UK Policing News

The Met have decided against trying to force the Guardian to reveal the sources they have regarding the phone hacking scandal Clicky Is it just me or is this whole phone hacking thing a big fat mess?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-13672195 A police officer and former Mr Gay UK sexually assaulted three men and raped a fourth on a Christmas night out with colleagues in Leeds, a court has heard. Pc Mark Carter, 28, is alleged to have dragged one man by the hair, punched him and raped him in a hotel room. Mr Carter, of Station Lane, Birkenshaw, Bradford, denies three counts of sexual assault and two rapes. He is an officer with West Yorkshire Police and a former holder of the Mr Gay UK title, Leeds Crown Court heard. The jury was told that Mr Carter had been in a restaurant in Leeds on 18 December 2009 enjoying a Christmas celebration with colleagues. Sa…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-14943010 Two police officers have been injured after a bomb was thrown at them as they responded to an alarm call at business premises in Newtownabbey, County Antrim. It happened near Toys R Us on the Mill Road at about 00:20 BST on Friday. The police officers' injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. Chief Constable Matt Baggott condemned those reponsible for the Newtownabbey attack and bomb attacks in County Londonderry on Wednesday. A police officer and a retired doctor who works as a forensic medical officer were targeted near Claudy in the earlier incidents. "These people not only threaten the lives of po…

A man who was stabbed after standing up to a gang abusing a pregnant woman and a pensioner on a bus in east London said he would "do it again". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14988762 Got to admire this fellow for sticking up for victims of abuse, still way to many nutters about thou.

A policeman shot himself in the head after his partner saw a text message from another person on his mobile phone. PC Mike Gard, 37, was off duty when Donna Shrubshall confronted him about the message at their home in Worlingham, Suffolk. Miss Shrubshall, his partner of nine years and the mother of his two children, told the hearing that she believed he had formed a 'friendship' with another person. When asked how he reacted, she said: 'He was okay. He just kept saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry".' PC Gard who worked in towns across north Suffolk then left for his mother's home in Blofield Heath near Norwich, taking his licenced shotgun which he used once a year t…

The London Evening Standard has published the pictures of 40 people the police want to speak to following the London Riots http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-pictures/Help+catch+the+Rioters-latest.do?id=23383055&page=1

Police leader Sir Hugh Orde has strongly denied claims that ministers had to intervene to boost police numbers during the summer riots. The respected president of the Association of Chief Police Officers said it was untrue and had caused the greatest anger he had ever witnessed in a 34-year career. In an impassioned attack, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers said it was untrue and had caused the greatest anger he had ever witnessed in a 34-year career. "I have never sensed such anger in the service in my career as when officers felt they had been unfairly criticised for deployment tactics," he told a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat conferenc…

When a serial burglar plagued a tower of blocks police knew they had to come up with an inventive way to catch their prolific thief. But West Midlands Police were not to be deterred and laid an ingenious trap they knew the burglar could not resist - by setting up a fake house in a tower block in Birmingham. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037730/To-catch-thief-Police-set-fake-HOUSE-snare-prolific-burglar.html#ixzz1YOSD9tQB Nice one!! Shame the courts couldn`t care less. "He was handed a 12-month sentence suspended for two years, a two-year intensive supervisory order and ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work." that is what one can expect fo…

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I'm a freelance journalist working for a national paper writing a feature about serving officers with second jobs, particularly in the Met. I suspect the numbers have gone up in the current climate with perhaps less overtime available and possibly partners working shorter hours or losing jobs. I wonder if any serving Met officers would be prepared to talk to me about what jobs they do, the reasons they do it, and the reaction they get from senior officers/peers. I've only joined the forum for this purpose and as far as I can see this post doesn't break the conditions of the forum. I don't expect an entirely unsuspicious or necessarily friendly response from the memb…

A student who was arrested under the Terrorism Act and kept in custody for six days has been awarded £20,000 compensation by the police. Rizwaan Sabir, 22, who was studying for a master's at Nottingham University, was arrested after downloading a terrorist manual for his research on al Qaeda. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037708/Student-wrongfully-arrested-suspicion-terrorist-awarded-20-000-police.html#ixzz1YD2YYR00 Something odd about this one. Police did everything correctly got the warrants, got an extension, yet they pay out £20,000. From everything I can understand in this story, it seems it would be better for Police never to leave their …

http://www.bbc.co.uk...london-14960384 nice operation by police ,

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/off_duty_cop_punched_woman_in_dispute_court_told_1_3047319 Quite a sorry story really, if this is how it happened, that a police officer does the sort of things that we hate the most.