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, 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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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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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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