mikeh2000

Depending on the job you don't have to have your blue lights on when responding to a call, as having them on may get the offenders attention who will then have time to make off.
The story says that the number of officers caught is exempt from public documents, it then goes on to say that any police drivers who could not justify speeding at the time were dealt with like another person would be.
Why the figures are exempt I don't know, but could you imagine the uproar from certain members of the press if the force said 5000 officers were caught speeding, but only 10 were prosecuted? Certain papers would not be interested in the fact that the 4900 were justified in speeding, after putting their own 'spin' on it, they'd probably say less than 1% of officers caught speeding are prosecuted to make it a good headline.
It's probably difficult to collate all the information on how many are speeding, for what reason, and if its justified, and getting staff to run around and collate the info needed takes time, and time is money, which in this climate, forces are unwilling to do if they don't have to.

There's no way of answering those questions without knowing what he said in interview, whats said in the statement etc as there could be so many variables. The only person who could possibly answer them before court is a solicitor maybe, but even then what happens at court is anybodies guess.

Throwing the sauce, as well as the slap are enough for common assault on their own, so although he denied slapping her, as he's admitted to throwing the sauce, that's probably why he's been charged and off to court. As its classed as domestic violence then even if the victim does change their mind, the case will still go ahead, even if it is against the victims wishes.

Where I used to work our local MH hospital used to let people out for smoke breaks on 'trust' on their own, then when they didn't come back in and weren't in the grounds, would report them as missing. We used to get about 5 a week on average, the hospital though didn't count them as missing if they were eventually found, so there official figures stated they only had 1 missing person a year.

Section 17 of PACE doesn't come under any of the above case law, and I've never left any paperwork re it as our forms don't cover section 17.