UK Policing News

Seventeen-year-olds are considered to be adults when they are taken into police custody A High Court challenge could change the way 17-year-olds in England and Wales are treated after being arrested and taken into police custody. They are currently classed as adults which means they do not automatically receive the guidance of an adult to help them through the legal process. Many lawyers regard this as a legal anomaly that needs to change. The challenge involves a 17-year-old who was held at a London police station overnight on suspicion of robbery. AnalysisClive Coleman BBC News legal correspondent Seventeen-year-olds who are arrested, detained and interviewed in po…

Kevin HUTCHINSON - FOSTER has been found guilty of supplying the gun to Mark DUGGAN. Good, that's one in the eye for the riot apologists who try to excuse the inexcusable by blaming the police.

A Shropshire MP has said he fears plans to shut some West Mercia Police stations could leave his constituency with no 999 response teams. Shropshire MP has said he fears plans to shut some West Mercia Police stations could leave his constituency with no 999 response teams. Earlier this week the force said it was closing more than 30 stations and control rooms to help save it £1.5m. Ludlow MP Philip Dunne said the plans could mean emergency response teams going from the town and Bridgnorth. Chief Constable David Shaw said he response times would "remain at the excellent level they currently are". Mr Dunne said he was not against the plans "in principle" to close eight …

Over the past 15 years or so policing and indeed other parts of the public sector have been dominated by a regime of statistical performance measures, targets and league tables. There is no question that these have had benefits in terms of greater accountability to the public and a stronger focus on continuous improvement and the highlighting of under achievement. As time has gone on however, targets have in some cases become an end in themselves rather than the means to a better service for the public. The Police Service has got very good at achieving targets and knowing what counts towards the target and what does not. In this process the needs of local people have some…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9885584/One-in-three-serious-offenders-has-15-or-more-convictions-of-cautions.html A hardcore of more than 100,000 serious, repeat offenders turn to crime time and again, the Ministry of Justice figures showed. Two in five burglars and three in 10 violent offenders dealt with by the courts in the 12 months to September had previously been handed at least 15 convictions or cautions. A further 43,500 criminals dealt with by magistrates were also prolific repeat offenders, around one in five, up from one in 10, or about 29,000, a decade ago. Javed Khan, chief executive of Victim Support, said: “These figures reflect an…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/25/bill-bratton-british-police-fewer-arrests US 'supercop' Bill Bratton: British police should make fewer arrests The American "supercop" who could be Britain's first foreign police chief has said officers should make fewer arrests and send fewer people to prison to achieve big falls in crime. In an interview with the Guardian, Bill Bratton said alternatives to imprisonment had helped deliver large falls in crime and in prison populations in the US, where he led the New York and Los Angeles police departments. This had been achieved despite budget cuts, which UK police chiefs have warned will lead to rising crime. Bratton w…

SCUM of the earth. :new_sneaky2:

Two police officers left with broken bones and a fractured skull after late night hit-and-run Pair hurt in Rochdale Road, Harpurhey, Manchester at 10.45pm last night They had stopped a vehicle who then drove into them and sped off Two police officers have been knocked down and badly injured in a hit-and-run. The officers were struck by a car in Harpurhey, north Manchester last night, leaving one with broken bones and the other with a fractured skull. They had left their vehicle in Rochdale Road to speak to a driver and passenger late last night who then smashed into them before driving off. A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said: 'At approximat…

South Yorkshire's chief constable has brought up the elephant in the room ... saying of the victims families that their "version of certain events has become 'the truth' even though it isn't". Oh dear, that's not going to go down well. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-21553946 Something that concerns me is that the private email was released by the county's police and crime commissioner following a Freedom of Information request. mmm Cpt D

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Do we need IQ TESTS for juries? Vicky Pryce trial has exposed a breathtaking level of ignorance and stupidity By Melanie Phillips PUBLISHED: 23:53, 20 February 2013 | UPDATED: 08:21, 21 February 2013 Mr Justice Sweeney did not hide his astonishment and dismay at the way the jury had behaved By discharging the jury which had failed to reach even a majority verdict, the judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, did not hide his astonishment and dismay at the way it had behaved. On Tuesday, the jurors had presented him with a list of ten questions which revealed that they simply did not have a clue about what they had heard as evidence, what they had been told by himself or indeed w…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9800692/Only-half-of-officers-would-report-colleague-who-punched-suspect.html

Baffling police jargon in running for Golden Bull award WARWICKSHIRE Police could win an “award” – for its use of baffling corporate jargon. It has been shortlisted by the Plain English Campaign for a Golden Bull, which aims to name and shame the worst offenders. The nomination follows the publication by Warwickshire Police’s self-styled Enabling Services Directorate – responsible for things like HR, IT and communications – of four pages of management mission statements. The document says the department aims to “protect people from harm” with a range of “outcome focused” functions that “are professionally competent and understand the operational policing context of t…

Well, it's now finally happened. The AAA credit rating for the uk has been lost. You would think that that would jolt Osbourne's attidude/approach to the situation wouldn't you, but no, on the contrary, he is on record as saying that it will double HMG's resolve and stick to his policies. FFS stop giving the uk's money to overseas aid, big spongers and many immigrants in the form of grants, to name but a few. This situation has got to stop PDQ now. I for one, and many others are p****d off with it.