UK Policing News

Just goes to show we are not really "all in it together" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24042446 Thankfully I am not requiring the use of the foodbanks. The way things are going we are indeed lucky.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-2406684 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22000760

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301650/Call-police--sue-WPC-demands-50-000-petrol-station-owner-tripping-kerb-investigating-break-in.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 So im just wondering if you were this officer would you sue ? especially considering you were on duty looks bad to the public I think.

The new Fireartms Traning facility which is costing A & S 16 million pounds, HAS BURNT DOWN. It was due to open in January as a tripartite training facility for A & S, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. The reason for the blaze has not been given, but it would be interesting to know what security there was in the old Black Rock Quarry where it was being built. Four Tenders and a turntable ladder attended but couldn't save the building.

PC Keith Blakelock: man charged with murder at Broadwater Farm riots Nicholas Jacobs will stand trial for murder of police officer hacked to death during unrest in north London in 1985A man has been charged with the murder of Keith Blakelock, the policeofficer who was stabbed and hacked to death after being surrounded by a mob during the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots. The Crown Prosecution Service said that Nicholas Jacobs, 44, would stand trial for the murder, which took place during some of the most ferocious rioting seen in Britain. PC Blakelock, 40, a father of three, was killed during the disorder which erupted in Tottenham, north London, following the death of Cynth…

This don't help the police on bad drivers when you got a bent clerk falsify their driving records http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-24080915

A £1000 handbag damaged and only a £100 surcharge .

A Met Police Officer, Pc Shazahan Wadud. was killed on the 8th September while riding his motor cycle to work. He was in collision with a car at Sprats Hill, on his way to Tower Hamlets where he was a response driver. He had six years service as a police officer, and leaves a wife and two young children. A man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of death by dangerous driving. R,I.P Shazahan, and condolences to family, friends and colleagues.

I've just read that the guy has been found not guilty on all the rape charges he has been tried for. I don't agree with his I/D being put into the public domain until the verdict had been reached. Had he have been found guilty, I would have had no problem with the world and his wife knowing about such abhorrent charges/actions, but that was not the case. Sadly, mud sticks and these allegations will stay with him for a very very long time. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418832/Thug-killed-duty-police-officer-single-punch-played-X-Box-jailed-just-half-years.html - what an absolute disgrace, the Scumbag should have got 15 years at least. It appears the death of a Police Officer by some thug deserves only 4.5 years, so he will be out in just over 2 years. Lets hope the CPS appeals the sentence.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/no-future-for-bobbies-on-the-beat-claims-senior-police-officer-8812956.html It was bound to happen eventually with such swingeing cuts.

Original article link: http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Turnover-of-specials-'should-be-halved'_70473.html Some Forces seems to suffers from this more than others.

I saw this reported on the BBC website earlier but oddly it seems to have disappeared. :new_hmmm:

source So why should they be apologizing for challenging someone for ID in and around the palace, doing their jobs in other words? Nice to see the comments section is broadly thinking the same thing.