2016-03-19 18:53
More than £150million is paid to police officers every year for what Paul McKeever, the chairman of the Police Federation, describes as “doing your duty.”Five officers at N… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
Sheila Martin, a 70 year old widow living in Oldbury, has been warned that she could be prosecuted and face a fine of £2,500, plus costs, for smoking a cigarette at a bus stop.While wa… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Peter Cox, 49, had 50,000 volts fired into his groin by a police officer in Bridgewater on the 13th of July, 2010.Mr Cox was on his way to do some landscaping work at the home of a friend wh… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
A businessman was arrested at home in front of his wife and young son over an email which council officials deemed ‘offensive’ to gipsies – but which he had not even writte… Read More
2010-01-24 14:56
The number of stop-and-searches under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act of 2000 has trebled in a year, with police facing protests that they have targeted tourists, photographers and trainspot… Read More
2010-01-24 14:23
A fresh bid to curb wide-ranging powers for officials to enter private homes was launched in the Lords yesterday.Spearheading the move, Tory Lord Selsdon said he had unearthed about 1,200 po… Read More
2010-01-24 13:47
This is Peter Vaughan.Recognise him? Probably not.He's the new Chief Constable of South Wales police.He believes that he is so important, that he is unable to walk round a supermarket.Speaki… Read More
2010-01-24 13:24
Hans Blix, who has not been called to give evidence to Sir John Chilcot's inquiry, said his team had grown suspicious of the quality of intelligence pointing to Saddam Hussein having WMDs.Th… Read More
2010-01-24 13:14
Thanks to New Labour, it is now illegal to swim in the wreck of the Titanic or to sell game birds killed on a Sunday or Christmas Day – eventualities overlooked by previous governments… Read More
2010-01-24 13:04
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the routine covert monitoring of the public, in a significant expansion of covert state… Read More
2009-07-03 14:14
A report by internet security consultancy Cryptohippe has ranked the UK as being equally as repressive as Russia, in terms of having become an Electronic Police State.This result emerges fro… Read More
2009-06-18 16:19
Police in Sefton have been busy lately, harassing hundreds of innocent people under 'Operation Beekman'.This 'operation', is the latest idea from Chief Supt Ian Pilling of Merseyside Police… Read More
2009-06-18 16:00
Two men were ‘handcuffed, punched and stripped’ by Merseyside Police’s Matrix team.Andy Jones, 20, and Anthony Spencer, 21, believe pressure on officers to stop a string of… Read More
2009-06-18 15:45
A police chief has been forced to return 87 computer hard drives to an expert witness.Colin Port, Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset, had been facing contempt of court charges for delaying… Read More
2009-06-18 15:27
White people are being unjustifiably stopped and searched to provide racial balance in police statistics, the antiterrorism watchdog said yesterday.Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC, described the… Read More
2009-06-13 10:20
A former Strathclyde police officer who claimed he was a "Black Magic" high priest has been convicted of sexually abusing three children in East Dunbartonshire.John McFadden, 42, from Bearsd… Read More
2009-06-13 10:09
A police officer was jailed for a year after lying to his wife, children, and work colleagues about having cancer.Michael Matts, 34, was described as a 'conniving cheat' for telling his rela… Read More
2009-06-13 09:51
A man who accidentally dropped a £10 note in an Ayr street was given a £50 fine for littering.Stewart Smith says he was at first grateful when police pointed to his dropped tenne… Read More
2009-06-12 19:09
A Metropolitan police sergeant who was filmed assaulting a female protester at the G20 protests is under investigation for allegedly assaulting a second woman.The sergeant, a member of the M… Read More
2009-06-12 18:55
Residents of Walthamstow have been given a choice by police : Surrender your DNA to us, or face an investigation.Police have decreed that residents of nearly 10,000 homes in Walthamstow will… Read More
2009-02-26 16:33
A police officer was arrested today by detectives investigating a body-building drug supply racket.The 26-year-old Metropolitan police constable was held after a series of early morning raid… Read More
2009-02-26 16:05
Scotland's second-biggest police force failed to follow up properly a "significant" number of complaints against its officers, including accusations of criminal behaviour, instead filing the… Read More
2009-02-26 15:56
An Essex Police officer has been arrested in connection with a night of football violence.On May 14 last year, rioting broke out in Manchester where 150,000 Rangers fans had arrived to watch… Read More
2009-02-26 15:39
A householder who tried to report a burglary was turned away – because police were playing poker.Instead, Graham Hall was handed a fridge magnet bearing the force’s non-emergency… Read More
2008-11-10 13:56
Paramedics were called to a pub to treat a man who had been stunned by a taser gun by armed police during a 'raid'.It is believed that dozens of police officers raided the Romany pub, in Col… Read More
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