‘Plans by the home secretary, Theresa May, to force health professionals to report cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) to the police are unlikely to lower the extent of abuse and risk dissuading families from seeking medical help, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.’
The Guardian, 17th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Authorities in England have pledged to bring an end to the practice of detaining people with mental health problems in police cells. The NHS, councils and police are now set to come up with plans for how they will achieve this, the government said.’
BBC News, 18th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Twenty years ago the government backed a major expansion of the CCTV network – now funds are being cut and cameras shut off. Is the UK’s CCTV boom over, asks Rachel Argyle.’
BBC News, 15th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A woman who repeatedly warned police about the paedophile activities of the disgraced rock star Ian Watkins, but was herself prosecuted after trying to entrap him, claimed children could have been saved from abuse if she had been believed.’
The Guardian, 14th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A joint protocol, created and implemented by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Police has been launched today [Thursday 8 January 2015], setting out how to deal with all rape cases from the initial complaint to after the verdict in a trial.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 8th January 2015
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘The Home Office regulations, which come into force today [12 January], will ensure police officers are held to account for their actions.’
Home Office, 12th January 2015
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘A teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a 14-year-old boy he met through online gaming.’
BBC News, 12th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has said it was not in the “best interests” of a former undercover police officer who used cocaine “on more than one occasion” to sue his police force for psychiatric injury.’
Litigation Futures, 12th January 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.co.uk
‘An armed officer who risked his life to protect the public during a shootout in north London has been commended for his “courage and resolve”.’
BBC News, 9th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The law governing the monitoring of sex offenders, allowing police officers to visit the homes of registered offenders, did not constitute an unlawful interference with the offenders’ privacy rights under Article 8 of the ECHR.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th January 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Prosecutors are experiencing a 30% surge in the number of rape trials as courts struggle to cope with a backlog of historical allegations and fresh cases.’
The Guardian, 8th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The identities of dead teenagers as old as 17 were stolen by undercover police officers, according to figures released by Scotland Yard after an MP’s near two-year battle to expose the information.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The College of Policing guidance relating to post-incident management of investigations into deaths that followed the use of force by police officers met the procedural requirements of article 2 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and so was lawful.’
WLR Daily, 19th December 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Informal visits by the police officers to a registered sex offender’s home seeking entry by consent were in accordance with the law. The scheme for the protection of vulnerable persons from sex offenders as a whole was not disproportionate.’
WLR Daily, 18th December 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Many girls in the criminal justice system are being sexually exploited and some youth offending teams are failing to provide protection for them, independent inspectors have said.’
The Guardian, 19th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The National Crime Agency (NCA) has begun an investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.’
BBC News, 18th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A PC who passed on intelligence about police killer Dale Cregan and planned drugs raids to her sister and drug-dealing former lover has been jailed.’
BBC News, 17th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Teenagers experiencing mental health problems will no longer be detained in police cells as a “place of safety”.’
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BBC News, 18th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Terms of Reference describe the aims and scope of the triennial review of the IPCC.’
Home Office, 15th December 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘The Metropolitan police are to face a formal investigation by the equalities watchdog into whether the force broke the law and discriminated against staff.’
The Guardian, 15th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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