Policeman buys family food instead of arresting them for shoplifting
A US police officer who was called out to arrest a family suspected of shoplifting instead bought them some food so they could have a decent Christmas dinner. Officer Matt Lima was called to a food store in Somerset, Massachusetts, last month, a police statement said . Two women were reported not Continue Reading
Emergency Services News Roundup
Emergency Services News Source: Emergency Service News Blog Man Jailed After Setting Fire To Ex-Army Devon & Cornwall Police Officer by John Johnson A man who doused two police officers in petrol before setting one of them on fire in Newquay has been jailed for ten-and-a-half years. Blagovest Hadjigueorguiev left army Continue Reading
Peaceful Protest – ‘Domestic Extremism’?
Police must stop categorising protest activities in this way, say 152 campaigners, lawyers, academics, journalists and politicians John Catt in 2010, the year he discovered that police had conducted surveillance on him at demonstrations between 2005 and 2009. This year the European court of human rights ruled that police acted Continue Reading
#BLMUK raises money to abolish UK Police
THE BLACK LIVES MATTER UK GOFUNDME PAGE HAS RAISED OVER £733K – HOWEVER IT CALLS FOR NOT ONLY RIDDING THE UK OF ‘CAPITALISM’ AND ‘IMPERIALISM’, BUT ALSO THE POLICE! The group, which is not a registered charity, said the funds would go towards a number of aims including “advocacy to Continue Reading
The Murder of George Floyd
Minneapolis has seen it’s second night of clashes following the death of George Floyd Members of the public who filmed Mr Floyd’s detaining were shocked by the the police officers ignoring Mr Floyd’s pleas to be able to breathe, and they themselves are heard pleading with the police officers to Continue Reading
BBC “Crime – Are We Tough Enough”
The BBC produced a ground breaking documentary series in January 2020 called “Crime – Are We Tough Enough?”. Taking as its starting point two people with quite opposing ideas about the Criminal Justice System’s future. The series featured Chris Daw QC; one of the country’s most eminent criminal defence barrister, Continue Reading
Crimes That Changed the Law – the Murder of Maxwell Confait
How a 1970s miscarriage of justice involving three teenage boys would lead to a radical overhaul of police powers and a brand new method of investigation The Murder of Maxwell Confait in 1972 . Maxwell was a male prostitute who was known as Michelle and lived on Dogget Street in Continue Reading
Spying on the Scammers
Tonight’s Panorama looked at the fast-growing ‘scam’ call centres that offer employment to previously legitimate call centre employees turning to the allure of high earning computer-scamming criminal operation setting up across cities India – in particular New Delhi. A professional Scam baiter Jim Browning (his alias on Youtube) had managed Continue Reading