UK Policing News

http://www.bbc.co.uk...london-20268721 Nice to see the scumbag sent down for a long time.

A police firearms officer who conspired to lie after he was arrested for drinking and driving has been jailed. Michael Turner, 44, of Witham in Essex, was jailed for 18 months at Chelmsford Crown Court for perverting the course of justice. The court heard he and former partner Nicola Howell, a nurse, had lied when Turner was tried for drink-driving at Witham Magistrates' Court in 2010. Howell, 49, was jailed for six months for perverting the course of justice. The pair were found guilty of conspiracy after a trial at the crown court. The trial was told how Howell and Turner, a Metropolitan Police firearms officer and driving expert, had an argument on 9 May 2010 and T…

Thousands of voters could be left in the dark about forthcoming Police and Crime Commissioner elections because of delays in sending out voter information, it is feared. The Home Office has been given an urgent warning over difficulties members of the public have faced in obtaining details about candidates in their area. The elections regulator, the Electoral Commission, said it had been deluged with complaints from voters wanting candidate leaflets which had not arrived. Others complained they were unable to get through on a special telephone number to request candidate leaflets. Commissioners in 41 force areas outside London will be elected next week and take extensiv…

http://www.bbc.co.uk...london-20251289

Officers and staff at Lincolnshire Constabulary have been left shocked and saddened after a popular and valued special was killed on his way to a training course at force HQ. SC Scott Bennett, who was 24 and from Grimsby, died when his Toyota Celica was involved in a collision with a lorry at Welton on the morning of November 3. As a relative newcomer to the force, he had been heading to complete his personal safety training with other officers from his intake when he was killed. Remembered for his commitment and enthusiasm, SC Bennett had joined Lincolnshire Special Constabulary in October last year and was stationed at Louth. Stephen Woodcock, the force’s Chie…

Some more bad apples gone - the last paragraph just made me cringe

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9653552/Police-morale-is-plummeting-says-Lord-Stevens.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-20268217 Well done to all the eighty officers on there bike ride to raise cash for the North West Police Benevolent Fund. :clapping:

Sad news for the members of the police enforcements in Italy: Yesterday morning Antonello di Mauro committed suicide in his office of the Municipal Police of Milan. Antonello was one of the foremost experts in the detection of fake documents in Italy and also outside our borders. His name was known almost everywhere in Italy and was famous for his willingness to help any colleague needed him also through phone calls received autside of service hours. He had in fact created out of nothing the Office of the Fake Documentary in the Municipal Police of Milan, which over the years has become a point of reference for the topic at national and international level and he also…

A friend and i were leisurely discussing the use and deployment of batons within the line of duty :whistle2: . He believed that batons are rarely used by officers as C.S is more favourable in self defence than striking (he presumed ). However i believe strictly talking self defence, i.e restraining a person an officer wouldn't hesitate to draw his baton if he felt it was necessary. I would love it if you anyone would could settle this debate, by firstly giving there personal experiences of using a baton, strictly in terms of restraint and/or self defence. Then Secondly stating which item there more inclined to use say if both were required, basically which one would you …

The Witch Finder, Ponce Finder General. This man is such a slob, he hates the Tory's with a vengeance, and will try and do anything to 'get one'. He cannot bear the thought that it was his Numpties, Blair, Brown, Balls, Cooper etc etc, who drove the UK to the brink of disaster, money wise, and left the UK in such a parlous state. His 'bee in the bonnet' at the moment is the Childrens Home paedophile incident in North Wales, I just wish he would let the police and the enquiry get on with it, without sticking his big gob in. The man has such a complex about something, perhaps his upbringing, that he hates anyone with money, especially if they are Tory. He loves to th…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20164370#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa Scum who did this hope they get them soon,and my deepest sympathy are with the family, friends and colleagues of the murdered prison officer.