UK Policing News

Ive just been watching BBC news and there is an article on Action fraud. A new way of reporting fraud. Police don't take reports of fraud from March. You ring action fraud and they decide if it gets investigated. In my opinion this is legalised figure fiddling. My concerns are 1) Who actually investigates the crime 2) Who decides what is investigated 3) How are these figures recorded 4) Are they linked to police recorded crimes 5) What support is given to victims. 6) What systems are there in place to identify repeat or vulnerable victims. From what i hear the victim gets an incident number and thats it. In my experience the majority of victims of fraud are the eld…

Andrew Bridgen MP tells BBC Radio 4 that for many, the £66k MPs salary would mean their kids having to 'go without' at Christmas. he is in favour of a 32% pay rise for MP's. You couldn't make it up! I think he should get an award for the Best Joke of the year.

Does anyone know about the new qualification Policing Knowledge Certificate. Its kind of just appeared from no where but it turns out you will need the qualification just to apply for the police force

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9841689/Senior-Met-Police-detective-jailed-for-15-months-over-corrupt-payments.html The only thing that disappoints me with this case is the Judge saying that if the News of the World had offered money, she would have taken it. He cannot possibly know that unless he is the first judge who can read someones mind. He should keep his accusations to himself on something he could not possibly prove. Too many judges in this country like to think they are God.

http://www.telegraph...bles-at-30.html - Ms May seems more and more determined to wreck the British Police Service. Chief at 30, she must be having a laugh.

Two men jailed for carrying out cyber attacks, including one online assault that cost payments giant PayPal at least £3.5m Christopher Weatherhead: who used online alias 'Nerdo', was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA A student and a church volunteer have been jailed for carrying out cyber attacks with the hacking group Anonymous, including one online assault that cost the payments giant PayPal at least £3.5m. Christopher Weatherhead, a Northampton University student, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Thursday for his part in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on PayPal, Visa and Mastercard in December 2010. The 22-yea…

Bogus emergency worker, 29, posed as a policeman and paramedic at scene of road accidents and tried to give first-aid An unemployed man has been banned from posing as a policeman or paramedic after turning up at the scene of accidents and attempting to give first aid to crash victims. Lee Westerman, 29, also terrified a motorist by shouting at her and threatening to give her a ticket while driving a car which he had illegally fitted with a siren and flashing lights. The callous hoaxer was issued with a five-year ASBO as well as being ordered to do unpaid work and hand over compensation to his victims. Banned: Lee Westerman has been given an ASBO forbidding him to imper…

A senior Metropolitan Police detective has been charged with offering information to the News of the World (NoW) newspaper. The Crown Prosecution Service said Det Ch Insp April Casburn had been charged with misconduct in a public office and would appear in court next month. She is the first person charged under Operation Elveden, which is investigating alleged payments to public officials by journalists. Det Ch Insp Casburn is accused of offering to give the paper information in September 2010 and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 1 October for an initial hearing. Alison Levitt, the CPS's principal legal adviser, said: "The CPS received a file of ev…

A senior Scotland Yard counter-terrorism officer has been jailed for 15 months for offering to sell information about the phone-hacking investigation to the News of the World.Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, 53, became the first person to be convicted as a result of the Yard’s Operation Elveden anti-corruption inquiry last month when she was found guilty of misconduct in public office. Passing sentence at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Fulford suggested he may have imposed a stiffer sentence if it had not been for the fact that Casburn had recently adopted a vulnerable child who would be affected by her absence. Casburn, who was in charge of the National Terrorist F…

Police have released details of inappropriate 999 calls they have received, including one from a man struggling to be served in McDonalds and a woman wanting a laptop password.Police have released details of inappropriate 999 calls they have received, including one from a man struggling to be served in McDonalds and a woman wanting a laptop password. West Midlands Police is tweeting details of the calls to encourage people to think before dialling 999.The force wants more people to use the non-emergency 101 number and keep 999 lines for life-or-death situations. The calls will be tweeted for 24 hours on Friday. One of the first tweets said: "999 call just received fr…

More than 200 police a year quit to avoid complaints: Misconduct allegations are not being properly investigated The police complaints commission today admitted that only 21 out of 8,000 corruption allegations against officers had been investigated, as a damning assessment of the watchdog's shortcomings was published. Chairwoman Dame Anne Owers said she did not have the resources to do more, after a report by MPs attacked the organisation as ‘woefully under-equipped and hamstrung'. More than 200 officers a year are escaping disciplinary charges by retiring or resigning, the report warned. Staggeringly, last year nearly one in every four officers was subject of a complain…

Heard about this the other day when I popped into my station. Was initially surprised to hear that attempted murder was charged, but on hearing more of the details the charge is absolutely correct. Glad that it has stuck and that they have been found guilty. Hopefully the sentence will reflect the severity of the charge.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21272026 The most interesting thing about these figures and worthy of discussion is that according to some people that have access to these statistics (I can't find them yet) the number of Special Constables is also down down 248 or 1.3 per cent.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271417/The-moment-police-officer-pulled-drunk-driver-car-window-feet-sparking-year-legal-battle.html Looks to me like the driver didn't fancy waiting around to get lifted so tried to push the door open to either fight or run. The CI wasn't having that so the driver decides to, feet first, exit via the window, then proceeding to punch said CI. 1. How is that not assault police? 2. How has that warranted a 2 year internal investigation?