A serving Met Police officer is under investigation after allegations of antisemitic posts on social media.The officer was said to have joined the force in 2016, but had posted on Twitter since 2012 under a different name. Most of the tweets from the account were mundane, but some were insulting to Jews, reported the Mail […] […]
A FEMALE police officer, hailed as a hero for tackling anti-lockdown protesters last year, is under investigation for allegedly posting a series of racist tweets. Ruby Begum mocked the 9/11 terror attacks and called for a retribution for Israel during its conflict with Palestine in 2014. “Must be stupid if you think I’m gonna do 2 […] […]
A POLICE officer who abused his position to exploit a vulnerable drug addict has been jailed. Mark Goddard (36) will spend half his two year sentence in jail and the rest under supervised licence. At an earlier hearing, father-of-two Goddard and whose address was given as c/o Lisburn PSNI station, entered guilty pleas to two […] […]
A murder inquiry detective has told a court he failed to follow correct procedure by letting a witness sign blank pages of their statement but denied forging any of the signatures. Det Con Robert Ferrow, 50, took the statement on the day Lucy-Anne Rushton was killed at her home in Andover, Hampshire, in 2019. He […] […]
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is appealing for witnesses following the stop and search of a black boy, 16, in Greenwich, south-east London. The incident took place at 10.50pm on September 4 2020 when officers from the Metropolitan Police Service were responding to reports of a serious incident on Armitage Road. Officers attended […] […]
Scotland’s new chief prosecutor wrote an explosive report demanding police face charges over the death of Sheku Bayoh. The Sunday Mail can reveal Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain signed off a Victim’s Right to Review (VRR) on behalf of the tragic dad’s family after her predecessor James Wolffe failed to act. The document – penned in […] […]
A chief constable has told her officers they have “let down” murder victims and their families. Rachel Swann, who took charge of Derbyshire Police last year, said in a video message to staff that “simple errors” had been made. She added the force was not performing well with “dealing with vulnerability” and it was “not […] […]
A police officer has appeared in court accused of sexual assault and misconduct in a public office. Mohammed Adnan Ali, 35, a constable with Greater Manchester Police, appeared at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. The court heard the officer, who previously ran the Trafford branch of the Volunteer Police Cadets, was facing 21 charges, including […] […]
Too many fraud victims still receive a “poor service” from police and are being denied justice, according to a watchdog. People are more likely to be a victim of fraud than any other crime and the problem has become worse during the coronavirus pandemic, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) […] […]
Former sergeant Stephen Kirkpatrick, 36, was sentenced at Guildford Crown Court on Friday (July 30). Kirkpatrick was charged following an allegation that he had an inappropriate relationship with a victim of domestic abuse in a case he was investigating. Surrey Police referred the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct in January 2020 after […] […]
A former North Yorkshire Police officer is facing a misconduct hearing after allegedly writing posts on social media considered to be abusive, offensive or inappropriate. David France is said to have sent a total of 2,719 tweets from his personal Twitter handle between October 10 in 2017 and November 5 in 2019 whilst a serving […] […]
The delivery man was held by officers in County Durham, even after they witnessed him leaving milk on a customer’s doorstep, according to his boss. A milkman was arrested on suspicion of being a burglar despite showing police pints of milk and empties in the back of his van, his employer said. The delivery man […] […]
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