference that if it is deemed successful, Taser could be rolled out to all officers in England and Wales. Using the figure of £940 per Taser - the amount the Met Police Authority has paid for each of the less lethal weapons used in London - it would take £132 million in hardware costs alone to give a Taser to every officer in England and Wales. It would cost a further £28 million to eq…

A Police Community Support Officer was injured in an attack by a gang of youths in Hertfordshire. The PCSO was dealing with a row between a large number of youths at the Hartham Fair, in Hertford, when they surrounded and attacked him on Friday night. Police officers were sent to the site and closed the fair, searched individuals and made arrests. The PCSO had treatment for injuries to one of his hands, a police spokesman said. Ch Insp Jon Speed, of Hertfordshire Police, said: "This is totally unacceptable behaviour and it will not be tolerated. "In the line of duty a PCSO has been injured and I would appeal to anyone who has any information whatsoever about the…

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Pet bunny's ears prompt 999 call A woman dialled 999 because a rabbit she bought via a newspaper advert did not have floppy ears, Central Scotland Police have said. The force is urging the public not to dial 999 unless they are faced with a genuine emergency. The reminder comes after operators, who receive 34,000 999 calls a year, said the number was being dialled for "wholly inappropriate reasons". One call was from a woman splashed by a car which drove through a puddle. The force said staff were verbally abused after challenging her for using the emergency line for her complaint. Another man dialled 999 to ask call centre staff for the postcode to Grange…

Review into lawyer shot by police Mark Saunders was shot at least five times by police marksmen A judicial review into aspects of the death of a lawyer shot dead by police in London is to open at the High Court. Mark Saunders, 32, was shot after a siege during which he fired at police from his £2m house in Chelsea. The review will consider whether the practice of allowing officers to confer before making statements should be allowed to continue. His sister also says the family has not been kept adequately informed about the investigation's progress. Mr Saunders was shot by police at least five times at his house on Markham Square on 6 May, following a five-a…

The UK's second-largest police force has admitted it has lost a computer memory stick. West Midlands Police refused to reveal the nature of the data on the memory stick, but the Home Secretary has been informed of the blunder. It is the latest in a line of high-profile losses of sensitive equipment by public bodies. A police spokeswoman said: "We are conducting searches in an attempt to recover the lost item." He added: "We will not comment in relation to the contents of that memory stick." BBC News Oops…

http://www.polfed.org/Pf_news_issue_35.pdf The gorvernment wish to keep Police pay in line with inflation, the thing about the inflation figers is, they are not true to what the average person buys. ATM inflation figers are being kept down by cheap tv`s and other electric equipment, several other items are keeping the numbers down. In truth for what the average person needs to spend each month, food, gas, electricity, etc, inflation has risen, steeply. So, the figure the Police might be and should be looking for is 6%-8%.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/7616067.stm Boy robbed for chips at gunpoint A teenager has been threatened with an air rifle by a youth who demanded his takeaway food in County Durham. The boy had bought chips on the Parade at Arcadia in Ouston, Chester-le-Street when the youth held a gun to his face. After handing over his chips, the victim walked away, but then heard the weapon discharge and felt a projectile skim past his hand. The attacker is white, aged about 17, of medium build and 5ft 9in (1.8m) tall with a local accent. A spokesman for Durham Constabulary said: "Although the item of value stolen makes the robbery seem less than other offences o…

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article...icers-rude.html In my opinion, i think he is wrong, the public do in the main tend to side with the police. The chances are thou, it is the area of the public that the police rarely have to deal with. BTW i have yet to meet a rude Police officer, the 5 i met on Thursday were all perfectly pleasant, each took a flyer that IAN_C drew up, each thanked me, one of them was a member of this forum. WD Stoke Newington Police. :thumbsup:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7608459.stm Maybe a different choice in choice in costume, thou i see nothing wrong with it.

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i7...g5CXqnPHWf9d27w Thought an under performing staff, would soon be found out.