UK Policing News

Source: BBC News There's something about that surname

Police in Rio de Janeiro have voted to go on strike to demand better pay - just a week before the Brazilian city's annual carnival. The state legislature had hoped to avoid industrial action by offering a 39% salary increase. But unions said that rise was not enough to make up for decades of falling wages. Protesters in Rio cheered when it was announced that the strike would go ahead. A military police officer taking part in the protest, Tiago Rodrigues, said Brazilians should stay at home while the strike was on. "We do not want a strike, we want better salaries," he said. "Unfortunately, the population will now be caught up in this during carnival. "We are advisi…

A police constable has been praised for his bravery after he ran into a blazing building and rescued 15 people in the early hours of Saturday 4 February. PC Matt Hill was the first response officer on scene at the fire which had taken hold of a large grocer's shop in Ilford Lane, Ilford. On realising that people were trapped in a first-floor flat above the store, he acted without hesitation to run into the smoke-filled building and get them out. As he reached the top of the stairs, he found that the front rooms were also by now ablaze and that the only way out was via the rear fire escape. However with the help of two members of the public who had followed him into the…

This is the second one in a couple of weeks I think... Source: BBC News

Link I posted this quote and link as it seems to have the most information about the ongoing incident Edit: Spelling

Source - http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/08/broadcasters-dale-farm-eviction-footage?cat=media&type=article If its not the daily mail it's the guardian, "quickly, brush past the evidence and lets mention that an officer used a taser!" Thought someone might be interested though Edit - appologies if it doesn't look very well laid out above, I had to do this on my iPhone and did what I could remembering code :-)

http://news.sky.com/...rticle/16164844 Absolutely disgusting, these people need locking up.

Telegraph

Police seem to dish cash out for peoples entertainment willy nilly, Time to stop?

I understand that we have regulations and policies in place, to help stop and quell any member of the public being indirectly involved in any pursuit/ Police incident. By the way this reads, this was an unfortunate incident, but should the pursuit have been called off so soon- using and reading what we have?....

Thousands of “faceless” officials should lose the right to gain entry to people’s homes without a warrant, under legal changes demanded by the House of Lords tonight. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9065047/Thousands-of-officials-should-lose-right-to-enter-your-home-without-a-warrant-peers-say.html My question is, you have a neighbour creating noise via music at late night, how would councils then be able to stop it?

http://youtu.be/rngaY-Q_TPM Saw this on channel 5 news, only going on what informtion is available it looks heavy handed to me. What do you think?