UK Policing News

A Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked after faking an application to have a parking ticket overturned. PC Christian Ciobanu, from Barnet police, was dismissed after admitting he made a fake entry on a police database in a bid to have a Penalty Charge Notice quashed. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/met-police-officer-struck-off-over-parking-ticket-plot-a3460041.html

A Met police officer has been sacked after he subjected a 999 call operator to a tirade of racist abuse. PC Seni Gulati, who was based in Hounslow borough, called for an ambulance after his fiancée had injured herself at a golf venue in Surrey in July last year. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-police-officer-sacked-after-tirade-of-racist-abuse-at-999-call-operator-a3487081.html

Police in a Berkshire town have said they will not send out officers to deal with shoplifters who steal goods worth less than £100. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/10/police-tell-town-will-not-chase-shoplifters-steal-less-100/

Police in a Berkshire town have said they will not send out officers to deal with shoplifters who steal goods worth less than £100. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/10/police-tell-town-will-not-chase-shoplifters-steal-less-100/

A north London man who momentarily blinded a police officer by shining a laser pen at a helicopter has avoided jail. Limshin Chung Ching Wan, 42, shone the green laser into the cockpit of a police helicopter as it passed over East Finchley in January this year. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/north-london-man-who-shone-laser-beam-at-police-helicopter-and-blinded-crew-member-avoids-jail-a3486916.html

A senior officer with the police watchdog has stood down while her handling of a probe into the actions of an ex-policeman are examined. Commissioner Jennifer Izekor, of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), has been accused of perverting the course of justice. Ex-Met officer Mark Gatland claims the IPCC suppressed evidence that could have cleared him. An IPCC investigator has also been suspended. Last month, Police Scotland opened an investigation into the handling of Mr Gatland's case. At the time Commissioner Izekor issued a statement in which she said: "I welcome the scrutiny by an independent body into the serious allegations t…

Police Scotland has outlined plans to cut officer numbers by 400 as part of its 10-year policing plan. Chief Constable Phil Gormley said recruitment levels would remain unchanged in the current year, but would begin to slow between 2018-20. He said resources would be re-directed to frontline operations, amid big financial challenges. Last December, the spending watchdog said Scotland's police service was facing a £188m funding gap by 2020-21. Mr Gormley said officer numbers had been at historic highs but said some staff had been used for corporate, rather than community roles. As part of a new strategy, Policing 2026, he said police officers would…

More than 2,720 motorists were caught using mobile phones while driving in a week-long police crackdown in London, it was revealed today. Patrol officers used covert cars and lorries to snare drivers using mobiles at the wheel in a capital wide operation that ended yesterday. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/2720-motorists-caught-in-police-crackdown-on-mobiles-while-driving-a3485206.html

A student was shot in the back of the head with a ball bearing gun as he sat on the top deck of a London bus. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/student-shot-in-head-with-bb-gun-on-london-bus-for-wearing-a-police-cap-a3482551.html

There is no such thing as 'finders keepers', police have warned, after they prosecuted a shopper who pocketed £20 she found lying on a shop floor. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/28/no-thing-finders-keepers-police-warn-prosecute-shopper-pocketed/

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Shaun Walmsley was one of four men convicted of a "vicious" murder in 2014 Police hunting for a convicted murderer who escaped custody in Liverpool have arrested four men in Dorset. Armed officers hunting for Shaun Walmsley detained them during a swoop on a car in the Canford Cliffs area of Poole on Friday afternoon. Eyewitnesses reported loud bangs and pink smoke as police cars blocked the Vauxhall Corsa's escape in Haven Road. Walmsley, 28, escaped during a hospital visit last month. On Saturday night, police said the men had been released. The Merseyside force said the arrested men - two 24-year-olds, both from Toxteth, a 25-year-old from Maghu…

This is the bizarre moment a group of escaped horses that ran amok in north London were walked down a busy high street by police. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bizarre-moment-police-walk-escaped-horses-down-busy-high-street-after-they-run-amok-in-north-london-a3481611.html Escaped horses were marched down a north London high street by police officers. Police were called to St Albans Road, Barnet, just after 01.00 GMT on Friday when motorists reported the horses were causing a hazard on the roads. Police cars were used to block traffic as the horses were brought under control. They were later returned to…

A Kent Police inspector has been charged over making and distributing indecent videos. Timothy Ryton, 45, originally from Folkestone, was arrested on 23 January and released on bail to an address in Essex, Kent Police said. He has been charged with distributing indecent images, two counts of voyeurism and making and distributing indecent videos. Mr Ryton is due to appear at Crawley Magistrates' Court on 29 March. The officer was suspended from duty following his arrest and will be subject to internal disciplinary proceedings "in due course", a police spokesman said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-39155536