An ex-Lancashire police officer, (and ex-Magistrate) Paul Brooks, ‘read out’ an email sent to him from Lancashire police in an audio-recorded meeting. The comment has […]
On the 2nd of February 2022, William Salt of the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) made a determination that Bedfordshire police had breached my personal data. […]
A Metropolitan police officer accused of grievous bodily harm after a black man was left paralysed from the chest down has been named after losing a bid to keep his name from the public domain. Imran Mahmood, 35, was charged with grievous bodily harm on 31 March and had sought anonymity from Westminster magistrates court […] […]
A man has died after being hit by a Sussex Police car in Peacehaven. The 27-year old victim, who was on the road, sustained serious injuries after being hit by the marked vehicle near the junction of Dorothy Avenue on the A259. There was a heavy response from the emergency services to the collision which […] […]
The Met Police are launching yet another appeal against a High Court ruling which said the Sarah Everard vigil organisers’ rights were breached when they were told the gathering would be illegal under Covid rules. The vigil was cancelled, but hundreds attended anyway to pay their respects to Sarah, who was abducted, raped, and murdered […] […]
A SERIOUS complaint into Durham Police’s handling of the county’s only unsolved murder in the last 70 years has been made in a family’s bid to clear the “lifetime of public suspicion and abuse” – despite the force confirming an active investigation is still in place 32 years on. In 1990, part-time carer Ann Heron […] […]
A police constable has kept his job despite being found guilty of gross misconduct. A disciplinary hearing heard Southampton-based PC Edward Greevy attended a domestic violence incident in May 2020 where a woman claimed she had been hit by her brother. But when Greevy filed the paperwork he fabricated the answers. He was given a […] […]
A Lincolnshire police constable will face a misconduct hearing next month. PC Claire Riches is accused of breaching standards of professional behaviour. PC Riches is based at Boston Police Station. An accelerated misconduct hearing will be held on May 10. The conduct, if proved, would amount to gross misconduct. The alleged behaviour occurred between September […] […]
A two-day hearing organised by the force found that Police Constable Simon Beech, who was based in Stretford police station, had “abused his position for a sexual purpose” and was guilty of gross misconduct. The former officer had met the women after attending crimes in which the women either reported or were a witness to. […] […]
A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with rape. PC Ireland Murdock is alleged to have carried out the offence on 25 September 2021 in Lambeth, while he was off duty. The officer, who is attached to the Central North Command Unit, was arrested on 11 January 2022. He will appear at Croydon Magistrates’ […] […]
Domestic violence victims were failed and their abusers escaped justice due to Kent Police failings, a damning report has found. The force ‘requires improvement’ across several key areas, which also include how it manages offenders and investigates crimes. Although the force performed well in some aspects of the work it does, according to the HM […] […]
n ex-police officer who “abused his power” and “broke public trust” by pursuing women for sex after meeting them in the course of his duties has been jailed. Oliver Perry-Smith, who was based at Newbury police station with Thames Valley police, has been described as a “sexual predator” who targeted women in vulnerable positions. The […] […]
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