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It must be nice for the Judge to be able to make up the sentencing guidelines as he goes along !! Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063206/Crooked-court-clerk-took-500-bungs-wipe-motoring-offences-justice-computers-makes-history-person-jailed-Bribery-Act.html#ixzz1e7u6X6Vi

This item is on the BBC News web site BBC News - Bouncers & Cuffs I wonder what your thoughts are? I can see some misuse on the horizon!

US guns smuggled into UK How did they keep getting through the airports?

http://www.iosh.co.uk/news_and_events/news...81263296391653A Shining laser beams at aircraft has become illegal following the introduction of a new law. I thought it was against the law, reckless endangerment.

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Cradling a sawn-off shotgun, he stands with the confident ease of a veteran gangster. But the gunman is just 13 years old, and was involved in a ten-day crime spree that brought terror to a city. Jobe Kilbride was the youngest of a gang of five teenagers who robbed shopkeepers and taxi drivers in Liverpool at gunpoint. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049511/Jobe-Kilbride-pictured-Boy-13-jailed-4-Liverpool-robbery-rampage.html#ixzz1dy0gJItP Am I getting old, or are these horrors getting younger? WD Merseyside Police!!

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Chandlers Ford Shooting: Officers Exonerated Wed, 16 November 2011Courtesy of: Cliff Caswell - Police Oracle Police officers and staff from Metropolitan Police have been exonerated of any wrongdoing following an incident in which two armed men were shot dead. Mark Nunes and Andrew Markland died when police opened fire during a violent robbery of a cash-in-transit van outside a bank in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire, in 2007. The results of the investigation came after a jury Winchester Crown Court returned a verdict of two counts of lawful killing late on Tuesday, November 15. However, the IPCC report raised a string of concerns, which focused on the conflicting roles of…

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16110512 The Metropolitan Police have asked retailers to free up shop staff on full pay to work as special constables during the Olympic Games in an effort to boost police numbers. The programme called Employer Supported Policing could help to fill the deficit in security personnel needed to protect London and the Olympic venues in 2012. i cannot see Retailers standing for this, I believe most are trying to cut the hours of their staff. Looking at stories like this one is it any wonder the U.S. wants to bring in the FBI to London.

Mobility Scooter Menace http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8436558.stm Whilst at a neighbouring station a few weeks back i couldnt help noticing district priorities and one of the top one in some wards was mobility scooter accidents. So i guess they are a bit of a problem. Anybody had any dealings with Mobility Scooter accidents/incidents?

So the eviction has (finally) started and has turned violent... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-15357932 Is anyone really surprised by this? Already the Travellers are claiming that the police are being heavy handed, yet police are being pelted with bricks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15729023 Only a small proportion of the tens of thousands of children who run away each year are reported to police as missing, a report suggests. "Only 17% of runaways said they were reported to the police as missing." - Holy Tim on a tricycle! if we are only dealing with the 17% who go missing then i hope upon hope that they dont all start being reported. we only just about cope with the dozens who go missing every single day. Most of whom are in the care of social service who will report people missing at the drop of a hat, which is of course following procedure, but not that helpful compared to keeping them in. "The charity says one …

Less than helpful comments. I would have thought it would have been better for everyone to showing a united front rather than engaging in inter-force mud-slinging

A man has been arrested after being rescued naked from the sea in Dorset. Coastguards received reports of a man in the water in Poole Harbour off Poole Town Quay in the early hours of Saturday. The town's inshore lifeboat was launched to help the man but when the crew pulled him from the water they discovered he was naked. The man, who was not injured, was arrested by police on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-15711916 Best D&D arrest ever. Would love to be the one booking him in.