UK Policing News

http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/26/police-officers-quizzed-after-parking-in-disabled-bay-at-mcdonalds-3560217/ Police officers quizzed after parking in disabled bay at McDonald’s Two police officers are being questioned after their patrol car was photographed parked across disabled spaces outside a McDonald’s. The customer who took the picture claimed the officers dumped their car before heading in to pick up a takeaway. Chris Burrows, from Lee-on-the-Solent, who took the picture outside a local McDonald’s, asked Hampshire police chiefs: ‘I fully expect a public apology as to why our tax money is being spent employing officers who do what they want because they drive a blu…

After hiving off Border Force last year and taking it back into the Home Office, Theresa May has applied the same solution to the latest border catastrophe and split UKBA again. This time she's killed the agency for good. So now we will have three sections of the Home Office trying to draw up demarcation lines to enforce one set of immigration laws.Strangely it hasn't worked so far with only two. I guess we'll now have three unit using the warrant card of a non-existent law enforcement agency. No money for a new one.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/26/police-constantly-under-attack-government The police are constantly under attack from the government Pay is being slashed, workloads increased, resources withdrawn and thousands are losing their jobs. No wonder morale is at rock bottom. John Harris joins officers on the streets of Bristol. It's early Saturday evening in Bristol. In one of those vehicles that looks like a reinforced minibus, a two-person police response team is doing the rounds of the suburbs to the city's north-east. PC Beth Hawke and PC Dan Heyward see themselves as police "activists". By which they mean, as Hawke puts it: "We like to go out, and we like to n…

http://www.bbc.co.uk...32148 http://www.bbc.co.uk...london-21832148 Some people never learn. A career and pension up the spout.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/general-news/you-must-look-the-part-police-told-in-drive-to-boost-visibility-1-5525852 You must look the part, Police told in drive to boost visibilty POLICE in a Yorkshire force will be told to dress more smartly so they “look the part” while on duty as part of a major new scheme to increase their visibility and public confidence. South Yorkshire Police will ask its investigators to be “properly suited up” at work, while dozens of plain clothes officers will be returned to uniform so they can be more easily recognised as police. The reforms come after Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright made “increasing vi…

Marijuana-scented scratch cards are to be posted to Nottinghamshire households in a bid to detect illegal cannabis farms. Crimestoppers said the cards were being posted to 13 areas in England, and would help people to recognise the smell of cannabis in order to report it. Nottinghamshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Paddy Tipping said cannabis farms were increasing in the county and he needed the public's help, as East Midlands Today's Paul Bradshaw reports. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-21858700 Video in link.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-21931774 Cleveland Police deputy chief constable Derek Bonnard sacked The deputy chief constable of Cleveland Police, Derek Bonnard, has been sacked from the force for gross misconduct. Mr Bonnard was suspended when he was arrested in 2011 as part of corruption inquiry Operation Sacristy and denied any wrongdoing. The force said he was sacked for six counts of gross misconduct, including obstructing the corruption probe and misusing a corporate credit card. The force's former chief constable was also arrested and was sacked last year. Mr Bonnard's dismissal followed a disciplinary hearing which began earlier this mo…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298771/Policeman-Doug-Crossan-reports-13-year-old-son-Cameron-FRAUD-running-3-700-iPad.html Policeman reports his 13-year-old son for FRAUD after Apple refuse to refund £3,700 bill he ran up on his iPad A policeman has shopped his 13-year-old son for fraud after he ran up a £3,700 bill playing iPad games. PC Doug Crossan, 48, was horrified when his credit card company informed him that son Cameron had blown a small fortune in the App Store. He claims the teenager was unaware he was being charged for the in-game purchases and wants Apple to scrap the charge. But the technology company has refused and his only way of recou…

http://www.policeoracle.com/news/HR%2C+Personnel+and+Staff+Development/2013/Mar/25/Fed-Divided-As-Funding-Suspended_62593.html Fed Divided As Funding Suspended Battle lines are drawn as Constables Central Committee says it is not happy with the way an independent review of the staff association is being progressed. The representative body for police constables within the Police Federation has suspended its payments to the central fund – saying its concerns regarding an independent review of the staff association must be addressed. The Constables Central Committee (CCC) made the decision on Friday (March 22) after it convened an “emergency meeting”. It claims its c…

The headline's a bit misleading, but a nice article none the less. Source. I don't know what's more impressive - the successful traffic stop, the name of the Supt, or the talking dogs that SYP's dog unit have.

The Mayor arrived at the launch on a bicycle despite the arctic conditions The Mayor of London has released his Police and Crime Plan, confirming which front counters are to close. Boris Johnson claims the plan will put more officers on the streets, drive down crime and make policing more efficient. The Mayor's office says "The plan heralds long-overdue changes to the Met estate – with almost 500 buildings, costing £203 million a year to run, it is vast and expensive. "The Mayor’s estate plans are projected to save £60m in running costs that can help balance the Met budget and protect frontline policing. Previous figures show less than 50 crimes a night are now repor…

Look at the angle of that, he must have been going some speed to wedge his car there. lucky the house didn't start breaking up.

Cannabis scratch and sniff cards to track down farmsMarijuana-scented scratch cards are to be posted to Nottinghamshire households in a bid to detect illegal cannabis farms. Crimestoppers said the cards were being posted to 13 areas in England, and would help people to recognise the smell of cannabis in order to report it. Nottinghamshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Paddy Tipping said cannabis farms were increasing in the county and he needed the public's help, as East Midlands Today's Paul Bradshaw reports. I not sniffed one yet, anyone out there who has? Click here to view the article