UK Policing News

What kind of police service do we want? This question was posed a few years ago by Sir Ian (now Lord) Blair, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, in his Dimbleby Lecture for the BBC. He quoted Robert Peel, who founded the Met in 1829: "The police are the public and the public are the police". The citizens of Britain, said Lord Blair, must decide what they want their police to do. A laudable concept indeed – yet the general public is routinely excluded from a debate that is conducted exclusively among police chiefs, politicians and others in the criminal justice elite. If the rest of us were to be consulted, what would our answer be? For a start, most people wou…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-12174563 A man has been convicted of common assault for throwing a snowball at a police community support officer. Dean Smith was shopping with his family in Swadlincote in December when the snowball hit Claire North. He was given a 14-day curfew and told to pay £85 costs after admitting the charge at Derby Magistrates' Court. The 31-year-old's solicitor said the case should never have been brought, but the prosecution argued that he had a grudge against the PCSO. The snowball hit Ms North's police radio - which was on her chest - on the afternoon of 2 December, the court heard. 'Not trivial' Smith, of Swadli…

Police were this morning trying to regain order in the streets of Belfast after rioting broke out. Plastic bullets and water cannon were used by officers to disperse crowds in Castlereagh Street and Albertbridge Road, east Belfast. A spokesman for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said it was working with the community to end the violence. Confrontation: Officers charge rioters in east Belfast after more rioting broke out Officers had been hit with stones and other missiles thrown by youths and police vehicles were also damaged. The rioting was reportedly less severe than an outbreak of violence last month in the city when a photographer was shot in the leg. R…

In an explicit warning to ministers Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), will say that scale of the upheaval risks "compromising the safety of citizens for reasons of expediencyâ€. Sir Hugh will today call on the Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to slow the pace of the cuts and reforms, most of which are expected to be in place by 2013 at the latest. He will say that if reforms are "mismanaged" by ministers it could "threaten the impartial model of policing that has existed for 180 years and is revered across the world". His intervention comes as the police service faces an array of reforms including reviews into pay and condi…

It should have been attempted murder. A Spanish man has been sentenced to four years in prison after he admitted injuring a policewoman during 12 July riots in Ardoyne last year. Rodger Jarro Costa, 29, pleaded guilty to attempting to commit grievous bodily harm last month, just as his trial was about to begin. Costa, with an address at Ulsterville Avenue in south Belfast, had already pleaded guilty to an offence of riot. The police officer was injured after a concrete block was dropped on her head. She was one of 48 PSNI officers injured during three nights of violence. Judge Tom Burgess told Belfast Crown Court that Costa had intentionally armed himself and throw…

A boy of three has become Britain’s youngest vandal after police caught him damaging cars in a street close to his home, it emerged yesterday. The toddler, who is an astonishing seven years below the age of criminal responsibility, was seen attacking a string of vehicles. But because of his age – a child only becomes responsible for their actions at the age of 10 - the police were powerless to take any action. The disturbing case comes just days after shocking figures revealed that as many as 3,000 criminals, including rapists, robbers and burglars, escaped punishment last year because they are too young to be prosecuted. In the vast majority of cases officers canno…

The speed cameras raking in the most money are to be identified for the first time. Motorists will be able to see previously unavailable figures showing the number of speeding prosecutions and the accident rate at camera sites. In a victory for drivers, the move could spell the end for those cameras that do not save lives. Although ministers do not have the power to make local authorities switch the cameras off, they expect public pressure will force them to dismantle any shown to be merely money-spinners. Until now, councils have been reluctant to reveal which cameras brought in the most revenue from fines, with details having to be prised out of them using Freedom o…

http://www.thisislon...ending-fraud.do with all the cuts you get a lady do things like this to damage the BTP. :D

Follow the link people http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010355/Mobile-phone-boss-Tobias-Baker-gets-driving-ban-160mph-Suffolk-police-chase.html All I can say is that it is one rule for the rich and another for the poor. Makes my blood boil !

http://www.bbc.co.uk...-wales-13843008 if he was that bad and good job that the officer arrested him.

A man determined to see his favourite band play at a sold-out music festival stole a female police officer's uniform before taking the law into his hands. With no ticket to see headlining band Kasabian play at the Isle of Wight festival, Daniel Tredinnick decided to break into a nearby police car and steal a bag containing a policewoman's uniform. He then snuck into the festival - where Kate Moss and friends celebrated her hen night, a court heard yesterday. Once inside, the avid music fan managed to fool both festival-goers and security guards and even began carrying out official duties by breaking up a fight, helping find a missing woman and chatting to senior office…

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/community/community-news/budget_cuts_cambridgeshire_police_helicopter_for_the_chop_1_2817772 I suspect this will have a severe impact on services, both in policing and healthcare. I can see officers requesting the pool helicopter and being refused because it's committed in Luton or somewhere. We will wait and see, I suppose.

Source Clicky It isn't possible to embed the video on here so click the link to see fool walk about. Edit: The sentence is a joke, in my opinion.

More than 150 convicted rapists have gone on to attack again in the last five years. Ministry of Justice statistics revealed last night the shocking extent to which sexual predators are re-offending, many after being freed from prison early. The figures were described as ‘astonishing and alarming’, and prompted calls for tougher sentences for violent sex attackers.Critics demanded better monitoring of dangerous offenders to ensure they cannot repeatedly commit horrendous crimes. The disclosure comes after a storm of protest over Government plans to halve jail terms for rapists and other violent offenders who admit their guilt. Ministers performed a U-turn over t…

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