UK Policing News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30886280 How does this fit with HMG's pledge to keep public sector pay rises to 1% for the next couple of years and will they turn round and veto it? Secondly this is quite a contrast to the Fed whose submission to the new police pay board was to justify a 1% rise as opposed to making the case for a higher rise. If UNISON can do it in the face of HMG policy why can't the Fed?

Janet Williams said she was still awaiting an explanation of how her son died The mother of a man who died after being struck by a police car at the scene of a reported burglary has accused the Thames Valley force of acting like "judge and jury". Father-of-two Aston McLean Williams, 28, died after being struck by a marked vehicle in Reading on August 6. Janet Williams said she still had not been given a full explanation. The force declined to comment while the Independent Police Complaints Commission was investigating. The IPCC is investigating the circumstances surrounding Aston McLean Williams' death On the night Mr McLean Williams was killed, Thames Valley Pol…

Police in Coventry are looking for a pair of shoplifters "straight out of Little Britain" after CCTV showed a woman seemingly getting out of her wheelchair to steal goods from a shop. West Midlands Police described the situation as looking like the Andy Pipkin sketch from the hit comedy show by David Walliams and Matt Lucas, involving a character who feigns disability. The CCTV, which was taken at a Marks and Spencer store at a service station on the A45 in Finham, shows a man pushing a woman around in a wheelchair. She is not alone as the man helping to push her around the store is captured loading the woman's bag with food. Police said the pair took £60 worth of pac…

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Click Interesting. Alaska is sort of an outlier because it has a slightly larger population than DC which was probably not included since we don't have statehood( ). But I expected Germany to be higher on the list.