UK Policing News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-34676048 I'm all for technology, but this just doesn't sit right. Also this part of the article "Oz Merrygold, secretary of Cambridgeshire Police Federation, said that due to cuts to policing it is "just not possible anymore" to send officers out on crimes such as burgled homes." Thoughts?

Hundreds Of 'Ravers' Clash With Riot Police Four officers are treated for injuries after a "number of missiles," including a suspected petrol bomb, are hurled at police. 08:50, UK,Sunday 01 November 2015 Riot police with dogs, batons and shields have clashed with hundreds of people throwing bangers, bottles and chairs after an alleged illegal rave in central London. Police are investigating reports that a petrol bomb was also thrown during the confrontation. No officers were seriously injured, but four are understood to have been treated for injuries at the scene. The trouble erupted last night on Halloween as hundreds of people gathered on Black Prince Road at …

POLICE are so stretched they are ordering victims of crime to SKYPE them instead of seeing them in person. Police are asking people to Skype them to 'save time and resources' The scheme - believed to be the first in the country - is being trialled in Peterborough, Cambs., where the force faces huge budget cuts. Until now, people who rang 101 to speak to police were offered an appointment with an officer at their home. But under the trial members of the public will be invited to go to the station or speak to an officer on the phone - or on a video call via Skype. Cambridgeshire police claimed the Skype scheme would make their service more efficient and cost-effect…

By HeraldandPost | Posted: October 31, 2015 Cllr Danielle Stone The position of Police and Crime Commissioner in Northamptonshire should be... Next May we have Police & Crime Commissioner elections here in Northamptonshire and across England. Police and Crime Commissioners were set up by the last Coalition Government in 2012 despite opposition from both Labour and the general public. At the last general election Labour pledged to abolish them but the Conservatives wanted to keep them. Personally I still think they should be abolished for the following reasons. I am still concerned it causes politicisation of the police. Party politics sh…

Met Police officers have been asked not to wear a Union badge in tribute to fallen colleagues because it breaches uniform policy and could provoke ill feelings in some communities. Some officers were sent an instruction not to wear the charity badge following the death of PC Dave Phillips on Monday, it has been reported in the Sunday Express. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/611264/fury-officers-told-not-wear-UK-flag-badge-memory-killed-colleagues http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34499673 Fair bit of coverage on this on tv news, on radio and in the Sunday papers.

Southend residents call for teen curfew after yobs' reign of terror spreads from Clarence Street across town Clarence Street, where many of the youths congregate, but their impact is now being felt across the town centre FRIGHTENED residents have called for a curfew on tearaway teenagers in Southend town centre. Concerned residents and businesses from across the town centre contacted the Echo after yesterday’s report into teens terrorising workers in Clarence Street. Ruaidhri O’Briain, of Whitegate Road, called for a curfew for young teens after their antisocial behaviour spread to his street. He said: “We have gangs of track suited, feral, children aged …

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Police Federation PC Paul Kirwin was presented with the award by shadow home secretary Andy Burnham at a ceremony in London A Merseyside Police officer who disarmed and arrested a robber with a handgun has won a Police Bravery Award. PC Paul Kirwin wrestled the gun off the man who was pointing it at terrified shop staff in Litherland in July 2013. He had spotted the suspect acting suspiciously in an alleyway running between shops and a derelict building while on patrol with a colleague. Peter Singleton, chairman, of the Merseyside Police Federation, praised PC Kirwin's "quick thinking". PC Kirwin saw the man leaning through a door at the rear of one of the shops, p…

Police dog units to merge: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34657170 and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-34651262 Now why didn't someone think if 5 forces are merging units to create two separate units, why didn't the five forces merge to make one unit........

Three police officers escaped injury when a submachine gun was fired as they carried out inquiries. At least 14 shots were discharged from the semi-automatic weapon, damaging an unmarked police vehicle. Submachine gun fired at police officers in north-west London The Guardian http://gu.com/p/4dkhp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

The number of UK officers investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been cut from 29 to four, the Metropolitan Police says. The Met said the "vast majority" of the work in its inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance had been completed. It said no conclusion had been reached but it was now following a "small number of focused lines of inquiry" which was why the team had been cut. Madeleine's parents said they "fully understand" the decision. They said they remained "hopeful" their daughter would be found. Madeleine, from Rothley in Leicestershire, was three years old when she went missing from her family's holiday apartment at the Ocea…

Two of the country's most senior police officers have signalled that the era of routine patrols by "bobbies on the beat" has come to an end. The comments have been made by the chairwoman of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), Sara Thornton, and Craig Mackey, the deputy commissioner of the Met Police. They said funding cuts would lead to a transformation in investigating crime. The Home Office said police reform was working and crime was falling. The police service does not have a ring-fenced budget and has been told to expect a 25% to 40% reduction in funding in November's Comprehensive Spending Review. 'Funding from ba…

Can someone please tell me how the US can do things like this when in this country we are cutting everything that os there to help and protect us? Air Force Awards $80bn Contract For New Bombers 11:53, UK, Wednesday 28 October 2015 The Air Force has said it has chosen Northrop Grumman to build its highly classified $80bn next-generation bomber which could eventually be able to carry out missions without a pilot on board. The announcement is an important step in the Pentagon's plans to modernise the entire nuclear force - including missile submarines, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles and long-range bombers. At a Pentagon news conference, Defense Sec…