UK Policing News

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10318079/And-still-Andrew-Mitchell-waits-for-justice.html - So Dan Hodges knows everything about this case, he knows Mitchell is totally innocent, except that he is a pompous, arrogant man, who swore at Police, lied to start with, then admitted it. I don't believe for one minute that Mitchell lost much sleep over the incident, he is too pompous to worry about it. I just hope that the whole incident doesn't leave the Met with 'egg on their face'. Bernard Hogan-Howe did eventually, after some considerable time come out in support of his men, but it took him long enough. If the Mets had rushed this enquiry there w…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-31692480 Sad when you get illegal immigrants trying to get into the UK.

Nick Lidstone, a Cambridgeshire police officer, admitted 13 offences A paedophile police officer jailed for a "horrendous" series of rapes and child sex attacks on a victim has had his sentence increased to 20 years. Cambridgeshire Police sergeant Nick Lidstone, from Barrington, was jailed for 14-and-a-half years in December after admitting 13 offences. The Solicitor General had argued the jail term was "not tough enough". His sentence was increased to 20 years after Court of Appeal judges agreed it had been "unduly lenient". When Lidstone was initially sentenced last year, Norwich Crown Court heard his victim had suffered years of abuse, culminating in being raped…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27176975 Now I do wonder how this is going to turn out and who will win the day. :new_shhh:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31683571

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2974402/Crackdown-drivers-using-phones-wheel-blocked-ministers-fear-election-backlash-police-chief-claims.html

Claire Tiltman: Friends remember murdered schoolgirl The Crimewatch reconstruction portrays Colin Ash-Smith watching Claire using a zebra crossing Friends of a murdered schoolgirl whose killer was not convicted until 21 years after she died have talked of how the crime changed their lives. Claire Tiltman, 16, was stabbed to death in an alleyway near her home in Greenhithe, Kent by Colin Ash-Smith in 1993. He was jailed for life last year. "We miss those days at school, but what happened changed everything," friend Joanne Roberts told BBC Crimewatch. Monday's programme will feature a new reconstruction of the murder. 'No forensic evidence' Ex-milkman Ash-Smith, 4…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-31673560 - Hogg could have an office at the police HQ which would cost nothing, he could also stay at accommodation in police HQ for nothing, but he just loves spending money. He stays at the Marines Camp just outside Exeter, costing £650 a month. He spent over £206,000 on consultants last year. Just another in the long line of PCC's who think they are Gods Gift.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-31698004