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Bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion on the plastic box http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14039229 It was a normal busy Friday morning in the small West Yorkshire market town of Wetherby when someone working in a café spotted a man acting a bit suspiciously on the street. He appeared to have a small plastic box in his hand and after fiddling with the container he bent down and hid it under a flower box standing on the pavement. He then walked off, talking to somebody on his phone. Karen Brittain, whose café door is just a few feet from where the container was left on 1 July, was alarmed by the man's behaviour and called the police, who the…

The Sun, once again not letting the truth get in the way of a good story. click here Landmark health and safety rules are being issued by Employment Minister Chris Grayling to let 999 workers do their jobs as they see fit. The announcement has been timed to mark The Sun's annual Police Bravery Awards this evening. It also comes on the sixth anniversary of the 7/7 terror attacks. Under the revised Health and Safety Executive code NO member of the emergency services will be investigated or prosecuted for breaching petty laws while acting heroically. In the worst case, Jordan Lyon, ten, drowned in a pond in Wigan, Greater Manchester, in 2007 while two community support o…

POLICE have sparked outrage after it emerged that they have been breaking into homes and businesses in a bid to highlight the dangers of burglary. Officers have been climbing through open windows and leaving calling cards to alert residents to the threat of leaving their property insecure. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/254643/254643? we seen this sort of story before, if you think you may get shocked by seeing a Officer appear in your front room, how would you feel if it was a masked intruder?

The £64,000 trolley raid: Scrap metal thieves steal 800 carts from Asda store... after paying £1 each for them Thieves have stolen more than 800 shopping trolleys from a supermarket - leaving the store with a bill for £64,000. The Asda store has seen row after row of trolleys go missing over 12 days and it is thought that they are being sold as scrap metal. The theft was carried out at a supermarket car park at the Eastgate Shopping Centre in Basildon, Essex. Asda crisis: The store in the Eastgate centre in Essex has been left with empty bays until new trolleys are delivered Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1RAS8mOTt

A schoolboy was today banned from the road for drink driving - on an expensive lawnmower. Sixth-former Joel Sebastien Maunder, 18, was more than double the legal drink-drive limit when he was caught sitting on the 15mph ride-on mower. Company director's son Maunder jumped on the £1,700 mower after the drinking session at his £500,000 luxury family home - and set off down a quiet village road. He had driven nearly a mile down the road on a trip to see friends on a Saturday evening last month when he was pulled over. Prosecutor Richie Paul said: 'He was slowly travelling down a road when he was spotted on the Lawnflite vehicle by passing police. 'He was breathalysed and…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-14012107 As you can probably guess, this is being discussed on a few other sites and the general opinion is that it is all the fault of the police officer. They obviously aren't aware of Rule 126 of the Highway Code

A police force nominated themselves and won a public relations award for the way they handled a tragedy - of a schoolgirl knocked down and killed by a speeding patrol car. The family of Hayley Adamson have reacted with anger that Northumbria Police put themselves forward for the prize after the horrifying smash. Hayley, 16, was killed when a speeding patrol car with no blue light or sirens on smashed into her in May 2008. 'Insult to her memory': Hayley Adamson, left, and jailed officer John Dougal whose force, Northumbria Police, received an award for their 'skill' in handling the death After a five-day trial at Newcastle Crown Court, PC John Dougal was jailed for th…

A district judge says the case of a man who threw a chicken bone across a road and caused a four-car pile-up is the most bizarre he has ever known. An unmarked police car made an emergency stop when Andre Varciana threw the bone at friends in Swansea. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-14012107 Few sites i go to, some blame the Officer for stopping so sharply, i blame those who were driving to closely behind the Officer.

A suspected burglar was electrocuted and killed after breaking into an electricity substation. The 30-year-old man suffered a 33,000-volt electric shock while apparently trying to steal copper cable. An accomplice is believed to have called an ambulance on a mobile phone after the accident at around 11.45pm on Wednesday. The second man waved down paramedics as they arrived and then fled from the substation in Ransomes Way in Ipswich. Suffolk Police were alerted by ambulance staff and found the man dead inside the substation. Officers found the rear doors of the substation had been forced and tools which had been used to cut metal cables were discarded nearby. EDG En…

POLICE have sparked outrage after it emerged that they have been breaking into homes and businesses in a bid to highlight the dangers of burglary. Officers have been climbing through open windows and leaving calling cards to alert residents to the threat of leaving their property insecure. One lone woman was shocked when a uniformed officer walked into her front room while she was watching TV. Civil liberties campaigners last night demanded an end to the scheme, calling it an invasion of privacy. Daniel Hamilton, of the Big Brother Watch campaign group, said: “This case is symptomatic of the rapid growth of the nanny state. For police officers to be entering people’s…

CAN I JUST LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT PC DAVID RATHBAND'S BOOK TANGO 190 IS OUT TODAY . SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE BLUE LIGHT FOUNDATION AND BUY A COPY FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR FRIENDS. AND AT CHRISTMAS I WILL BE ASKING AGAIN. £11.19 ON AMAZON BUT I WOULD GO INTO A BOOK SHOP AND PAY THE FULL PRICE.

Police chiefs were ticked off by the Home Secretary yesterday for failing to join the war on bureaucracy. Theresa May said many forces had simply replaced abandoned national targets with local ones. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011176/Theresa-May-accuses-chief-constables-failure-war-bureaucracy.html#ixzz1RGweER66 So how much paperwork do Police chiefs have to fill in in order to keep up with government statistics? "Mrs May refused to identify the chief constables who are failing to listen to her call to lift the paperwork burden." So we have no idea who they are or if they really exist.

Royal Humane Society Police Medal Royal Humane Society Police Medal 2010 awarded to heroic PC The Royal Humane Society today honoured a policeman for his actions in saving a woman and getting his man in a script which could have come from a blockbuster film. Royal Humane Society President, Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, today awarded PC Robert Condy-Young the 2010 Police Medal for the greatest act of gallantry by a police officer after he pulled a woman from a car that was about to be engulfed by flames. The 35-year-old officer from Devon & Cornwall Constabulary responded to the horrific car accident near Shaldon in Devon at 2.30am on April 5, 2009. …

Its been bad down there for a while, but this last week they are going crazy!