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Enter the water cannon:

May 24 2013 11:26 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Two years on from the riots that scarred Britain, hundreds of police are training at a secret base with a fearsome new deterrent

Source: Daily Mail

Source URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324596/Enter-water-cannon-Two-years-riots-scarred-Britain-hundreds-police-training-secret-base-fearsome-new-deterrent.html

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Forced to declare friendships with journalists

May 21 2013 10:25 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Police officers will be forced to name any friends who work in the media, or else face the sack, under new guidelines published on Monday.

Source: Daily Telegraph

Source URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10070053/Police-to-be-forced-to-declare-friendships-with-journalists.html

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Arrest anonymity not simple

May 17 2013 09:08 AM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

There is no simple answer on the issue of whether anonymity should be granted to suspects who are arrested but not yet charged, David Cameron has said

Source: Bbc

Source URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22549866

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May: Life Should Mean Life For Police Killers

May 15 2013 12:09 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Police killers will face whole-life jail terms under changes to the current law, the Home Secretary has announced.

Source: Sky News!

Source URL: http://news.sky.com/story/1091000/may-life-should-mean-life-for-police-killers

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£20,000 compensation

May 10 2013 07:29 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

South Wales Police pay £20,000 compensation after pursuit crash

Source: Bbc

Source URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22475798

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Gary McCourt sentence 'scandalous'

May 03 2013 06:53 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

A motorist who caused the death of a cyclist has been banned from driving for five years.

Source: Bbc

Source URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-22397918

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Misconduct hearing online!

May 01 2013 12:04 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

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Source: Met

Source URL: http://content.met.police.uk/Site/professionalstandards

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Winsor: Police technology 'must get better...

Apr 30 2013 10:55 AM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary says forces must improve their use of IT and technology in his first public speech since assuming the role.

Source: Police Oracle

Source URL: http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Police+IT+and+Technology/2013/Apr/30/Winsor-Police-technology-must-get-better_64383.html

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TOP Officer PC Mark Walsh

Apr 28 2013 12:50 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

A Hampshire PC hopes to set up youth 'peer courts'

Source: Bbc

Source URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-21522479

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R.I.P. Andrew Pimlott

Apr 28 2013 11:41 AM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Man dies after taser deployment

Source: Police Oracle

Source URL: http://www.policeoracle.com/news/IPCC/2013/Apr/26/Man-dies-after-taser-deployment_64320.html

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Britain is becoming a SAFER place!

Apr 24 2013 09:06 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

How Britain is becoming a SAFER place to live: Rate of murders and violent crime falling faster than anywhere in Western Europe

Source: Daily Mail

Source URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313942/UK-Peace-Index-Rate-murders-violent-crime-falling-faster-Western-Europe.html

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Assaults cost Welsh police 1,700 days off

Apr 23 2013 12:50 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

More needs to be done by prosecutors to protect police officers on duty from attack, say two senior politicians from across the political divide.

Source: Bbc

Source URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22230800

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Metropolitan police still institutionally racist

Apr 23 2013 12:15 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Metropolitan police still institutionally racist, say black and Asian officers.
Metropolitan Black Police Association says the force has failed to change racist mindset behind Stephen Lawrence failures

Source: The Guardian

Source URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/21/metropolitan-police-institutionally-racist-black

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The dangers of single crewed!

Apr 20 2013 12:03 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Force defends its staffing levels after a man is jailed for pummelling an officer with his own CS Spray canister outside a pub.

Source: Police Oracle

Source URL: http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Man-Jailed-For-Single-Crewed-Officer-GBH_63830.html

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Officer swaps his uniform for giant donkey costume

Apr 20 2013 10:13 AM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Volunteer police officer swaps his uniform for giant donkey costume in this year’s London Marathon

Source: Met

Source URL: http://content.met.police.uk/News/Volunteer-police-officer-swaps-his-uniform-for-giant-donkey-costume-in-this-years-London-Marathon/1400016761802/1257246745756?scope_id=1257246763951

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Police compensation

Apr 18 2013 12:46 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Home Secretary Theresa May has said she wants to know if the case of a Norfolk police officer suing a garage owner was "symptomatic" of a claims culture among officers.

Source: Bbc

Source URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22200834

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Drug-use rooms

Apr 18 2013 12:28 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Brighton considers drug-use rooms in bid to reduce death

Source: Bbc

Source URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22188476

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Newcastle: Arrests After Sunderland Match

Apr 15 2013 09:29 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Football is scarred by violence for two days in a row as Newcastle fans clash with police after their defeat by Sunderland.

Source: Sky News

Source URL: http://news.sky.com/story/1078130/newcastle-arrests-after-sunderland-match

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Boston Marathon explosions

Apr 15 2013 09:17 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Boston Marathon explosions: two dead, 64 injured as 'bombs' hit race finish line

Source: Daily Telegraph

Source URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9996332/Boston-Marathon-explosions-two-dead-64-injured-as-bombs-hit-race-finish-line.html

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'Positive Tickets'

Apr 10 2013 01:07 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

A neighbourhood sergeant has his team issuing youths tickets for doing things right.

Source: Police Oracle

Source URL: http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Children+and+Young+People/2013/Apr/10/Frontline-Tips-Giving-Youths-Positive-Tickets_62888.html

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PC Dibell 'Prevented Shooting Carnage'...

Apr 09 2013 05:12 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Inquest hears that police constable was shot dead trying to wrestle a gun from a man who was firing at two people.

Source: Police Oracle

Source URL: http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Crime/2013/Apr/09/PC-Dibell-Prevented-Shooting-Carnage---Coroner_63068.html

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'Secret law'

Apr 07 2013 11:49 AM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Storm as police chiefs ban public from knowing who they arrest: Shock new blanket ban in the wake of Leveson report angers civil liberty groups who condemn threat to democracy

Under new ACPO guidance forces to be banned from naming suspects
The legal risk of incorrect identification will stop the media naming suspects
The police plan for 'secret arrests' is opposed by the Law Commission

Source: Daily Mail

Source URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305177/Secret-law-storm-police-chiefs-ban-public-knowing-arrest-Shock-new-blanket-ban-wake-Leveson-report-angers-civil-liberty-groups-condemn-threat-democracy.html

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The future of British policing?

Apr 06 2013 11:17 PM | kenworthy in Latest News Articles

Is this foul-mouthed, self-obsessed Twitter teen really the future of British policing? Youth crime tsar's sex and drug rants

Paris Brown, 17, boasted about her sex life, drug taking and drinking in a series of tweets
In one she wrote: 'I really wanna make a batch of hash brownies'
And she also said: 'Everyone on Made in Chelsea looks like a f****** fag'
She was appointed to change perceptions of young people who she said are mostly 'lovely'
Keith Vaz MP says she must be removed from her £15,000 taxpayer-funded post immediately
She tells Mail on Sunday: 'I am not a racist or a sexist, but I have been guilty of showing off in the past'

Source: Daily Mail

Source URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305118/Is-foul-mouthed-self-obsessed-Twitter-teen-really-future-British-policing-Youth-crime-tsars-sex-drug-rants.html

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