A police community support officer hired because she was a lesbian has been jailed after telling a friend to flee town when detectives were looking for her. Lisa Stapley, 39, was recruited by North Wales Police under a positive discrimination programme because of her sexuality but recruiters failed to spot that she had an unusual [...]
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Apr 2012
PCSO jailed for telling suspect to flee police hunt
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Apr 2012
Beat bobbies to be replaced by ‘plastic police’
April 13, 2012 By 2 Comments
A police force has come under fire over plans to take PCs off the streets and replace them with community support officers in a move that would spell the end for the “bobbie on the beat”. Police Community Support Officers are to become the “first line of contact” for members of the public and rebranded [...]
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Apr 2012
A judge has praised police for their “dogged pursuit” of an Estonian gang who took low-cost flights to Britain to carry out armed robberies on jewellers. The jailing of Janno Heinola, 33, for nine years ended a seven-year operation in which eight men have been locked up for a total of 82 years. West Yorkshire [...]
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Apr 2012
Publication of Motorman files could go ahead
April 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Database of Fleet Street deals with investigator may be as damaging as hacking scandal. The full details of the 2003 “Operation Motorman” inquiry into Fleet Street’s widespread use of a private investigator could be published following a request from the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham. In a proactive move that would sideline the current restrictions of [...]
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Apr 2012
Crime boss held in Amsterdam
April 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
One of Britain’s most wanted crime bosses has been captured in the Netherlands. Kirk Bradley, who had been on the run since fleeing a Manchester prison van in July, was arrested with his uncle in Amsterdam on Wednesday, the Serious Organised Crime Agency said. He is expected to be returned to the UK to serve [...]
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Apr 2012
Calls for ‘dead laws’ to be repealed
April 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
More than 800 dead laws, some of which date back to the 14th century, should be swept away in a bid to clear up the statute book, a report said today. The oldest, from around 1322, regulated how animals should be taken to pay the king’s debts, including details on how they should be fed, [...]
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Apr 2012
Businessman murdered by wife and daughter for cash
April 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The daughter of a retired businessman who disappeared without trace had made detailed notes describing how she had killed a man and hidden the body in a car, it emerged yesterday. Lynette Banfield, 40, and her mother Shirley, 64, were both jailed for life after a jury convicted them of murdering Donald Banfield, 63. The [...]
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Mar 2012
Paedophiles can “groom” children for sex through the internet in as little as eight minutes, a British study has concluded. In a new warning for parents, criminologists discovered that online predators are exploiting an array of techniques to “break the ice” with children aged as young as 12. The Middlesex University, London, study found that [...]
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Mar 2012
A cash-strapped police force are recruiting five spin doctors – at a cost of £140,500 – whilst axing 500 front line officers. Sussex Police say they need to spend the money on the posts within the press office to maintain their ‘popular website’, teach officers to use Twitter and sell the idea of cuts to [...]
