UK Policing News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-25959179

Sorry don't have a link. A19 ruled illegal....forces will have to pay compo. Now why don't the Fed think about challenges to all the other crap, startng with the poor buggers who didn't get their increments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26068206 I agree it is right It is only right that officers should be recompensed for the mileage they incur

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-26052357 Officer gets £430,000 in compensation and lost earnings. Good for him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25974360

Hope the link works http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2548013/999-dog-poo-Council-jobsworth-threatens-non-compliant-woman-arrest-dog-mess-pet.html A council worker called for police 'back-up' after he found a dog poo in a park. The Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officer accused Amber Langtry, 35, of not clearing up after her German Shepherd in Victoria Park, East London, as she was walking her friend. Miss Langtry denied the allegation, trying to explain that her dog had not been in the area where the attendant found the faeces, but still offered to pick it up to end the confrontation. Scroll down for video +8 Amber Langtry was shocked when this council work…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26066944 Nice one.

Wishing the officers and the other driver a speedy recovery from the accident. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-26006433

Property that's a real steal... Police station from 1930s with EIGHTEEN prison cells, an exercise yard and interrogation rooms expected to fetch £1.5million in sale in Dorset Three-storey building used to serve as main police station for Poole, Dorset, until 2009 when force moved to new HQ The 1930s building has lain mostly empty since then at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds a year to taxpayer The property, which features cells and interview rooms, has gone on market with parties invited to make sealed bids A derelict police station which used to house scores of police officers and dozens of prisoners is expected to fetch up to £1.5million after going up for s…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26054294 Five police forces could face paying out millions of pounds after officers who were forced to retire after 30 years won an age discrimination claim. Nottinghamshire, West Midlands, Devon and Cornwall, North Wales and South Wales officers were among hundreds made to retire under regulation A19. Nottinghamshire Police Federation secretary Mick Taylor said their case had been "vindicated". The forces have 42 days to appeal against the decision. The London Central Employment Tribunal made the ruling on behalf of 250 officers who were made to retire under A19, which said those below chief officer rank could be required to retire after…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2552186/Policeman-given-430-000-payout-humiliation-suffered-video-using-truncheon-smash-pensioners-window-went-viral-online.html Policeman who became worldwide laughing stock after his truncheon attack on pensioner's car went viral wins £430,000 payout because he couldn't stand daily ridicule from colleagues A police officer left his force after he became a 'laughing stock' among fellow officers over a popular online video showing him smashing a 74-year-old stroke victim's car window with his truncheon. Fomrer Pc Mike Baillon, 42, quit his job after becoming the butt of jokes from fellow officers in Gwent Poilce over a YouTu…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2552081/Boy-six-suspended-school-taking-packet-Mini-Cheddars-lunchbox-EXPELLED-parents-vented-outrage-press.html I know this story is in the Daily Mail but it seems from the school's quote at the end of the story that they have indeed expelled a pupil because his parents persistently (since 14 January when "balanced" lunch-boxes became the rule) gave him items for his lunch that the school did not approve of. It seems to me that the school's action is, at the very least, high-handed, and, at worst, totally unreasonable - particularly at a time when lots of folk are finding "making ends meet" a bit of a challenge. I note that…

A man attacked a car showroom with an axe after deciding a Porsche he bought there a decade ago was "no good". James Hyett, of Saffron Walden, escaped jail last year for leaving a severed deer's head at an Essex Tesco store. But while serving a suspended sentence, he went to Henlow Car Sales in Henlow, Bedfordshire, in November with the axe. A two-year community order was imposed by Luton Crown Court, which heard Hyett claimed the firm had not compensated him for the car. The court was told Hyett was armed with both a knife and an axe at the time. 'Come on then' He smashed the office window of the saleroom and the rear window of a BMW parked on the forecourt. Next …

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I was going to say that I was surprised no one else had posted this yet, but then it seems a lot of members have been busy waving their fingers and trying to score points in a ridiculously derailed thread about taking radios home so perhaps it got missed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26031810