UK Policing News

I hope the officers are uninjured; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-22034099 Cpt D

Police officers injured after car rammed in Newry Two police officers have been injured after their patrol vehicle was rammed by a car in Newry, County Down. The police were responding to a report of anti-social behaviour when the incident happened at Ardmaine Gardens on Thursday. A 16-year-old was arrested at the scene and later released on police bail. A 23-year-old man has been charged with driving while disqualified, dangerous driving, no insurance and having an offensive weapon. He is also charged with having a class B drug with intent to supply and is due to appear at Newry Magistrate's Court on Friday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22037032

Despite their constant sabre rattling over the years, this appears to be taking on a new dimension.The media coverage appears to be a little apathetic, I wonder whether we are suffering from the cry wolf syndrome. I have always had a deep interest in, and strong desire to visit the DPRK. I may, however, put that trip on ice for a while.... http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-21974381

A couple convicted of killing six of their children in a house fire in Derby are due to be sentenced later.Mick and Mairead Philpott will reappear at Nottingham Crown Court where they were found guilty of six counts of manslaughter, along with their friend Paul Mosley, on Tuesday. The maximum sentence for the crime is life imprisonment. Mrs Justice Thirlwall was due to pass sentence on Wednesday but needed more time to consider mitigation. The court was told that Philpott, 56, was jailed for seven years in 1978 for attempting to murder a previous girlfriend and given a concurrent five-year sentence for stabbing the woman's mother. In 1991 he received a conditional dis…

When our union, PCS, announced a half day Civil Service strike on 5th April, the Home Office responded by telling Border Force and most of UKBA that they would be deducting a whole day's pay for a half day strike. All other Govt Departments rightly agreed to a half day deduction. As a consequence, Home Office staff have been forced to extend the strike to a full day on 8th April. Not even Jim Hacker's government tried to make a strike longer than called for...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-22000606 Just a link, no quote, checkout the video

That guy, Kim Jung un has got to be as mad as a box of frogs (so to speak). Coming out with all that rhetoric to the USA, China and Russia. If it all goes t**s up, there will be an awful lot of destruction, and potentially world wide too. It's for that reason that I am pleased that we still have the Trident system. On the Jeremy Vine BBC station at lunchtime, the Trident was being discussed. A couple of people e-mailed in to say that it was not a deterrent. On the contrary, I think that it's mere existence has been in itself that deterrent, no buttons have been pushed (yet) since it's coming into being.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22044198#TWEET709979 The only reason I posted this is because I am curios as to why he got the ticket at 56mph which is under the ACPO guidelines?

Police records attacks on goths and emosA police force has begun recording attacks on members of subcultures, such as goths and emos, as hate crimes. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the first force in the UK to treat the offences in such a way. Previously hate crimes were only registered for offences against race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity. GMP has worked with a charity set up following the murder of 20-year-old goth Sophie Lancaster in 2007. Ms Lancaster was attacked in a park in Bacup, Lancashire, on 24 August 2007, along with her boyfriend Robert Maltby, because of the way they were dressed. She was kicked and stamped on as she…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-22034099 Man shot dead during police raid in Bradford A 49-year-old man has been shot dead during a drugs raid in Bradford. Officers with a warrant went to a property on Buckingham Crescent in the Clayton area at about 13:00 BST. A struggle took place between the officers, who were unarmed, and one of the occupants, which resulted in a firearm being discharged. West Yorkshire Police said the Independents Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) had been informed and was attending the scene. Headline doesn't quite match the circumstances....

Much Wenlock police open fire Police in Shropshire have opened fire after a man threatened them with what appeared to be a handgun. One shot was fired by officers from West Mercia Police in Much Wenlock during the incident at 16:25 BST on Sunday, a spokesman said. He said a uniformed patrol was threatened by a man who the police say appeared to be carrying a firearm. The man, in his 50s and from Telford, was arrested and has been detained under the Mental Health Act. Dog units and armed response officers were called in as the man tried to enter a house in Stretton Road. 'Tackled by dog' The spokesman said: "Again, he appeared to threaten officers with a handgun and…

Eileen Arthurs had been working as a neighbourhood officer A police officer has been jailed for two and a half years for misconduct in a public office. Eileen Arthurs denied five counts of the offence, but was found guilty by a jury at Maidstone Crown Court. Kent Police said she carried out unauthorised checks using the force's computers. Arthurs, 52, of Wansunt Road in Bexley, south-east London, had been working as a neighbourhood officer in the north of Kent when the offences happened. The force said Arthurs had accessed the records of her friend, who was known to police, on several occasions with no professional reason to do so. Assistant Chief Constable Gary Beau…

Taxpayer funds a £5 million up to £36.1 million. Although I am not against the monarchy surely they should also lead by example and be in it all together with the plebs/serfs. Of course HMG and their cohorts will be getting more too as they will pay less tax. I wonder how many of them are VAT registered to claim all the VAT back - keeping more in their pockets. Tax exemptions etc http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-1616016/Easy-ways-pay-income-tax.html http://money.uk.msn.com/save-money/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=160743441 http://www.sjdaccountancy.com/about/pay_less_tax_contractors.html http://www.standardlife.co.uk/1/site/uk/financial-education/tax-ef…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-21841631 The new Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police is to consider giving Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) the power of arrest. Nick Gargan said he would also review the equipment provided to them. Most members of the area's police and crime panel said they would. Although the story starts saying power of arrest, it goes on to suggest its the power to detain for 30 minutes that other forces PCSO'S have. Ours dont have them so i dont really know all that much about how it would work, what the legislation and training requirement would be. However, in my personal experience those who are told they have to…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-22017567 Claims Conservative Central HQ sent him a link to a BBC interview on IDS re his £53 budget bet, but managed to post a link to a site featured as ‘the ultimate adult site guide’. Still it could have been worse.