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Police have warned of a crackdown as Donald Trump and Tommy Robinson supporters prepare to link-up for a mass march in central London. Activists attending a 'Welcome Trump’ protest on Saturday will march from the US Embassy in Nine Elms to Whitehall, where organisers say they intend to join a ‘free Tommy Robinson’ rally. Scotland Yard says the protests will be subject to a series of restrictions “due to concerns of serious public disorder and disruption to the community”. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/donald-trump-and-tommy-robinson-protests-met-police-crack-down-on-weekend-demonstrations-a3886286.html
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Return to News 12 July 2018 A Wolverhampton man who acted as a wholesaler to drug dealers in the West Midlands has been ordered to pay back £742,270 in a confiscation hearing. Daljinder Bassi, 36, was jailed for 13 years in February this year following an investigation by the National Crime Agency and Met Police Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). Bassi used various hiding places in his home, including under the floorboards, beneath the insulation in the loft and within the wall cavities, to store cash and class A drugs in powder, rock and block. The cash hidden in the walls was only accessible from the loft using a home-made pulley system. OCP officers sea…
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Return to News 12 July 2018 Three men have been convicted for their role in a plot to import 89 lethal firearms into the UK following an investigation by the joint Metropolitan Police and National Crime Agency’s Organised Crime Partnership (OCP). In early 2017, OCP officers established that an organised crime group were involved in the importation of a large number of illegal weapons from mainland Europe. They shared information with Border Force officers based at Coquelles, France, who stopped a vehicle before it entered the Channel Tunnel en-route to the UK on 1 July 2017. Searches of the vehicle’s trailer revealed 79 viable 4mm and 6mm handguns and thou…
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A West Midlands police officer has been removed from frontline duties after he was filmed telling a black man: “You’d be the first one I’d shoot if I had a gun.” Full Story - Guardian Clearly the officers like most of us are sick of the hypocrisy of BLM, and the comment about shooting the man was made in jest, however these videos just give more ammunition to BLM and the like, which is ridiculous.
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Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield will go on trial 29 June 2018 Image copyright Reuters Image caption An order preventing David Duckenfield being tried was imposed following a private…
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A former head of counter-terrorism policing has urged the Government to inject more resources into the “bedrock” of neighbourhood policing. Sir Mark Rowley, who retired from Scotland Yard in March, said it was right to cut police funding during the austerity drive as crime rates were falling, but said forces now needed extra cash to combat rising threats such as knife and gun offences . https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/police-need-cash-to-tackle-rise-in-knife-crime-says-former-met-antiterror-chief-a3883426.html
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8 July 2018 Police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman exposed to nerve agent Novichok in Wiltshire died. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital on Sunday evening after falling critically ill on 30 June. Charlie Rowley, 45, who was also exposed to the nerve agent in Amesbury, remains critically ill in hospital. Theresa May said she was "appalled and shocked" by the death, which comes after t…
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A man in his 30s has died after being arrested and taken to a police station. Greater Manchester Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over the incident late last night at Ashton-under-Lyne and the Independent Office for Police Conduct has decided to launch an investigation. http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsmanchester/man-dies-after-being-arrested-and-taken-to-police-station/ar-AAzHGWw?ocid=iehp
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Boy charged with rape and murder of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail 6 July 2018 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tributes to Alesha were left alongside a school photograph of her …
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A drink-driver put a policeman in a headlock and lifted him by the nostrils after being pulled over, a court heard. David Bull, 37, is accused of using "savage levels of violence" against two officers in Tavistock, Devon. He put Sgt Dave Clarke in the "choking headlock" and dislocated another officer's knee, Plymouth Crown Court heard. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-44550339 Man accused of assaulting Devon officer 'suffering PTSD' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-44567349
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Leeds crash: Horsforth collision leaves four men dead 30 June 2018 Image caption The A6120 outer ring road remains closed in Horsforth Four young men died and a teenage girl was left critically il…
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It appears from the Sky News report that the jury in the Hillsborough Inquest have returned a verdict of "Unlawful Killing". They also ruled that the supporters behaviour did not contribute to the disaster. I think this is the verdict that he government wanted ......................No doubt they will now be looking for scapegoats! Sad
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The number of volunteer police officers across England and Wales has fallen by a third in five years, figures show. In total, 43 forces had 6,558 fewer "specials" in September 2017 than in 2012. Ian Miller, chairman of the Association of Special Constabulary Officers (ASCO), said volunteers who joined the regular service had not been replaced. Police forces said although there were fewer officers they were "out and about" more. The fall in the number of specials has come alongside a drop of nearly 20,000 regular officers in England and Wales between 2010 and 2017, a fall of 14%. Mr Miller said the "shrinking number" of specials was "a real concern…
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A police officer 'harassed' a husband and wife after they complained when they saw him eating Lidl crisps they accused him of stealing from their kitchen during a search. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5900965/Couple-wins-payout-officer-caught-munching-Lidl-crisps-CCTV-harassed-them.html Has the Country gone mad? What a strange story over a packet of crisps.
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Two police constables who enjoyed cocaine-fuelled nights of passion at a football club hotel have been jailed. Married Adam Jackson and lover Kerry Reeve, both aged 36, were having an affair at the time they consumed the Class A drug while off-duty from their roles in Greater Manchester Police's tactical aid unit. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-officers-jailed-after-cocainefuelled-affair-at-football-club-hotel-a3871631.html
