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Police Spend Almost Half of Time Not Tackling Crime

By on Thursday, April 29th, 2010 | No Comments

According to the Daily Telegraph today “Police spend almost half their time on paperwork, in meetings and drinking tea instead of tackling crime and other incidents, figures show”. CrimeBlogUK view I think this is a rather flippant sensationalist headline that gives the wrong impression of what most hard-working police officers do with their time on [...]

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Forger Produced Fake Visas and Passports for Thousands of Illegal Immigrants

By on Monday, April 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments

A forger cost taxpayers millions of pounds by producing fake visas and passports for up to 15,000 illegal immigrants that fooled Home Office officials. Abdullah Azad, 76, was paid thousands of pounds by immigrants, some of whom were given British citizenship on the back of bogus documents he created. Prosecutors said that those with false [...]

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Man who lied about James Bulger killer on Facebook sentenced

By on Sunday, April 25th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Wayne Dale, 19, from the Isle of Man, became the first person to be prosecuted for making false allegations about the identity and location of the murderer. Dale appeared before the High Bailiff’s Court in Douglas, Isle of Man, where he admitted the “provoking behaviour”. On Facebook, Dale claimed that a colleague at B&Q in [...]

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Police to Publish Blair Peach Report

By on Saturday, April 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Scotland Yard is preparing to publish a report into the death of the anti-racism activist Blair Peach, who was killed more than 30 years ago. Prosecutors have completed a review of the document and passed their findings back to the London force. Peach’s relatives have for many years been campaigning to obtain a copy of [...]

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Prisoner numbers past 85,000 for the first time, more expected

By on Saturday, April 24th, 2010 | No Comments

The prison population has topped 85,000 for the first time with a rise of almost two hundred inmates in a week. Latest figures show that there were 85,076 prisoners in jails in England and Wales. The number of prisoners in jail has jumpedrisen by one thousand in six weeks, an increase driven by the ending [...]

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Graff gemstone thieves ‘threatened to kill woman’

By on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

An armed gang threatened to kill everyone in a jewellery store as they forced staff to hand over stock worth £40 million, a court was told yesterday. An assistant at Graff Diamonds in London thought she was going to die as Aman Kassaye and Craig Calderwood waved guns and ordered everyone to “get down on [...]

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