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Norfolk’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Stephen Bett, has today, Thursday, June 19, stood down from his post after a fresh inquiry was ordered into his expenses claims. Mr Bett, who represented the North Coast division on Norfolk County Council before winning the PCC election in November 2012, said he had taken the decision with “huge reluctance”, but insisted it was temporary while the Independent Police Complaints Commission examines the issue. The IPCC has appointed the City of London police to investigate whether claims Mr Bett made between November 15, 2012 and October 31 last year were accurate. He said: ”This allegation is not new, has already been indepe…

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Apparently being overrun by fundamentalist militants even the Taliban deem to be too brutal. It's almost as if they were just waiting for our troops to be withdrawn and our armed forces decimated...

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2647041/The-blue-line-Police-spend-50-000-cardboard-cut-PCs-scare-away-shoplifters-forces-dont-know-work.html - is this Ms Mays idea of more officers on the beat. Might have guessed Gwent would be top of the list,

Nothing to do with British policing I know, but I've often wondered why the Americans seem unwilling to ever tighten their gun laws. I am not advocating banning private ownership of firearms, but I just don't get the prevailing American view that just making it a bit more difficult to obtain firearms and prohibiting military style assault weapons somehow infringes on their freedom. Any Americans or people with more of an insight on here?

Approval has been given for the Metropolitan Police to purchase three water cannon for London. Stephen Greenhalgh, deputy mayor for policing and crime, authorised the force buy the cannon from the German Federal Police. The mayor's office said: "By purchasing them now we are able to save over £2.3m compared to buying new devices". The water cannon will not be deployed until the home secretary authorises their use in England and Wales. In a statement the mayor's office said purchasing the cannon now for just over £218,000, before Theresa May approves them, meant they could be bought at a "considerably reduced rate". A Home Office spokesman said: "We are keen to ensure…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-27762494 firearms officers did not carry machine guns good job they don't .

George Galloway’s former secretary has appeared in court accused of encouraging her husband, a senior counter terrorism detective, to leak details about the arrest of radical Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary. Aisha Ali-Khan, 33, allegedly asked her husband, Detective Inspector Mohammed Afiz Khan, 46, to access and pass her restricted information while he worked for the Met’s specialist counter-terrorism unit SO15 The officer, who was based at Scotland Yard, has been charged with two counts of misconduct in public office and four counts of data protection offences between May 2012 and September 2012. It is alleged he abused his position to obtain restricted information rel…

My first thought about this is to wonder if the IPCC took into account the possibility that many complaints are false and are made to muddy the waters or to disrupt investigations. I've lost count of the number of times that I've been told that I've only arrested someone because of their colour or background, although none of these has turned into official complaints but the possibility is there each and every time it happens. As for lack of diversity training every part of the recruitment process takes it into account from the paper sift to assessment centre then training where the 6 strands of diversity get rammed down everyone's throats. I can't see what else …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23080880 Got a feeling people wont let this lie until the dog is put down. Seems harsh though seeing as it was doing its job. Not sure if there has been any previous incidents like this?

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/m6-crash-police-watchdog-probe-7271368 20 mins is a long time for a vehicle to be sat in the middle lane of a motorway, but dare I say it, what do you expect when you have a handful of officers covering the entire North West of England? The people commenting on the MEN's Facebook post stun me, saying the driver of the Mercedes should have pushed it out of the carriageway? I'd like to put some of them in the same situation and see how quick they are to stand in the middle lane of a motorway at night..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2658105/Blair-Dont-blame-meltdown-Iraq-Astonishing-essay-ex-PM-says-Obama-quit-soon-UK-launch-attacks.html Blair will never admit anything is his fault, he just thinks he is 'Mr Perfect'.

$8.5 million found in a wooden box at a flat in Newham $8.5 million has been found in a box at a flat in east London. The huge stash of cash was found by bailiffs in Newham. Police are checking if the dollar bills are genuine. A 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of money laundering. http://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2014-06-12/8-5-million-found-in-a-wooden-box-in-a-flat-in-newham/