UK Policing News

A former Metropolitan Police officer has avoided a jail sentence after strangling his wife during an attack. Pere Daobry, a firearms officer with the Met for 12 years, assaulted Sarah Jay two days after Christmas last year when she said she didn’t love him any more. After an argument, the 44-year-old attacked the former Essex Police sergeant, strangling her until she was unconscious He then called 999, confessing: ‘I want to report an assault and I am the perpetrator. I have assaulted my wife.’ The dad-of-four added: ‘I tried to strangle her.’ Daobry, who was married to Mrs Jay, 42, for two years before the attack, later denied assaulting her but was found guilty aft…

Julian Cole, a sports science student, suffered severe brain damage in 2013 Criminal charges could be brought against five police officers after a man was paralysed following an incident outside a nightclub. Julian Cole suffered a broken neck outside Elements nightclub in Bedford in May 2013. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has examined the circumstances around the arrest. It said there may be a case to answer for gross misconduct and has made a referral to prosecutors. Bedfordshire Police has confirmed four of the officers in question remain on active duty and one has retired from the force.Four of them could face a charge relating to their hones…

New drivers could now face disqualification if six points are applied to their licence for driving while using a mobile phone. Motorists caught using their mobile phones while driving will automatically receive six points on their licence instead of the current three and on-the-spot fines will be doubled from £100 to £200, the government has announced. Newly qualified drivers, who have a ceiling of six points for their first two years on the road, could immediately lose their licence if they are caught. The tougher sanctions are being brought in amid mounting concern about a lack of prosecutions and convictions and a failure of the public to take the offence of using a…

What are people thoughts on the protest today at London City Airport? I viewed the video promoting the idea that pollution has now started to victimise BME people, having policed London for a number of years I have heard many good points put across but this just seems to be drivel put across to stir up racial tensions...thoughts?

Two men have been detained over a Speke shooting that left a four-year-old child injured. Four people were injured in the double shooting on Wednesday night. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/two-men-held-suspicion-attempted-11881123#ICID=FB-Liv-main

Mayor Sadiq Khan and Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe were at the Met Police passing-out parade in Hendon London's police are "more representative" of its diversity with the force having 4,033 officers from minorities, the commissioner has said. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said London had changed in the past 10 years and the Metropolitan Police had "not been able to keep up with that diversity". This year 79 of the 311 new recruits are BME. In total, 13% of the Met's total police workforce is non-white. The Met Police Federation said BME officers should also be rising in rank.Of the 311 new recruits at Friday's parade, 79 are from minority backgrounds The Met said the numb…

A police sergeant was so disgusted by a teenage gang's attack on a 75-year-old pensioner he urged parents to control their 'darling, drunken kids'. Lancashire police officer's plea to parents goes viral after teenage attack on pensioner | Daily Mail Online http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3787202/Control-darling-drunken-kids-Police-officer-s-plea-parents-goes-viral-teenage-gang-s-sickening-attack-pensioner.html

I am one of more than 60 frontline police officers in the capital who have been taken off the streets and reassigned for half the year to handle the flood of 999 and 101 calls that police call centres can no longer deal with. I joined the police to make a difference, but now I'm stuck in a call centre http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/sep/10/metropolitan-police-officer-call-centre-999-cuts?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard Sure that this story is repeated across the nation, staff welfare always seems an afterthought no matter where you work. It could be interesting series of articles.