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A move to recruit hundreds of extra London police officers has been criticised as panic-stricken after scores of trainees failed security vetting, health checks and classroom exams. More than 400 Police Community Support Officers were selected for training to become fully-fledged officers in February. It was part of moves to meet Boris Johnson’s target of deploying 32,000 police on the capital’s streets. But about 60 were kicked off a month later for what Scotland Yard called “a number of reasons relating to national recruitment standards”, though 22 were reinstated after a review by Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey. Another 20 pulled out before the course began.…

An off-duty police officer was killed when his motorbike collided with a car in Cockermouth. PC Craig Postlethwaite, 38, from the Workington area, died on Lamplugh Road, just after 17:15 BST on Wednesday. The driver of the car, a 65-year-old man from the Penrith area, was taken to the Cumberland Infirmary and treated for shock. Sgt Jim Lloyd paid tribute to PC Postlethwaite, calling him a "genuinely nice and thoroughly decent bloke". Sgt Lloyd worked with PC Postlethwaite in the West Cumbria Roads Policing Unit and is a close family friend. He said: "Craig was an exemplary officer and will be missed by all who knew him, he was an exceptional man and a very dedicated …

http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Criminal+Justice/2012/Apr/05/Drink-Driving-Officer-Banned-For-A-Year_46897.html officer turns up for his shift and drives a police van while drunk and thinks he can get away with it.and now found guilty of drink driving.

Met suspends eight officers and civilian in racism inquiry Eight Metropolitan Police officers and a civilian staff member have been suspended as the IPCC investigates complaints of racism against the force. The Met said an acting sergeant and two PCs based in Newham had been suspended on Thursday over a claim of racist abuse after last year's London riots. Five more officers and a civilian staff member have been suspended within the past year over seven other complaints. Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey said the Met "does not tolerate racism". In total, 20 officers are being investigated in relation to the 10 claims of racism. Mr Mackey said the force had referred a…

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Rank-and-file police officers are to stage a protest over proposed changes to their pay and conditions. The Police Federation said it was planning to hold an event in central London on 10 May. It would not confirm what its plans involve. It comes as the federation's 135,000 members across England and Wales are being balloted on whether they want the right to strike. Along with the armed forces and prison officers, the police are banned in law from taking industrial action. Many officers are angry with the government in the wake of 20% budget cuts and proposals for the most wide-ranging reform of police pay and conditions in more than 30 years. The national federation …

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RIP for the student and a sad reminder of what can happen when doing repsonse driving. BBC 5 April 2012 Last updated at 21:32 (http://www.bbc.co.uk...ingham-17632629) A student has died after being hit by an unmarked West Midlands Police car in Birmingham.The 24-year-old Chinese man was hit by a black BMW as he stepped out in to the road outside Newtown shopping centre at about 19:00 BST on Wednesday. He was taken to hospital with severe head and back injuries, but died early on Thursday afternoon. The car had been responding to reports of a stolen vehicle but the force said it had not been involved in a pursuit. Police said the family of the dead man, who has not y…

http://policeoracle.com/news/Children+and+Young+People/2012/Apr/04/Mayoral-Candidates-Set-Out-Policing-Stall_46872.html A police officer could be based in every state-funded secondary school in London to help tackle knife crime, it has been proposed. New proposal could be, more money for Police/Policing?

Two prisoners escape from jail van in Manchester The van was attacked by masked and armed men at about 0830 BST Two prisoners have escaped from a jail van after it was ambushed by armed men on the outskirts of Manchester city centre. A number of men attacked the van in Trinity Way at about 0830 BST, Greater Manchester Police said. They fled in a Saab, which was found abandoned about a mile away in Barrow Street, Salford. A security guard has been taken to hospital but his injuries are not believed to be life threatening. Det Sgt Paul Copplestone urged anyone with information to contact Greater Manchester Police. Traffic congestion He said: "We are sure that th…

Two marked police vehicles crashed into one another while responding to a reported break-in this afternoon. A police car and police van collided at the junction of Overton Road and Worcester Road, Sutton, at about 2.30pm. There were two officers in each vehicle and they are reported to be suffering from whiplash injuries. London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade were at the scene. It is understood no other vehicles or pedestrians were involved. Bruce Clanford, who witnessed the incident, said: “I was driving down the road [Worcester Road] towards Cheam away from Sutton station and the police van came out of a junction going about 30 or 40 miles per hour. A po…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9149926/The-Governments-attitude-to-the-police-is-criminal.html Crime is going up, so we should reduce the number of police and undermine their morale. Such is the apparent direction of Government policy. Police spending is being cut by 20 per cent; the number of police officers has already plummeted. In the 12 months to the end of September 2011, the number of officers fell by 6,144 to 138,871, the lowest since 2002. Some good feedback from the Media at last. :)

Police in Nottinghamshire have said they will be discussing compensation for a car window smashed after officers tried to "save" a toy, stuffed dog. Officers received a call from a concerned passer-by who reported seeing a dog left on the back seat of car parked on Church Lane in Mansfield. The police officers smashed a window in the Mercedes and discovered it was, in fact, a toy dog. The toy's owner, Gordon Williams, 80, said police had done the right thing. "I know Little Willy is quite realistic and if they weren't sure about it, they did a good thing as we don't want any more dogs dying in the heat of a car," said Mr Williams. He said it cost £180 to repair the d…

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