UK Policing News

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9569359/Expect-to-be-shot-if-you-burgle-gun-owners-judge-warns-criminals.html - Sounds as if there is at least one sensible judge in the Justice System. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9708511/Judge-attacks-genius-prosecutors-after-householder-confronts-yobs-with-knife.html - Sometimes I wonder which side the police are on, why were none of the yobs arrested?

Love the idea, not sure about Russell Brand thou :) http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/23/russell-brand-wants-us-to-lovethepolice-twitter-disagrees-5259359/ https://twitter.com/search?q=%23lovethepolice&src=tyah&vertical=default&f=tweets

A POLICE force has splashed out millions of pounds on 4G smartphones for bobbies on the beat which WON'T WORK in almost 90% of their rural patch Cumbria constabulary has spent £1.8m on state-of-the-art handsets for its 1,130 frontline officers, to replace the traditional policeman's notebook. But top brass have been left red-faced after it emerged that just 11 per cent of the rural county has high-speed mobile internet coverage. That means officers on foot patrol in country communities will have to rely on slower 3G speeds to record crimes - if they can get online at all. Critics reacted in disbelief at the news, which has been branded "mad" at a time of swingei…

A key adviser to the inquiry into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence has admitted it was ‘a mistake’ to brand the Metropolitan police ‘institutionally racist’. The comments by Dr Richard Stone, 16 years after the landmark Macpherson report was published, are likely to reignite the debate about racism within the police. Its headline phrase reshaped policing and race relations in Britain but also led to a backlash from police associations which objected to the label. According to Stone, it hindered the implementation of the report's main recommendations. In an interview with Michael Gillard of The Sunday Times, Stone, 78, said: 'I am quite happy to admit…

http://www.bedfordshire.police.uk/about_us/news/news_2015/john_%E2%80%98powers%E2%80%99_though_life-thre.aspx Looks like Beds has the first SC Dog Handler and is joining a growing list of forces that have SCs in specialist departments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-33197522 Good raids by police

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33163530

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/drugs-hidden-in-fake-ambulance/ar-AAbMXrG