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Britain to get new FBI-style police force to tackle organised crime

By on Sunday, July 25th, 2010 | 1 Comment

The government are set  to replace the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) with a new ‘FBI-style’ police force named National Crime Agency (NCA). How very amusing; the previous government introduced SOCA to replace the National Crime Squad (NCS).  Nice work Theresa May! You have just reinvented the wheel. The Government has drawn up plans to [...]

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The £2m traffic camera which has snared 16,123 drivers in three months

By on Sunday, July 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Britain’s most profitable traffic camera has raked in almost £2 million in just three months after catching out motorists confused by a diversion. The single camera is earning a staggering £150,000-a-week from unwitting drivers who stray into a street filled with temporary bus and taxi lanes. The camera earns as much in a week as England [...]

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Free the police and save billions

By on Sunday, July 25th, 2010 | 1 Comment

David Copperfield, a former Pc now serving in Canada, explains why his new force is so much better – and cheaper – for the public. The prophets of doom say Home Office cuts will hand Britain’s streets to criminals: 60,000 police jobs could go, says the BBC; the Association of Chief Police Officers thinks 20,000 [...]

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Jon Venables posed as paedophile mother online

By on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | 1 Comment

Jon Venables, one of James Bulger’s killers, posed online as a mother of an eight-year-old girl offering to sell her daughter for sex, the Old Bailey has heard. The court heard how the 27-year-old contacted convicted paedophile Leslie Blanchard from Chelmsford posing as a 35-year-old mother called Dawn, who claimed to abuse her eight-year-old daughter. [...]

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Police spend more time on holiday than at work, inspectors reveal

By on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Front-line police officers are spending more time off work than on duty, a startling report reveals today. Antiquated shift patterns, rest days and holiday mean some are spending up to 20 days more a year at home than catching criminals, the police inspectorate found. Inspectors also discovered that more uniformed police are on duty on [...]

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Raoul Moat Shoots Himself, Now Follows A Witch-Hunt

By on Monday, July 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Experience tells me that, after an event such as the Raoul Moat manhunt, there will always be certain quarters of our society that will search for someone to blame over the whole tragic affair. Moreover, those same people will always lose sight of what, or more specifically, WHO brought the whole situation about. Raoul Moat [...]

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