UK Policing News

http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/LocalPages/NewsDetails.aspx?nsid=27580&t=4 SC Simon Bale Williton and Minehead (West Somerset) MBE. Simon Bale, aged 41, who works as a supervisor in the force's control room but spends his free-time pounding the beat on a voluntary basis and is a member of the HM Coastguard rescue team at Watchet, said on hearing the news: "It is with pride and a sense of achievement that I receive this honour but it also reflects the professionalism and commitment of many people both past and present who have supported me within the police control room and out on the street patrolling in the Williton and Minehead area over the past 22 year…

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Police-officer-dead/story-19327939-detail/story.html#axzz2WeLjhzN0 Heartbreaking news, my thoughts go out to her family, friends and colleagues.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22919576

This is the one from the episode in the first series of Coppers if anyone remembers.. Sounds like the new evidence supports the officers statements to me...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22918857 Given a further 8-10% cut in the Home Office budget, which will doubtless mean civilian or police officers losing their incomes, is this really money well spent?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-22853282 And everyone's fears about the PCC post are coming true...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-22795154 These two vile specimens each got 15 years in prison, the sad part is that this will be reduced to about 5 years in reality. Life may have been a better sentence. One was a Law firm worker and one an ex Intelligence officer in the Iraqi army.

CPS receives file after visually impaired man was shot with stun gun when his white stick was mistaken for Samurai sword A police officer demonstrating a Taser gun. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Police officers could face criminal charges after a blind man was shot with a 50,000-volt Taser when his white stick was mistaken for a Samurai sword. Colin Farmer, 63, who is visually impaired, was hit with the stun gun in Chorley, Lancashire, in October last year. Prosecutors confirmed that police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has passed them a file for consideration. A Crown Prosecution Service spokeswoman said: "The CPS has been passed a file …

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336320/Top-cops-Policeman-joins-buskers-shoppers-rendition-Wonderwall.html Brilliant, good old community interaction.

I have never yet seen a brief stand up in court an refer to a tablet computer, so that was obviously money well spent :new_doh2:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22806248 I have a open mind on this one?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22882757

I was watching a criminologist (I think he was) on the news this morning, and it was being said that cregan (small c deliberate) is likely to be given a very very rough time indeed in prison. Let's hope that that is the case. Apparently, the criminologist was saying that there are three cases at present that are being appealed against in the European Courts because the three prisoners were given a whole life sentence and if the appeal is upheld the sentence would be illegal. If that happens then cregans case could also go the same way. F.F.S. declaring his sentence illegal too for gods sake. If the sentence has been handed down by a judge in this country, what the hell ar…