UK Policing News

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Nurses on police patrols to deal with mental health cases 27 June 2013 Last updated at 03:37 The home secretary said police spent a lot of time dealing with those with mental health problems Nurses are to go on patrol with four police forces across England to improve responses to mental health emergencies. The pilot scheme aims to ensure fewer people with mental health problems are detained in the wrong environment, the government says. Street triage teams are to be tested in the Derbyshire, Devon & Cornwall, North Yorkshire and Sussex force areas. The patrols are part of an initiative funded by the Department of Health and backed by the Home Office. Home Secre…

A teenage boy was arrested after police found an armoury of weapons at his home. The 16-year-old boy was quizzed after his home was raided by officers. They seized a rifle, an air gun, a stun gun, a lock knife, a 12ins First World War shell, cartridges, pepper spray and body armour. Bomb squad officers carried out a controlled explosion on the shell device at nearby playing fields on Tuesday. The youngster had been stopped the previous day over an invalid bus pass, with an officer confiscating a can of ‘self-defence’ pepper spray. But the boy’s dad has claimed the guns were all being kept legally at their home in Rye Bank Road, Chorlton , and said he was ‘surprised’ …

It has been announced that the Home Office has agreed budget cuts of a further 8-10%. This can only mean more cuts to policing as the only area announced that will not be subject to them is the CT budget

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2347028/How-police-spies-tried-smear-Lawrences-family-Undercover-officer-reveals-superiors-wanted-dirt-family.html - I know this is from the Daily Maul so perhaps 50% should be taken with a 'pinch of salt', but Francis was on the BBC News yesterday spouting his rhetoric. I some times think people should let 'sleeping dogs lie', and not sir up unnecessary trouble. The Lawrence family have been through enough without more grief being piled on them.

More than 900 serving police officers and community support officers have a criminal record, official figures show. Forces across England and Wales employ officers with convictions for offences including burglary, causing death by careless driving, robbery, supplying drugs, domestic violence, forgery and perverting the course of justice. Those with criminal records include senior officers, among them two detective chief inspectors and one chief inspector working for the Metropolitan police. At least 944 serving officers and police community support officers (PCSOs) have a conviction, according to the figures released by 33 of the 43 forces in England and Wales in respo…

A PCSO is suing a police force for discrimination after she failed to notify them of a conviction for theft when she applied to become a police constable. Rachida Sobhi has launched legal action against the Metropolitan Police - reportedly claiming she did not reveal her criminal record due to amnesia. Ms Sobhi had her case dismissed by an employment tribunal but has won the right to a new hearing after a senior judge ruled she was disabled when she filled in the application form, it was reported. It is understood she was convicted of an offence of theft from a previous employer in 1991, for which she received a conditional discharge. But she is said to have claimed t…

Well, as expected mainland cops to do mutual aid re G8 in NI. Problem is, the comments on POLICE ORACLE NEWS are almost entirely.....NO re all the recent pay & pension reductions & also staffing cuts. This could be a bit of an upset for Cameron.

I can imagine the CPS throwing this out if it happened in the UK as there was not way of quoting the actual speed he was doing (but part of me still wants to go *high five* "Good Effort"!!)

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/4978374/15-attacks-on-cops-each-day-Shock-levels-of-violence-against-Scots-police.html Another good arguement for tasers...

A more than professional approach from PC Barman, speedy recovery to your sir. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-22986178

Will be interesting to see what sort of sentence he gets if he is found guilty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22967853 So. You join the Army. You go abroad and are told to fight, and if you get killed, then your family can sue the MOD for failing to keep you alive. Really? Erm. Is this the end of us fighting wars with men on the ground?