UK Policing News

My town had 18 officers on the beat 10 years ago. Now there are four. The service we provide is woefully inadequate - but not for the want of trying... https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2017/may/20/police-cuts-fewer-officers-unrelenting-pressure

Armed police descended on Finsbury Park on Sunday night after three teenagers were allegedly spotted carrying guns. Firearms officers joined Hackney police as the dramatic scenes unfolded right outside the busy north London station. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/armed-police-descend-on-finsbury-park-after-teenagers-spotted-carrying-guns-a3544831.html

TWO cops parked illegally with blue lights flashing — so they could grab some posh pizza. Full Story - The Sun Looks like The Sun have really outdone themselves this time, the so called reporter has interviewed the restaurant manager,who confirmed the officers spent £8 or more on each pizza and the pizzas were loaded with wild boar, salami, watercress and organic tomato. As for the police car, was it parked illegally? Who knows? Maybe they were grabbing some lunch for a suicidal person who had requested some food? Maybe a hostage taker had requested some food and to keep the peace the officers have gone out to buy some food, hence the flashing lights? …

Special police constables will soon be patrolling parts of Powys on horseback in a bid to tackle rural crime. Dyfed-Powys Police launched its mounted special constabulary at the Spring Festival in Builth Wells. It follows the success of a similar scheme in Norfolk and it is hoped it will encourage horse owners and riders to volunteer as a special. Special Inspector Giles George said officers on horseback will "increase visibility" in the community. S Insp George has been a volunteer with Dyfed-Powys Police for more than 20 years and will be one of the first officers to take to horseback. He said he saw how successful the scheme was in N…

Part of Great Dunmow was sealed off following the stand-off Officers who shot a man holding a replica gun at them "acted reasonably", a police watchdog has found. Stephen Debley told passers-by to call a newspaper as he was going to have "a shoot-out with the old bill". Debley was shot and injured in Knights Way, Great Dunmow, in September 2015 after threatening to kill police officers with a gun. An Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation report found officers "had to take action". Image caption Police were shouting "put the gun down", a resident said Debley, from Dunmow, was the first person shot by Essex Police in mo…

This was the dramatic moment a knifeman grappled with police and tried to escape from a ‘stop-and-search’ in northwest London. Duval Evans, 19, was subjected to a routine search by police officers near Austen Road in Harrow on April 11. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/dramatic-footage-shows-knifeman-try-to-flee-from-police-stop-and-search-in-harrow-a3544126.html

This is the shocking moment a policeman was wrestled to the ground by a woman as a laughing mob watched on. Full Story - Daily Mail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biUOfD7QupI&feature=youtu.be Does shouting BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!! give you the right to resist arrest and assault police? Some people use the race card to give them the excuse to behave like idiots. The camera man is a tool, laughing away like an idiot

Britain’s top police officer Cressida Dick said the vast majority of Londoners support increased police stop-and-search powers to combat “outrageous” levels of knife crime in the capital. Met police commissioner Ms Dick reaffirmed her commitment to driving down the epidemic - which has seen 14 murders from knife-related attacks in the past four weeks - after coming face-to-face with families in Wandsworth, a borough where three people have been stabbed to death this month. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/cressida-dick-most-londoners-want-police-to-have-more-stopandsearch-powers-a3543226.html

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The IPCC viewed CCTV footage from inside the cell at Chelmsford police station A police officer has been charged with common assault after allegedly beating a prisoner in a custody cell. It follows a review of CCTV footage at Chelmsford police station by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). The commission has now referred the case to the Crown Prosecution Service. PC John Senior will appear before magistrates in Chelmsford at the end of May. The Essex force said the incident happened on 1 November after the man was arrested and detained by police in Chelmsford. PC Senior had been on duty. The charge relates to alleg…

Victims of crime will be asked to make their own online reports under "self-service" plans by West Midlands Police. Chief Constable Dave Thompson said he was exploring the online methods of crime reporting for less serious offences as part of efficiency savings. Police Federation chairman Steve White said the proposals were "barmy". The force said people will not be forced to use the service, but they will be an "extra option". Under the plans, members of the public would submit their own statements for less serious offences such as criminal damage, shoplifting and bilking - where people leave a shop or garage without paying, Mr Thompson sai…

Police in Durham are preparing to go live with an artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to help officers decide whether or not a suspect should be kept in custody. The system classifies suspects at a low, medium or high risk of offending and has been tested by the force. It has been trained on five years' of offending histories data. One expert said the tool could be useful, but the risk that it could skew decisions should be carefully assessed. Data for the Harm Assessment Risk Tool (Hart) was taken from Durham police records between 2008 and 2012. The system was then tested during 2013, and the results - showing whether suspects did in fact of…

It must be good news week. This morning I awoke to, the great news that Ian Brady is dead. My father worked on the original enquiries and was amazed at some of the rubbish written about Brady and Hindley. As far as he was concerned they were the most evil people he ever met. Neither showed any remorse for their actions. May they both now rot in Hell.