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Theresa May has been branded "deluded" by one of Britain's top cops after she insisted there was no direct "causation" between officer numbers and crime levels. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/theresa-branded-deluded-frontline-officers-13348052 She is so deluded it is scary,
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Home News Unexplained Wealth Order challenge dismissed Return to News 03 October 2018 In February 2018 the National Crime Agency successfully applied for Unexplained Wealth Orders requiring explanations to be provided as to how properties in the South East of England, valued in the region of £22 million, had been funded and purchased. One of the respondents, a Political Exposed Person from a Non EEA country, sought to challenge the Orde…
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Return to News Two brothers have been jailed for five years each for smuggling 22 stun guns disguised as torches into the UK following a National Crime Agency investigation. Donatas, aged 27, and Giedrius Armalys, aged 23, both Lithuanian nationals, were also given three and two months respectively to run concurrently for having indecent images of children on their mobile phones. They were sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court yesterday (1 October), after pleading guilty to the offences at an earlier hearing. The NCA investigated the pair after Border Force officers stopped the brothers in a car at Dover Eastern Docks on 10 March. A search of the vehicle uncov…
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Violent criminals in London are getting younger and attacks are becoming “more ferocious,” a top Scotland Yard officer warned today. Chief superintendent Ade Adelekan issued the warning as he revealed the Violent Crime Taskforce he heads has made 1,361 arrests and seized 340 knives since its launch six months ago. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/londons-violent-criminals-getting-younger-and-more-ferocious-top-met-cop-warns-a3951106.html
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Civil partnerships: Law to be changed for mixed-sex couples 2 October 2018 Related TopicsConservative Party Conference Image copyright Getty Images Heterosexual couples in England and Wales will be able to choose to have a civil partnership rather than …
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A police officer was “not acting in the execution of his duty” when he wrongly arrested a Bristol man in Castle Park https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-man-cleared-police-assault-2031949
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Scott Pritchard murder: Woman jailed for life for 2004 killing 1 October 2018 Image copyright Northumbria Police Image caption Tunmore handed herself in to police and admitted murdering Mr Pritcha…
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Lee Rhodes, beat up a man for no reason, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. Rhodes 24 without provocation approached the victim who was asleep and launched a vicious attack. This was Rhodes second offence as when he was 18 he was sentenced to 8 years in prison for beating up another victim so badly that the victim suffered brain damage. Ikeston thug sentenced to 16 years for beating up someone for no reason
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Photo credit: STEPHANIE MACKENTYRE A police car on an emergency call ended up crashing into a village war memorial after hitting another vehicle. The marked car crashed with a Mini Clubman on Ixworth Road in Norton, Suffolk, at about 13:10 BST. The driver of the Mini suffered a wrist injury and officers had minor bruising. Norton Parish Council chairman Andy Burt said he heard sirens before he saw the police car "ramping up the war memorial after hearing an enormous screeching sound". Mr Burt, 35, said the memorial was "probably the most prominent point" in the village and was "probably even more prominent now because it's got a police car …
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Return to News Four men have been jailed for a total of 47 years after being found guilty of smuggling the ‘Breaking Bad’ drug crystal meth through the UK and onto Japan. A National Crime Agency investigation uncovered the criminal gang were trafficking the Class A drug methylamphetamine – making at least 17 trips between the UK, Turkey and Japan. The head of the gang Majid Rasoolzadeh, aged 46, from Alderley Edge, Cheshire, and his ‘trusted lieutenant’ Jan Pasulka, aged 34, from Plymouth, who both absconded after the three-week trial began at Manchester Crown Court, have been sentenced in their absence to 16 years and 12 years respectively. For their role i…
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Return to News 28 September 2018 A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to nine and a half years in prison after admitting to directing couriers to smuggle over £1 million of cocaine into the UK in their suitcases. NCA investigators identified Dutch national Wellington Rodriguez Pena, who was living in Wolverhampton, as the organiser behind two separate importation attempts to smuggle a total of 14kg of cocaine. In October 2016, he booked return flights to Aruba under a fake name for two people at a travel agents in Coventry. Esteban Berenguer Buhigas, aged 57, and his wife, Ana Maria Perez Davila, aged 36, both from Barcelona in Spain, were arrested on their…
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A police officer has resigned after he was allegedly caught having sex with a solicitor in a police station interview room. The unnamed officer is alleged to have been found with the female lawyer at Cockett police station in John Street, Swansea, Wales Online reported. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-officer-sex-station-resign-south-wales-swansea-female-solicitor-a8548886.html
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Scottish police officers secure 6.5% pay increase 26 September 2018 Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionThe award will be backdated to 1 September and applies until 31 March 2021. Scottish police officers are to receive an immediate 6.…
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Scotland Yard partially relaxed its ban on recruiting candidates with tattoos on Wednesday as it launched a drive to hire 2,000 more officers in the next year. In future candidates who have visible tattoos will be considered “on a case-by-case basis” instead of being automatically rejected as in the past. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-police-relaxes-ban-on-recruits-with-visible-tattoos-a3946336.html
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Police Scotland has outlined plans to invest £298m in its computer systems over the next nine years https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-scotland-45633212 Hope it works out for them, sounds like a big project. £86m net return then? If the sums are right.
