‘Two police officers who stole cash and cigarettes from a house have been jailed after being caught in a sting operation by their own force.’
BBC News, 27th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A police officer has been asked to apologise to a blind man whom he shot with a Taser when he mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.’
The Guardian, 26th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The home secretary is to take personal charge of the way police respond to domestic abuse in England and Wales after a damning report exposed “alarming and unacceptable” weaknesses.’
The Guardian, 27th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court, 12th March 2014
‘How have recent stories like undercover policing, the deaths of Mark Duggan and Ian Tomlinson, and “Plebgate” affected public confidence in the police? Do the police have the right powers to do their job and do they use them as they should? Has the introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales helped to make the police more accountable?’
BBC Law in Action, 21st March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The police watchdog is investigating complaints about how a 15-year-old boy was strip-searched by officers after being arrested for a suspected drug offence.’
The Guardian, 20th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Speech given by Home Secretary Theresa May on 17 March 2014 at National Crime Agency leadership event.’
Home Office, 18th March 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘Policing Minister Damian Green addresses the Association of Police and Crime Commisioners general meeting.’
Home Office, 18th March 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘The police watchdog has begun an investigation after Greater Manchester police admitted keeping the remains of Harold Shipman’s victims for 12 years and then destroying them without telling bereaved relatives. The Independent Police Complaints Commission said on Monday that it was investigating whether senior officers misled the families of 12 of the serial killer’s victims over the storage of organs.’
The Guardian, 17th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A policeman who was sentenced for punching a suspected shoplifter in the head earlier this week has been found to have breached professional standards in another incident where he sprayed peaceful protesters with CS gas.’
The Guardian, 14th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘More than 4,500 children as young as 10 have been strip searched by the Metropolitan police over the past five years, data released under the Freedom of Information Act shows. The figures obtained by the Guardian show 4,638 children aged between 10 and 16 were asked to remove their clothes and then searched by police between April 2008 and the end of last year. Just over a third were released by police without charge.’
The Guardian, 16th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is to overhaul the way it investigates deaths at the hands of police in England and Wales.’
BBC News, 17th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘R (on the application of British Sky Broadcasting Limited) (Respondent) v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (Appellant) [2014] UKSC 17. This was an appeal from a ruling by the Administrative Court that it was procedurally unfair, and therefore unlawful, for BSkyB to have had a disclosure order made against it without full access to the evidence on which the police’s case was based and the opportunity to comment on or challenge that evidence.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th March 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 published
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
‘On the hearing of an application by a police officer for a production order under section 9 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, seeking access to journalistic material held by a news organisation for the purposes of an investigation into an alleged offence, the court could not have regard to evidence adduced by the police in support of the application which had not been disclosed to the news organisation.’
WLR Daily, 12th March 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A policeman who punched a shoplifter on the head before pinning her to the ground faces dismissal after being sentenced to a community order. Pc James Kiddie, 45, who had worked for the Metropolitan Police for 12 years, said he hit out after the “snarling” woman bit him on the finger and claimed that she had the Aids virus.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th March 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Two South Wales Police officers have been sacked after an investigation into how a colleague sexually assaulted domestic violence victims.’
BBC News, 10th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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