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Police open fire after car 'driven at officers' in London 13 April 2019 Officers opened fire in west London on Saturday morning while responding to reports of a car collision, the Metropolitan Police has said. The Ukrainian embassy said its ambassador's car was "deliberately rammed" as it sat parked out…
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Police detectors to warn mobile phone-using drivers 12 April 2019 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Thames Valley and Hampshire Police are the first forces to use the mobile detection tec…
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Image copyright PA Image caption The four men flew into Luton Airport on Wednesday Counter-terror police have arrested four men on suspicion of being members of a banned organisation hours after they flew into the country. The four Sri Lankan nationals arrived at Luton Airport on 10 April and were arrested by police the next day. The Metropolitan Police said the men were stopped under the Terrorism Act 2000 and arrested under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. The four remain in custody at a police station in Bedfordshire. Membership of a proscribed organisation is contrary to section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000. https://www…
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An illegal immigrant found with 9.5 kilos of cocaine with a street value of nearly £1m has been jailed for 12 years following an investigation by the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). Suad Sufaj, aged 26, was stopped by officers as he travelled in a car along Bowes Road, Enfield, north London, on 26 September last year. A search of the car uncovered a kilo of cocaine with a street value of £100,000. OCP officers searched his home where they found another 8.5 kilos of cocaine worth approximately £800,000. Sufaj pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine and was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court Matt McMillan, f…
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A police officer may have to have a replacement knee after being run over by an off-road bike in West Lothian. The constable is understood to have been responding to complaints about anti-social behaviour involving a motorbike. The 51-year-old was called to Ryebank in Livingston at 13:40 on Wednesday following reports of a motorbike being used on a path. An 18-year-old man has been charged with road traffic offences. It is understood the officer suffered extensive damage to his knee and tibia bone and may now need knee replacement surgery. He is being treated in Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinbu…
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An unemployed university drop-out has been jailed for five years four months years after running a dark web business selling illegal drugs and for hoarding a catalogue of horrific child sex abuse images he wanted to sell for profit. Thomas White, 24, took over the running of the notorious dark web site Silk Road after it the FBI closed it in 2013. White, who left his accounting degree at Liverpool John Moores University after a single term, was an administrator of the Silk Road. But within a month of its shutdown he launched Silk Road 2.0. Like the original site, it used technology to allow users to anonymously buy and sell drugs, computer hacking tools and other ill…
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A police officer who was sacked for a racial outburst at an Asian takeaway has been given her job back after an appeal https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6850701/Police-officer-sacked-saying-wish-f-g-p-s-hurry-pizza.html
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A controversial new scheme sees firefighters given powers to arrest people in a bid to try and boost policing reach in rural areas. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/firefighters-get-powers-to-arrest-people-in-controversial-scheme-to-boost-policing-a4113826.html Wonder how this might work fireman to be trained up as special constables.
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Crucial evidence in an attempted murder case was stolen from under the noses of police in an audacious raid during rush-hour traffic just outside the Blackwall Tunnel, the Old Bailey has heard. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/raider-stole-vital-evidence-in-attempted-murder-case-from-boot-of-police-car-stuck-in-traffic-a4115386.html
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Two robbers who disguised themselves as undercover police officers are targeting men in east London, Scotland Yard said. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/robbers-posing-as-undercover-police-target-men-in-east-london-a4114571.html No wonder when they sell wallets like this on line Amazon or Ebay when some people don't know what a real warrant badge and card looks like.
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https://policehour.co.uk/2019/04/police-given-green-light-to-stop-locking-up-cannabis-users/ "Police Officers across the UK have been given the go-ahead to stop locking up cannabis users they will now be able to use a softer approach. It is now up to individual Chief Constables to decide if they want their police officers to arrest, caution, warn or let people walk free who are caught with the drug. The news was announced by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) announced the new approach, hoping that by encouraging cannabis users to seek treatment instead of prosecuting them, it could help lower re-offending rates."
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Scotland Yard is examining footage of a demonstration outside the Sultan of Brunei's residence in west London, after it appeared to show three police officers joining in the protest. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/05/scotland-yard-examining-footage-brunei-demo-three-duty-police/
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Image copyright Grice family Image caption Shana Grice was murdered by her ex-boyfriend who stalked her Three police officers are facing disciplinary action over the case of a woman who was fined for wasting police time when she reported the stalker ex who went on to murder her. Shana Grice, 19, reported Michael Lane five times before he slit her throat and tried to burn her body. Sussex Police said two officers - one retired - will face gross misconduct proceedings at public hearings in May. A third officer faces internal misconduct action. No further action will be taken against five officers investigated by the Independent Office for Po…
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A British fugitive has been tracked down by National Crime Agency officers and arrested in South Africa after 21 years on the run. Brandon William Pyatt, now 64, was convicted of a serious of fraud and deception offences at Chester Crown Court in 1998 and sentenced to five years in prison. However Pyatt, who is originally from Droylsden in Manchester, skipped bail during his trial and fled the UK, sparking a manhunt that lasted more than two decades. That ended in Pretoria last week when he was arrested by officers from the South African Police Service. They were acting on information supplied by the NCA as part of an operation to track down fugitives who continue of…
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Image copyright PA Image caption Figures show women at Leicestershire Police earn 68p for every £1 a man does The chief constable of the police force with the widest gender pay gap has said one reason for the gap was its recent recruitment of several female staff. Leicestershire Police has been found to have the largest difference between the median male and female salary of any force in England or Wales - 31.5%. Simon Cole said his force had "more women on the lower pay grades because they have just joined". Mr Cole said everybody was paid the same according to role. The figures from the gender pay gap service showed women at the force ea…
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