Police clean up on 'easy' crimes

POLICE are massaging their crime clear-up rates by concentrating on solving minor offences such as cakes being thrown on buses and hair pulling in the school playground.

In some forces such offences, which involve suspects being questioned and warned but not charged, account for up to a third of all crimes solved.

Police chiefs are considering abolishing the practice because it is diverting officers from pursuing more serious crime.

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Outrage as police spend £450m on 'equality and diversity'

Scotland Yard has spent almost £450 million on promoting 'equality and diversity' in the past three years. In the past year alone £187 million - six per cent of the Met budget - went on 'equalities-related expenditure'.

This included recruitment, training and research within minority communities, as well as crime fighting and prevention.
It covered not just race issues, but those of gender, faith, disability, age and sexuality. Since 2003, more than £21million has been spent on interpreters' fees.

However, new figures show the number of race-discrimination claims against officers made by colleagues or the public rose by 24 per cent from 259 in 2003/4 to 320 in 2005/6.

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Stop tracking drug dealers, we've arrested enough already

A police force criticised for its supposed liberal stance on drugs was yesterday accused of ordering officers to stop logging intelligence about drug dealers because they had already hit the annual arrests target.

The HM Inspectorate of Constabulary claimed that two divisions within North Wales Police were "instructed" not to enter the information on the force computer as further arrests would lead to a higher target the following year.

The force is led by Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom, who has been criticised for his crusade against speeding motorists and a relatively liberal attitude to drug policy. He has called for some drugs to be legalised.

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Richard Brunstrom is on record for having compared the ABD (Association of British Drivers) to the BNP (British National Party). The ABD have an excellent website dedicated solely to The Chief Constable of Contoversy .

Police anger over ban on arrests during Ramadan

Manchester Police have been told not to arrest Muslims at prayer times during the holy month of Ramadan. The order is said to have angered a number of officers in the Greater Manchester force.

An internal email listing prayer times has been sent to officers who have been asked not to execute arrest warrants during prayer times for reasons of religious sensitivity.

No doubt Manchester Police will continue to arrest Christians during the Christmas period!

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Arrested for ski-mask protest

JAMES Scott took to the streets of Ipswich to support Jack Straw's stance over the removal of veils only to end up arrested for wearing a ski mask.

Today, the 40-year-old was still declining to remove his own headwear as he told how he was nicked for backing the leader of the House of Commons.Mr Scott said he only began his petition because he agreed with Mr Straw's comments that the niqab veil worn by Muslim women can be divisive.

He said: “I was angry when people starting jumping on the bandwagon and criticising Jack Straw - I think he's right.

Mr Scott was wearing the ski-mask and a T-shirt with the slogan 'I'm with Jack' and 'face-to-face; nothing to hide' when he was arrested on Monday.

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‘You’re dead’ phone threat but police to busy to investigate

A man whose 12-year-old daughter has been receiving death threats has been told by Barnet police they are too busy to investigate the matter.

Alan Hedges, 41, of Kings Drive, Edgware, said his daughter Jessica received a barrage of 20 abusive calls within days, one of which simply told her, you're dead'.

The girl's phone had been called between Wednesday and Saturday morning last week, with many of the calls made either during the school day, throughout the night and even once while her dad was in Colindale police station reporting the crime.

Mr Hedges said: "I asked him why he was phoning my daughter but he just told me to f*** off and called me a bloody liar.

"He phoned 20 times, he even told my daughter that she was going to die. It's not a wrong number - if you call a few times, okay, but 20 times - that's no mistake."

Mr Hedges said he was angered by the police's lack of concern, adding: "The police said they had sent me a letter about it - that's a load of rubbish, they didn't send me anything. That was last Thursday, and then they said they would be in contact, and they weren't.

"I have the telephone number here of the perpetrator, but they haven't contacted him either, they say they are busy.

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Gay police group's "anti-Christian" advert rapped.

The Gay Police Association (GPA) has been reprimanded for an advert which implied Christians were responsible for a huge rise in violent attacks on homosexuals.

The advert, placed in The Independent under the banner "in the name of the father" showed a Bible and a pool of blood.

