UK Policing News

This Officer was close to being taken out, IMO he was far to nice towards Trucker! http://www.metacafe.com/watch/9967010/too_soft/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21558486 Not good news people want to be reading if they lose the urgent 999 system where they live.

Speculation over absence mounts as Tom Winsor turns down committee invitations.A question mark is hanging over whether Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary Tom Winsor will appear in front of thousands of officers at the Police Federation of England and Wales annual conference this year. PoliceOracle.com can reveal Mr Winsor, the first non-officer to take on the £200,000 a year role, has declined invitations to appear on stage at the Fed’s Inspectors and Constables Central Committee conferences due to a prior engagement. Both sessions will take place in Bournemouth on the morning of Tuesday May 14. It remains unclear whether he will attend the rest of the "full"…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21543955

eroic officers back on the beat: Two police constables from Barnet who saved the life of a driver after her car plunged into a freezing cold lake are back on the beat following the dramatic rescue yesterday (Thursday 21 February). Police were called at 08:05 to reports of a car being driven into the lake with the female driver apparently unconscious at the wheel. Shortly afterwards PC Ryan Perry, 38 with 11 years service and PC Marc Cash, 26 with five years service, arrived at the scene to find anxious members of the public around the edge of the lake looking at a car. Within seconds of their arrival the car began to sink. With half the car submerged under murk…

http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Uniformed+Operations/2013/Feb/21/Specials-Head-Single-Hierarchy-Needed_61421.html Well if CC's don't listen to ACPO are they going to be swayed by officers in the dizzy heights of ASCCO??

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/london-police-accussed-mocking-sick-trans-brutal-arrest210213 Now, I know context is everything and all, and we should wait to hear exactly what happened...but damn. This looks terrible. Hoping there is an innocent explanation.

BBC news report: A tribunal has heard police officers from Devon and Cornwall were forced out of their jobs after 30 years of service by a "financial tsunami" triggered by a Government review.

N-Dubz rapper Dappy has been given a six-month suspended sentence for a brawl he sparked at a petrol station. The singer broke down in tears and shouted "yes" at Guildford Crown Court as the sentence was delivered, after he was found guilty of assault and affray at an earlier hearing. He was also ordered to pay £4,500 in compensation and £2,000 in costs. The 25-year-old had faced a maximum sentence of three years in prison. The trial was told that Dappy, charged under his real name of Costadinos Contostavlos, was out celebrating the release of his new single on February 27 last year. After spending the night in the VIP area of the Casino nightclub in Guildford drinki…

I hope your average member of the public realise and appreciate what good work is put in to bring the likes of the three guys to justice as announced today from Woolwich C.C. Thank god for good intel. those guys were hoping for a greater repeat of the London July bombings. As i'm sure we have all had said to us on many occasion...they only have to get lucky once, we have to be lucky all the time. Keep it up chaps, for all our sakes.

Can't find the original news story on here.. Wow, didn't even drop a chip! What a guy! Or maybe not :new_doh2:

Two police officers swam to the rescue of a woman whose car plunged into a fishing lake in north London. A member of the public reported seeing a car with an unconscious woman inside leave the road at Totteridge Lane in Barnet at about 08:05 GMT. Two male officers jumped into the water and smashed a car window to rescue the woman as the vehicle sank. The woman, in her 30s, was taken to hospital where her condition is described as "non-life threatening". Ch Supt Adrian Usher said: "I am incredibly proud of these officers and would like to pay tribute to the speed and courage with which they acted to protect the life of this driver. "In the bitterly cold conditions we …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21516243 Very funny news indeed. Not for the economy though........... Talk about cooking the books. The Chancellor included the results of the 4G auction in his Autumn Statement in December - to the tune of £3.5 billion. It helped make his figures balance. Which would have been well and good but the auction has only just happened - and raked in £2.34 billion. So our Chancellor is now 'missing' £1.16 billion........calculator not required.... For a bloke who should be good with numbers and accounting, I'm not sure he's very good at it. Surely you don't base your finances on the sale of something that hasn't yet happened? Seems …