UK Policing News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-27108291 Good job The fuel was discovered by police and the end of the theft.

Here's one for GMP officers to start planning for. How do you think they are going to police this? http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/platt-fields-park-420-cannabis-7006057

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25675338 Makes me mad when you read nutters like this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27077853

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-27074310

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25448674 It seems almost impossible for a couple of companies to overcharge HMG 68.5 million pounds without fraud being involved. Yet these are the people who HMG let supply Staff to work for Police Forces. There is also another point, why were the Home Office, aka Ms May, Green and Co, not ensuring that regular checks were made to keep tags on the outgoing money. The Home Office must know how many convicts are Tagged, and could surely work out they had been over charged. Someone in HMG has been slacking in not keeping tags on outgoings. G4S don't seem to be much good at anything, cocked up the Olympics Security, cannot get pri…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27070339 Met Police car stolen in burglary at officer's Essex homeA thief may have got more than he bargained for when he stole an unmarked police car from an Essex address after burgling an officer's home. The grey Skoda Superb Elegance estate, with blue lights and a siren, was taken from Doddinghurst at 00:30 BST. The car, with DE12 in the number plate, belongs to the Metropolitan Police. Essex Police warned people "not to pull over if requested to do so by the driver, who is probably the individual who stole it". The vehicle was taken from outside the Met officer's home after his house was burgled and the car keys stolen while …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-27074310 Food for thought for the future of the service. Once the tipping point is passed of staff to officer ratio, then unison will be more powerful than the late Bob Crow and the RMT!

Refreshing to see a Judge with so much understanding. The pity is that he is retiring. The Northampton villians must be breathing a sigh of relief. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/471093/Judge-slams-politicians-and-police-for-UK-s-soft-justice

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2590703/Police-use-taser-guns-surged-28-times-EVERY-DAY-year-sparking-fears-mis-used.html Classic DM anti-police rubbish. The headline is interesting. And factual I guess - to a point - the Police 'use' TASER 28 times a day. If you read the article the figures are more interesting. And, thankfully, the 'best rated' comments are from people who have actually read the whole report not made their minds up with the headline alone. 51% of the use of TASER are drawing the thing and pointing it at a subject. The actual deployment (read firing) of the TASER has dropped between 2012 to 2013 from 21% to 17%. So, and I …

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2606128/Illegal-immigrant-murdered-British-teenager-deport-GAY-kept-quiet-packed-off.html I am, once again, astounded by the Court of Appeal. How can it be right that a convicted murderer cannot be returned to his country of citizenship simply o n the grounds that he is gay (something he only appears to have discovered after his first appeal against deportation failed). What cruel & degrading treatment can be awaiting him in Jamaica - I am at a loss to imagine?

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/27/police-failures-domestic-violence-damning-report The home secretary is to take personal charge of the way police respond to domestic abuse in England and Wales after a damning report exposed "alarming and unacceptable" weaknesses. Theresa May will lead a national oversight group to ensure chief constables act on the recommendations of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), which she described as "depressing reading". The inspectorate condemned the police service for treating domestic abuse as "a poor relation" to other police activity – and concluded that only eight out of 43 forces responded well to domestic …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-27066338 Two South Wales Police officers have been convicted of theft after being caught in an undercover sting by their own force. Det Sgt Stephen Phillips stole £250 cash and Det Con Jason Evans took two pens, Cardiff magistrates head. The pair were found out when colleagues staged a fake undercover operation at a house in Neath. Evans, 44, from Cilfrew, and Phillips, 45, from Skewen, will be sentenced later this month. They thought they were carrying out a raid in connection with a series of robberies in Manchester, unaware the house was rigged with police cameras. They then drove to a service station on the M5 to hand over th…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-26986027 RIP EDIT: Forum is changing M 8 to mate.

The BBC have got hold of this one. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-27036330#_=_