UK Policing News

So how you all reacting to Cheshire's top man moving across the North West to Manchester? BBC News

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/24/u...ernationalcrime Maybe should technically be in 'Policing Overseas'. How I laughed

A 12-year grammar school girl was held by police for more than an hour and questioned on suspicion of shoplifting after trying on nail polish on one finger in a shop. Hannah Gilbert painted one fingernail in the peach coloured Revlon varnish at a branch of Boots in Folkestone, Kent, after failing to find a suitable tester. She was caught by a security guard, questioned by three police officers who checked for criminal records and detained until her parents came to collect her and pay for the polish. Barry and Cheryl Gilbert said they were read their rights and told their daughter could be forcibly restrained because she was over the age of 10 - even though she had made…

THE HEAD of Cheshire Police will be the next Chief Constable of Greater Manchester. Peter Fahy, 49, had been the favourite to succeed Michael Todd. It was his second attempt to secure the post - he applied for the job as head of GMP in 2002 but was runner up to Mr Todd. The married father of four has a reputation for being outspoken. He has advocated recruiting more ethnic minority officers to tackle terrorism. In 2004 he suggested officers from ethnic minorities should be promoted ahead of white colleagues. He criticised the Bishop of Chester in 2003 for comments he made suggesting gay people should seek psychiatric help. Mr Fahy led the investigation into the deat…

Man died 'urinating on live rail' A man was killed at a busy railway station when he reportedly urinated on the track. British Transport Police confirmed the 41-year-old was electrocuted at Vauxhall station in south London last week. He walked on to the track from Platform 1, a BTP spokesman said. According to reports, the Polish tourist went to find somewhere discreet to go to the toilet but his urine splashed on to the live rail. He was said to be a married teacher who was visiting the UK to improve his English. A spokesman for London Ambulance Service said a fast response unit and two ambulances were sent to the station but the man died at the scene. According…

What's this country's judicial system coming too David Bieber who murdered in cold blood Pc Ian Broadhurst, by shooting him in the head at point blank range has has won an appeal against his "whole life" prison sentence. According to the old men that sit in the Court of Appeal that is about as old as them stated: 'The facts of Bieber's case, horrifying though they were", did not justify a "life means life" sentence.' The American will now serve a minimum of 37 years.

The man involved in the rooftop drama A MAN hurled bricks during a rooftop protest as police tried to arrest him.The incident happened in Brougham Terrace, Hartlepool, and the man was on the roof for almost two hours as a large crowd gathered. Uniformed officers sealed off the road between the Hartlepool Enterprise Centre, in Brougham Terrace, and Raby Road, with police tape. Nearby Mapleton Road and Turnbull Street were also partially sealed off in the interests of public safety. Police confirmed that they attended the scene yesterday morning to arrest the man in connection with a minor offence. But he escaped and climbed on to the roof of a property on the corner o…

Mother protests over knife event An event thought to feature knife-throwing at a town festival has been changed after the mother of a stabbed girl complained. The knife-throwing, which the council said would have been an illusion, was to be held at an event in Walsall. But Karen Ross, whose daughter was Rosie, 16, was stabbed to death in Birmingham's Centenary Square in May 2001 said she was dismayed. "People are trying to get knives off the street, not on them," she said. "I was really dismayed when I read [the council] were putting on an entertainment in the street involving knives. "It goes against everything that everybody else is campaigning about. "We are try…

Child knife sellers 'not jailed' No one was jailed for selling a knife to a child in England and Wales in the five years up to 2006, it has emerged. Most of the 71 people convicted of selling knives to under 16-year-olds were fined, but mostly less than £500, despite the maximum fine being £5,000. Only one person was given a community sentence, despite the maximum sentence being six months in prison. The figures, up to the end of 2006, were revealed following parliamentary questions by the Liberal Democrats. Last year the ban on selling knives was extended to under-18s, but these figures are not yet available. 'Pitiful' The Liberal Democrats described the fines i…

BBC Hope he is not too serious injured and recovers soon.

http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/news/pr080708_northantssummons.htm A Northamptonshire Police constable has been summonsed to face a charge of dangerous driving following an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) independent investigation PC Paul Hollands, based at Campbell Square Police Station, has been summonsed to appear before Northampton Magistrates Court on 21 July 2008 to face the charge. The charge relates to the collision of a police vehicle with an 18-year-old Northampton man during an attempted arrest on 11 November 2007 on Weedon Road. The incident was independently investigated by the IPCC. -ends- Notes for editors: At approximately 9.30pm on 11 Nov…

Somehow i don't think he'll be on the Batphone to the "commissioner" to get himself out of this one

Court win for shot man's sister Mr Saunders was shot at least five times by police The sister of a barrister shot dead by police has won permission to challenge the handling of an investigation into his death. Mark Saunders, 32, died after exchanging fire with officers in Chelsea, south-west London, in May. Sister Charlotte is seeking a ruling that police unlawfully collaborated in their submissions to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Mr Justice Charles ruled that she had "an arguable case" at the High Court. Officers were called to Mr Saunders' home on 6 May after reports that a gun was fired from his house. Armed police subsequently fire…

Daily Mail - Source Shocking neglect by two PCs that should be sacked? or Typical of the end of a Friday and Saturday night. Another semi naked crying drunk women helped to go on her way home with no reason for Police to suspect she had been raped?

'Speeding driver' killed boy, 3 Joshua Venn-Howells was badly hurt in the crash and died the next day A speeding motorist ran over a three-year-old boy playing in the road and carried on his journey without stopping, a jury has been told. Darren Jenkins, 25, denies causing the death of Joshua Venn-Howells by dangerous driving in the St Mellons area of Cardiff in July last year. Mr Jenkins told police he was aware he had hit something but did not know what, Cardiff Crown Court heard. Joshua was injured in the crash and died in hospital the following day. Tom Crowther, prosecuting , said it was their case that Joshua was "clearly visible" as the driver of the ca…