It was a one-off, used to back up the GPA's claim that the association had recorded a 74 percent increase in homophobic incidents, where the sole or primary motivating factor was the religious belief of the perpetrator.

The association said the accompanying text made clear Christians were not the only group accused, in fact a quarter of the alleged incidents were provoked by Muslims, it said.

The GPA's advert was also found to have been untruthful in its claim that calls about homophobic incidents had increased by 74 percent, and it was criticised for not being able to back up its statement with evidence.

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Pensioners arrested for armed robbery

COPS arrested two pensioners for ARMED ROBBERY after one of them jokingly told foreign poachers they would be shot.



World War II hero Geoff Mogg, 90, was fishing with best pal Alan Cox, 65, on a private stretch of the River Teifi in Pembrokeshire when Alan spotted younger anglers, believed to be Spanish.

The retired tree surgeon asked them if they had the right to fish there. But they did not understand. He said: “If I were you I’d go because if you’re caught without permission you’ll get shot.”

The two pals were arrested and quizzed for two hours. Geoff, who owns shotguns which were locked away at the time, has had them confiscated and faces losing his licence.

Alan said: “The police asked if I’ve held someone up at gunpoint for fish. It is spiteful, trouble-making nonsense. Geoff is distraught.”

Police confirmed the two had been arrested but refused to comment further.

Stick 'em up...

Police to muzzle dog squads for fear of being sued

Instead they'll be taught to head-butt.

Police dogs are being muzzled to stop them biting and injuring suspected criminals, it emerged yesterday.

Officers say the toothless tactic provides a safer way to tackle unco-operative offenders, and it may soon be adopted by dog squads across the country.

But critics say it is another example of political correctness gone mad - putting the rights and safety of criminals before cutting crime and protecting the public.

Rather than biting suspects, the dogs have instead been trained to disable their targets by leaping at them and delivering a flying 'head-butt'.

Sink your teeth into this.

Police want spy planes to patrol troubled estates.

First Community Support Officers, now spy planes. Another example of 'cheap policing'.

Police chiefs are considering using unmanned surveillance drones to hover over problem estates as part of plans for Britain's first "yob squad" to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Supt John Myles, the joint head of the task force, said: "It's a cheap way of doing aerial surveillance, it's a cheap way of doing intelligence and evidence gathering. Put over an anti-social behaviour hot-spot, it is quite a significant percentage cheaper than the force helicopter."

"Wizzy", 17, grinned as he admitted he didn't rate the new squad's chances.

"It's a waste of time. Everyone round here loves getting chased by the police. The only way to stop it is having someone in the road all day."

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So there you have it from the horse's mouth. The only way to tackle yob culture is to have more bobbies on the beat.

Not that the government will take a blind bit of notice!

Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone!

Mum’s anger over daughter’s arrest.

A TEENAGE girl was arrested after allegedly making racist remarks to Asian students.

Codie Stott, 14, was arrested after refusing to take part in a science tutorial with five students at Harrop Fold High School because she claimed they didn’t speak English.

After questioning by police she was released without charge but the school say they are still investigating the matter internally.

Her furious mother Nicola, 37, of Grosvenor Drive, Walkden has defended her daughter’s stance.

She said: "Codie was not being racist. All that happened was that she was in a science lesson and the teacher split them up into discussion groups."

"Codie asked to be taken out of her group because the other five students were Asians and four didn’t speak English so there was no point in her being with them.

"When she pointed this out to the teacher she was accused of being racist and told to go to the isolation unit.

As she left the classroom she was stopped by a teacher patrolling the corridor and repeated her remark. He then made a complaint to the headteacher and the matter was referred to the community police officer based at the school.

"Codie was taken to the police station and kept in custody for over six hours while they questioned her.

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Schoolgirl arrested for refusing to study with non-English pupils

Police assumed man was alive

POLICE officers assumed a man, who later died after collapsing in his cell, was alive because they could hear him ‘snoring’.

The inquest into Philip Orton, of Westway, Little Hulton, who died in police custody, has heard officers did not open his cell door once to check on him.

