UK Policing News

A police officer jumped into near-freezing water in the middle of the night to save a man from the River Thames. Pc George Alleway was called to Kingston, south London, at 0245 GMT on 12 February after residents reported a man in his 30s in a distressed state. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12502831 Well done Pc George Alleway!! Don`t Police forces have a policy on diving into water for what ever reason? health and safety.

Hate preacher Abu Qatada will be banned from taking his youngest child to school when he is released from jail today. The Government has won a court ruling preventing him from flaunting his freedom at the school gates while ministers battle to find a way of deporting him. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100070/Muslim-hate-preacher-Abu-Qatada-Security-operation-costing-10-000-week.html#ixzz1mG8pPywW No money to run an efficient Police force due to #NoConfidenceInTeresaMay , but we have £10,000 a week for this horrible individual. Is it me, or are our prioritys all mixed up?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17006269 So the Met have launched a new hotline for people to report 'suspicious' behaviour, but I can help but feel this is more damaging than helpful. This campaign just makes people more suspicious about their neighbours which IMO will only damage community cohesion and relations as a whole. If people are genuinely concerned about someone they think could be involved in terrorist activities, surely they can just phone 101? The hotline and most importantly the press coverage that comes with it, is superfluous and counter productive; all IMHO obviously.

Link

http://www.thisishul...tail/story.html Video: Was it wrong to cheer them on when they got hold of him Well done to those guys who chased after him, very brave tackling a guy with a chainsaw!

A look into this ever growing problem. Existing legislation to tackle the scourge of metal theft has “passed its sell by date” and a radical overhaul is now needed, a Government Minister has asserted. Addressing delegates at the ACPO Metal Theft seminar in Kettering, Lord Henley, Minister of State for Crime Prevention and Anti-Social Behaviour, said that it was time to call a halt to “our infrastructure being damaged and heritage compromised”. http://policeoracle....ttle_44674.html and the two hour upload. :)

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1458664_police-worker-will-not-face-charges-over-drugs-death-of-28-year-old-girlfriend-at-their-stockport-home Apologies if already discussed.

Unfreakinbelievable, just could not care less, citizens arrest in order?

A teenager from Cambridgeshire has been warned she faces a possible jail term after making 756 silent 999 calls over the Christmas weekend. Kerry Ann Moate, 18, of Samuel Jones Crescent, Little Paxton, was arrested at home after police traced her phone. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-16357423 Hope the prison sentence is long enough.

http://www.dailyreco...86908-23743945/ Good result for Strathclyde!

http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Officers-Lash-Out-At-Precept-Decision_44690.html The officers of Gloucestershire are, apparently, annoyed........I wonder what the ramifications will be to the good citizens of that fine county.........

Daily Mail

[quote Judge catches clerk watching PORNOGRAPHY during rape trial he said was 'boring' Clerk looked at obscene images as rape victim gave harrowing evidence Judge spots him looking at filthy pictures during court proceedings By KERRY MCQUEENEY Last updated at 2:09 PM on 7th February 2012 Comments (57) Share Judge Nigel Seed (pictured) was forced to take action after spotting the clerk looking at porn A court clerk who watched hardcore pornography during a rape trial 'because he was bored' was caught looking at the explicit material right under the nose of the judge. Debasish Majumder, 54, accessed the obscene images while the victim ga…

Source: BBC News