A website dedicated to a murder investigation has been set up by Lincolnshire police. Alan Wood, 50, was bound and tortured in his home in Lound near Bourne in October 2009. Detectives have said, aside from the theft of a few hundred pounds, the motive for the killing remained a mystery. They said the site, [...]
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Mar 2012
Alan Wood murder police set up case website
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Mar 2012
Shooting suspect besieged by police in Toulouse
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French police officers have exchanged gunfire and are negotiating with a man who claims connections to al-Qa’ida and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in three attacks. French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said three police officers have been injured in the raid on a house in the southern city of Toulouse. [...]
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Mar 2012
Police officers to be made redundant for the first time
March 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Police officers could be made redundant for the first time, in a radical reform of the service’s culture now being considered by ministers, according to The Daily Telegraph today. There is talk of ending the ‘job for life’ culture that exists in the police service – a ‘festering scab’ that successive governments have been picking [...]
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Mar 2012
The fallout of the phone-hacking scandal could increase the culture of secrecy at Scotland Yard because of potential whistleblowers being prevented from speaking to the Press, the Leveson Inquiry has been told. Sandra Laville, crime correspondent for the Guardian newspaper, said an “over-reaction” to the crisis had led to a clampdown on all but the [...]
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Mar 2012
Wealthy businessman Shaun Dykes has been jailed for using his own girlfriend as a ”honey trap” to blackmail a company director following an illicit affair. Dykes, 49, demanded £20,000 from the victim in exchange for retaining damning photographs of him cavorting with Suzanne Norbury during a string of sexual encounters. The married victim, 37, had [...]
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Mar 2012
A force for good? the rise of private police
March 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
Constabularies are paying firms billions to run services for them – when many of those companies employ their old colleagues. Private policing is a boom industry. Forces around the country are seeking to slash costs in the face of 20 per cent budget cuts demanded by Government, and outsourcing to the private sector is the [...]
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Mar 2012
British lock manufacturer ERA has stepped forward to offer public reassurance in light of a household security issue spreading across the UK. The issue was raised in a recent edition of BBC TV Yorkshire’s Inside Out consumer programme and repeated in several national TV and radio broadcasts. The programme discussed the ease with which criminals [...]
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Mar 2012
Three men have been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery after police shot dead a man in a village car park. Anthony Grainger, from Bolton, died of a single gunshot wound to the chest after the car he was in was stopped in the village of Culcheth, Cheshire, on Saturday evening in what police described [...]
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Mar 2012
Private companies could soon be responsible for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and detaining suspects under a scheme proposed by two of the countries largest police forces. West Midlands Police and Surrey have invited bids from private security companies to take over delivery of a wide range of services currently carried out by police officers. The [...]
