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A convicted drugs offender has escaped a confiscation order for up to £4.5 million of his assets because legal aid barristers would not take on the case for the fixed fee of £175.25 a day. In a dramatic illustration of the impact of new legal aid fees, the man had to act for himself and won an appeal for the confiscation order to be set aside because he was not represented by a lawyer. Eighteen sets of chambers had been approached in London, Leeds and Sheffield – involving a total of 30 barristers – to see if they would defend the man identified only as P in the confiscation hearing. Jansen Versfeld, the solicitor who conducted the fruitless search for a barri…
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Police should be harassing badly behaved youths by openly filming them and hounding them at home to make their lives as uncomfortable as possible, the home secretary will say today. The crime initiative is part of a government strategy to win back voters by proposing more radical approaches to tackling deep seated problems. In a speech in London the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, will acknowledge that the number of antisocial behaviour orders being issued is falling, but will argue that there has been a shift to the use of parental orders instead. As part of the crackdown on bad behaviour, she will urge police forces across the country to follow the example of Essex pol…
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After a drunken assault on a policeman, Lee Jones might have thought he had done well to escape with a suspended sentence and a night-time curfew. But the best was still to come. A judge has now agreed to lift the curfew so the offender can fly off on a golfing holiday in Portugal. The decision was condemned as "outrageous" by campaigners Jones, 24, was given a six-month suspended jail sentence only last month and ordered to stay at home between 8pm and 5am after he admitted punching a police officer repeatedly in the face. Yesterday his probation officer returned to Gloucester Crown Court to ask for the curfew to be suspended between May 8 and 13 so that Jones can…
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http://www.polfed.org/Letter_to__MPs_HomeS...aker_060508.pdf http://www.polfed.org/mediacenter/2F46BC58...520450A07AE.asp
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SIR Alan Sugar last night called for BILLIONS to be spent on the police force to mend Broken Britain. The Apprentice guru said “rotten†yobs need to know they will be brought to book if they cause trouble. In a passionate plea, he demanded “radical†investment from the Government to get thousands more bobbies on the beat. The Amstrad tycoon — worth £880million — also urged troubled kids to get off the dole and use their streetwise skills to achieve success in business, craft or sport. He BLASTED “crazy†human rights rules which tie the hands of cops and teachers. And he RAPPED the parents of hoodies for alienating their teenagers by ignoring them. Spea…
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/156...-Ian-Blair.html By Philip Johnston Page 1 of 2Last Updated: 2:08AM GMT 02/11/2007 I know this is old news, but does make for very intresting reading. Last week he was in the dock over his bonus. Now his force has been found guilty of health and safety breaches over the De Menezes shooting. Here Philip Johnston argues that the Met chief has come to personify all that is wrong with the police He looked every inch the top cop. Resplendent in the uniform of the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair was facing what should have been a routine monthly meeting of London's police watchdogs. They gathered in an unpreposse…
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Full Story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...70&ito=1490 Quite ironic that the Home Office introduce barmy NCRS standards, and then there is outrage when it is discovered that Forces are doing perfectly legal bureaucratic crap to make sure that they meet their fantasy targets. It is sad that the only people who appear to care about recorded crime are politicians and those they force to record it.
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What were some of you saying about ITV's 'The Bill'?
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Full Story http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/busi...icle3876570.ece Words fail me.
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Police raids on homes and businesses across the UK are expected as officers seek to make further arrests in connection with the seizure of cocaine worth £15 million. Officers from Cumbria Police targeted two lorries entering the UK from Holland at the port of Harwich, Essex, on Saturday morning. The force said it was one of the biggest seizures made on the UK mainland. So far, seven British men have been arrested and police say raids are taking place at private and business addresses across the UK. Among those arrested are a 49-year-old man from the Kendal area. Detectives revealed the operation was the result of a "major" intelligence gathering operation led by the…
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Police are investigating the "suspicious" deaths of two young boys found in a parked car in Glasgow. The bodies of a two-year-old and a six-year-old were discovered on Crow Road in the Lennoxtown area of the city. Strathclyde Police have not confirmed exactly where the bodies were found. Inspector Jan Connolly said: "Police are investigating the suspicious death of two children aged two and six years old. "They were found this evening within a parked car. Police are following a positive line of inquiry." Officers blocked the B822 Crow Road to all traffic heading north out of Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire. A recovery van was allowed through the roadblock. The van, …
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The only terrorist to escape alive when the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London 28 years ago is on the point of being freed to build a new life in Britain. Iranian diplomats say they have been told a parole hearing will be held within weeks. They expect Fowzi Badavi Nejad to be freed soon afterwards and granted asylum. Officials in Tehran have demanded his return so that he can face trial in Iran for the murder of two hostages during the siege in 1980, which would lead to an inevitable death sentence. But the Daily Mail has learned that preparations are under way for 50-year-old Nejad, who is Iranian, to spend the rest of his life in Britain. Iran has warned…
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An investigation is underway after a pedestrian died after being hit by a police van. The man, in his 20s, had been walking near a roundabout on the A41 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, just before 3am today. A woman with the un-named victim was uninjured as were two male officers in the marked Vauxhall Vivaro van. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has been informed and a post mortem examination will be carried out next week. A spokesman for West Mercia Police said: "We are anxious to hear from anyone who saw the collision or the circumstances leading up to it. "We are also appealing for anyone, in particular passing motorists, who may have spotted the man and w…
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7374879.stm looks like something a bit different!
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A teenager who broke a police officer's nose with a vicious head-butt in an attack posted on YouTube has been given a suspended sentence. James Davis, 19, assaulted Sergeant Kenneth McNish after the officer appeared to strike at the teenager during the one-minute clip on the popular video sharing website. The footage, apparently filmed on a by-stander's mobile phone, showed Davis thrusting his head at the officer. The end of the video shows blood flowing from Sgt McNish's nose, as the pair grapple on the ground in Hornchurch, east London. Davis pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm. Judge Timothy Lamb QC sentenced Davis to four months in a young offende…
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