UK Policing News

Scotland Yard was accused of hiring out officers for cash yesterday after Richard Branson’s business empire paid for police investigating a massive fraud. The cable television company Virgin Media agreed to fund the Metropolitan force’s overtime bill in an investigation into a set-box racket costing £144million a year. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093531/Scotland-Yard-accused-hiring-officers-emerges-Virgin-paid-police-investigate-144m-fraud-case.html#ixzz1lWUPf6Et ​The slant that the DM emphases in it`s headline is an odd one. I see no reason people should not pay for the Police to sort out their nightmares.

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2012/01/29/suspected-drug-dealer-escapes-from-police-custody-while-in-birmingham-city-hospital-97319-30222213/ A SUSPECTED drug dealer escaped from police custody when he was escorted to a Midland hospital by a special constable. The 18-year-old man attacked the male volunteer cop and a woman police officer, then kicked through a window at Birmingham’s City Hospital and fled on Friday night. The breakout is the third high-profile prisoner escape in a week and follows the nationwide manhunt for Coventry convict Andrew Farndon and Tipton murder suspect John Anslow. West Midlands Police had arrested the latest prisoner to …

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A man accused of murdering a couple in their Birmingham home has been found dead in prison. Lithuanian Rimvydas Liorancas, 37, of Booth Street, Winson Green, was charged with murdering Avtar, 62, and Carole Kolar, 58, earlier this month. Their bodies were found at their Handsworth Wood home by their son, an officer with West Midlands Police. Mr Liorancas was found hanged in his cell in Woodhill jail in Milton Keynes on Saturday. The police investigation into the couple's death will continue and the completed findings will now be presented to the coroner at the inquest, police said. "The couple's family were informed at the earliest possible stage of the news and we a…

A serving policewoman who bit almost a third of a man’s ear off in a drunken nightclub brawl has been jailed for a year. PC Helen O'Donoghue, who has since resigned from the Metropolitan Police, attacked former friend Alessandro Guastella when she bumped into him on a boozy night out. Efforts to reattach the severed part of his ear have since failed, leaving Mr Guastella permanently disfigured, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard The pair had been close friends, but fell out - each blaming the other for the rift. They met by chance at the Electrowerkz club in Islington, north London, on November 28 2010. Mr Guastella had fallen asleep in a corner at about 4am when O’Do…

Urgent cabinet reshuffle in Progress!!! This statement is made by the Crown Prosecution Service in the interests of transparency and accountability to explain the decisions reached in the cases of Mr Christopher Huhne and Ms Vasiliki Pryce and to explain the time taken in arriving at these decisions. A criminal complaint was made to Essex Police in May 2011, alleging that Ms Pryce had accepted responsibility for a speeding offence committed by Mr Huhne in 2003. That complaint was investigated by Essex Police and a file was passed to the CPS in late July 2011. The CPS advised that further investigations should be made, including obtaining certain material from a nationa…

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Here is a strange one. Commit murder and after seven years you now dont have to declare it so long as the job does not require a CRB clearance. Climb a flagpole and go for a job with CRB clearance and find it stays on for life - brill! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9057643/Hundreds-of-thousands-of-criminals-to-get-clean-slate-in-law-change.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15847349 Counter-terrorism police are not ready for the introduction of new laws to replace controversial control orders on suspects, the BBC understands. The bill which would create Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPims) is due to pass its final hurdle in Parliament on Wednesday. But some senior officers have told the BBC they still feel they are not fully prepared and a delay is necessary. The Home Office said "extensive preparations" were ongoing for TPims. TPims are due to come into effect early in 2012. Eleven people are currently subject to control orders. Their movements and their access to communications…

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From AP/BBC Birmingham and BRMB/Orion Media News; Will try to post more as it arrives, sounds serious :/ Appearing to be Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College...

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