A police surgeon told custody staff the 40-year-old should have been monitored every 30 minutes at Eccles police station following his arrest in connection with reports of a stabbing in January 2003.

A jury inquest in Bolton was told that because he was drunk, the checks should have involved him being physically roused to get a response but this did not happen.

The inquest has also heard that custody records reported Mr Orton had been visited in his cell six times over a three-hour period before he was found collapsed yet images taken from a CCTV camera monitoring the cell showed the door had only been approached once - when another custody suite officer went to offer him breakfast.

Mr Orton was pronounced dead in hospital on January 4, 2003.

In interview, Sgt Rees agreed that custody record reports said Mr Orton had been roused at 8.18am, 8,52am and 9.18am but the jury was told CCTV images showed no one near his cell at those times.

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In other words the police lied to cover up their incompetance which cost a man his life.

Gran arrested

Any excuse to put our DNA on their database...

A Grandmother was arrested, fingerprinted and forced to provide a DNA sample - after being accused of stealing a football that had landed in her garden.

Angela Hickling says she was taken to police head- quarters at Ripley after an officer called at her home and told her husband: "I've come to arrest your wife."She was arrested on suspicion of theft after neighbour Christopher Salisbury reported her for stealing his son's ball.

Despite telling police she had looked for the ball but could not find it, officers searched her Heanor home and the surrounding land.The 56-year-old gran's ordeal continued at the police station, where she was questioned for 90 minutes before being forced to provide fingerprints and a DNA test before she was released.

A few days later, police told her they were dropping the case because of a lack of evidence.

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Police under fire for snubbing five 999 calls at terrified school

An inquiry has been ordered after police failed to respond to five 999 calls from a primary school reporting an armed intruder.

The man broke into the school brandishing a lump of wood and threatened staff by telling them 'you're dead'.
School had finished for the day, but there were still children inside and frantic staff rang 999 on five occasions over a 50-minute period. Eventually the man left of his own accord, but officers never turned up to investigate.

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WHY POLICE ARE AFRAID TO TACKLE ASIAN CRIME

The torture and race-murder of 15 year old Glasgow teenager Kriss Donald on 16 March 2004, was one of the most horrific crimes ever to have occured in mainland Britain, in living memory. However, unless you live in Glasgow you have probably never even heard of Kriss Donald.

The national UK media have kept it quiet because it doesn't "fit" into their framework where the only race attacks we are ever meant to hear about and know about are white-on-black.

At the same time, Strathclyde Police have come under the spotlight for their failure to police the Asian gangs in Pollokshields properly because of an unprofessional fear of being called "racist".

"Make no mistake: they use the race card without mercy and in today's climate even an unsubstantiated complaint can damage an officer's career."

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Anger Over Muslim PC's Embassy Move

Met chief Sir Ian Blair has ordered an urgent review after a Muslim police officer was excused from guarding the Israeli Embassy in London on moral grounds. PC Alexander Omar Basha reportedly asked for special dispensation because of his objection to Israel's bombing of Lebanon. But the Association of Muslim Police Officers says it was a "welfare issue" - the officer had Middle Eastern relatives and felt unsafe at the embassy.

The decision to grant his request for another assignment has been strongly criticised.

Former Flying Squad commander John O'Connor told the Sun: "This is the beginning of the end for British policing.

"When you join the police, you do so to provide a service to the public. If you cannot perform those duties, you leave."

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PC strips off uniform to become Mr Gay UK

A policeman has been crowned Mr Gay UK after parading in his uniform and stripping in his underwear to secure the title.

PC Mark Carter, 23, who had the full backing of West Yorkshire Police, said he was "over the moon" after picking up the award, billed as the male equivalent of Miss Great Britain.

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Banned: Police ordered to stop calling young tearaways 'yobs'

They are the menacing youths who hang about in gangs, causing trouble. For decades they have been known as "yobs". It has been rare for anybody to have a good word to say about them.

But now, it seems, police officers are going to have to find a more "polite" way to describe the nation's troublemakers, because Scotland Yard has banned its officers from using the word "yob", for fear that it might alienate young people. The edict has the backing of Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, and will gird his reputation as "the PC pc".

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