UK Policing News

Image copyright BCH Road Policing Image caption Police stopped the car when an officer recognised the driver A "prolific road traffic offender" pulled over by police was driving while disqualified and with 51 points on his licence. Officers stopped a car in Lincoln Road, Peterborough, on Friday after they recognised the man behind the wheel as a banned driver. On Twitter, Beds Cambs and Herts Road Policing said: "He has 51 points on his licence. Yes, that is 51." The driver was reported to court and his car seized, police said. "He's clearly a prolific road traffic offender and has amassed a significant number of points in a relatively sh…

Police force representatives believe station cutbacks explain why arrests have halved nationally even though crime has been soaring. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9006788/police-cutbacks-cells-suspects-walk-free/

Image copyright Google Image caption The black BMW failed to stop near the junction of Ruthin Road and the A483 dual carriageway A police officer has been injured after being struck by a car as the driver tried to flee. North Wales Police said officers tried to stop a black BMW 3 series in Wrexham but the PC was hit "as the driver of the vehicle attempted to run from it". One man has been arrested after the incident on Sunday at about 17:00 BST on Ruthin Road while one person remains "wanted in relation" to the incident. Police are appealing for witnesses and dash cam footage. Officers are looking for a black BMW 3 series, registration num…

THREE men have been injured in a triple shooting in east London tonight, with one fighting for his life. The victims, believed to be 23, 28 and 30, suffered gunshot wounds in the shooting on Leyton High Road. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9006182/leyton-triple-shooting-three-injured-fighting-for-life-london/

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The officers being investigated were mostly based at Charing Cross Police Station Met police officers were violent towards women, bullying and racist, according to allegations being investigated by the police watchdog. A misconduct inquiry was launched after an officer allegedly had sex with a vulnerable woman in a room inside a London police station. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the officers were part of a disbanded "impact unit". Scotland Yard said it was "fully co-operating" with the inquiry. In all, 12 officers or former officers are being investigated. Mobile pho…

Image copyright Spindrift Image caption Sgt Simpson called for backup after a man pulled out a machete A police sergeant has told a court of his fear as a machete was swung at him on a Dumbarton street. Brian Simpson, 44, said he had never been threatened in that way during a 19-year police career. He told a jury the incident began after he was called to reports of a man acting suspiciously. At the High Court in Glasgow, 31-year-old Craig Brown denies attempting to murder Sgt Simpson in September last year. Describing the weapon, Sgt Simpson said: "There was absolutely no need to be walking about the streets with it. "If that had stru…

A man suspected of raping three women may have been wrongly released from prison, it has emerged. Joseph McCann, 34, is being hunted by police following the abduction of two women aged in their 20s who were separately snatched off the streets of north London last Thursday. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/joseph-mccann-man-suspected-of-raping-women-in-north-london-may-have-been-wrongly-released-from-a4131966.html

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Fewer than a quarter of domestic abuse allegations against police staff lead to disciplinary action, news figures suggest Police officers and staff accused of domestic abuse are a third less likely to be convicted than the general public, figures from 37 forces suggest. They show 3.9% of claims against police led to a conviction from 2015-18 in England and Wales, compared with 6.2% among the population as a whole. Police domestic abuse lead Dame Vera Baird said the issue does not "appear to be taken as seriously" as it should. The Home Office said it was bringing in reforms "to improve police integrity…

Image copyright Getty Images Anti-social behaviour that leaves victims "living a nightmare" is being ignored by authorities across England and Wales, a report warns. Victims' Commissioner Baroness Newlove said police, local councils and housing providers were downplaying the harm caused by crimes such as vandalism. Victims being repeatedly targeted were left to "suffer in silence", she said. Police chiefs and the Local Government Association said they took anti-social behaviour seriously. But their resources were under strain and they needed more funding to tackle the problem, they said. People 'scared to be in their homes' Syringes …

I have followed this case and tried to view it through an objective lens but, through doing so, I suspect that an Appeal Court will overturn this ruling. The Jury convicted Hepburn of ‘oral rape’ in relation to the pre-intercourse act of oral sex before the actual sexual intercourse, whereby the Jury chose to disbelieve the victim that she ‘laid back and kept her eyes closed’ for a duration of sex that lasted circa 20 minutes before realising that her sexual conquest was with an entirely different (albeit, a far better looking) person than the random shag she chose to go home with. That is, the Jury (by inference) accepted that she inadvertently performed oral …