POLICE Scotland has opened a new international academy to help develop other forces around the world at its headquarters in Fife. Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said the role of a police officer should be as a “guardian, not a warrior” as he opened the facility at Tulliallan. The academy follows previous projects Police Scotland has […] […]
Stop and search powers for police are set to be permanently enhanced under Boris Johnson’s new strategy to tackle crime. The Prime Minister will use his first day after leaving self-isolation following a positive coronavirus contact to detail his new Beating Crime Plan, much of which was trailed in the media over the weekend. It […] […]
A former Warwickshire Police officer has insisted to a jury that he did not have a sexual relationship with a woman whose case he was working on as a staff investigator with the force. Alan Butler, 64, who lives in the Camp Hill area of Nuneaton, has pleaded not guilty at Warwick Crown Court to […] […]
After a civil claim was brought against Mr Ponting by the now ex-Chief Constable of Lancashire police (Andy Rhodes, the claimant), Mr Ponting notified the […]
A West Yorkshire Police officer who allegedly stole 11 bottles of wine and a sandwich from Aldi and Tesco Express is to face a misconduct hearing. Detective Constable Sean Donoghue is alleged to have taken two bottles of wine and hidden them in his backpack when he visited an Aldi store in Shipley on May […] […]
Wayne Couzens has reportedly stopped eating in jail and is being watched around the clock after “plunging into depression” over his crimes, it has been reported. The former Metropolitan Police officer, 48, pleaded guilty to the murder and rape of marketing executive Sarah Everard this month. He is currently in Belmarsh prison but is barely […] […]
It is two years since iOPS was launched, prompting an extraordinary flood of scared and angry police officers to blow the whistle. As the new Chief Constable weighs up whether to ditch the part that ‘doesn’t work’, the scale of its failures are still emerging On July 9, 2019, a ‘transformational’ £29m new computer system […] […]
Barbara O’Shea, 58, also fraudulently took out one loan, and tried to take out a second, in the name of another neighbour and used the police computer system to search his name, a court heard. A member of Greater Manchester Police staff who conned her neighbour into lending her thousands of pounds has been told […] […]
A man who was reportedly behaving “erratically” while carrying a knife and then handcuffed by police officers has died, Scotland Yard said. The Metropolitan Police said that officers were called to a home in James Gardens in Wood Green, north London, at around 8.10pm on Thursday following concerns for the welfare of a male occupant. […] […]
The family of Matthew Mackell have said they are “relieved” after positive talks with Kent Police. Matthew, aged 17, was found dead in Dunorlan Park in Tunbridge Wells. in the early hours of May 7 last year where he was found hanging at An inquest into the schoolboy’s death revealed he had made phone calls […] […]
A police officer in a feud with his Ilford neighbours told an Asian woman to “go back to [her] village” and called the couple “rodents”. A misconduct hearing last week concluded former police constable Valmeekee Singh would have been sacked for his behaviour if he was not already dismissed for unrelated reasons a month earlier. […] […]
An officer with Devon and Cornwall Police has been dismissed without notice for gross misconduct. PC Christopher Woodman faced allegations that on September 24, 2019 he breached the standards appropriate to the conduct of a police officer in respect of ‘honesty and integrity’, ‘discreditable conduct’ and ‘duties and responsibilities’. It had been alleged that the […] […]
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