UK Policing News

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9694788/UK-Border-Agency-made-no-effort-to-trace-120000-missing-immigrants.html Here is another gross failure by Ms May and her department.

Not sure if it fits into this category; apologies if it doesn't. http://www.bbc.co.uk...orfolk-20436164

Lancashire Magistrate faces 20,000 fraud charge A magistrate has been charged with fraud after allegedly claiming over £22,000 in expenses he was not entitled to. Carlton Janson, 68, has been charged with two counts of obtaining property by deception and two of fraud by false representation. Mr Janson has been sitting at Bolton Magistrates' Court since 2000. The charges relate to claims of £22,076.02 which were made during a 5 year period between 2006 and 2011. The 68 year old stopped sitting as a magistrate 12 months ago according to a spokesman from the Judicial Office. Magistrates deal with 95% of all criminal cases in Britain and are unpaid but can claim e…

This is the shocking moment a 16-year-old girl was beaten unconscious and fell headfirst onto the pavement after a thug ran up from behind and knocked her out cold. The teenager, whose face has been blurred to protect her identity, was innocently walking along the the road in Plaistow, east London, last Tuesday when she was savagely attacked in broad daylight. Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2Cmbynmst In answer to the topic, probably not, but must come close!

what an Idiot.

Thompson sentenced to 11 and half years in prison Gordon Thompson set the House of Reeves ablaze during the riots last year Gordon Thompson, the looter who started a massive fire that destroyed a 140-year-old furniture shop during last summer's riots was sentenced to 11 and half years in prison today. The blaze at House of Reeves in Croydon, south London, last August was so fierce it spread to buildings on the other side of the road and tram lines in the street caught fire. # Reeves: Losing furniture store 'like a bereavement' Maurice Reeves and son Trevor make a statement outside Old Bailey Credit: Maurice Reeves, the owner of a …

And to think the then chairman of Hampshire Police Authority, who was a candidate for the PCC role in Hampshire was reprimanded as a result for leaking information. Thank God she lost the election! HE has spent four years trying to clear his name and save his distinguished reputation. Hampshire’s former assistant chief constable Steve Watts gave 32 years service to the police. He was so dedicated that he never took a day off sick. But just days off his retirement he found himself on the other side of the table when he was investigated by Met Police chiefs over claims he had broken the Official Secrets Act. They are claims which the father-of-four always denied and which…

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If you wish to raise your blood pressure, then have a look at this "story" and the comments of our beloved public. http://www.dailymail...-old-force.html It's an article about officers who retire at 50 and get well paid civvie jobs in the force............

http://www.bbc.co.uk...mshire-20366806 IT makes you sick when you find out it is one of your own.

Source Not the best image to represent the force.

Surely the police in Scotland have more important things to do, but on the other hand if the horse said 'neigh', then obviously he wasn't hungry. http://www.telegraph...lice-horse.html

http://www.dailymail...-old-force.html I don't understand what the Daily Mail is trying to achieve, 'revealed' as if it's news that someone suited to a job shouldn't get it? (Edited; sp) I feel the only redeeming feature to this article is the top rated comment beneath it (which I think sums up the nasty tone of the article); "This article is basically one gigantic lie and I really haven't the energy to pick all of its inaccuracies to pieces. I will simply say that the Home Secretary doesn't 'want' to change things, she already 'is' changing things. Pension contributions are changing to nearly 15% over the next 2 years. Officers face bills of £500 per month in pension …