“A suspected Jamaican sex-offender charged five times but never convicted for allegedly raping vulnerable women has been banned from Britain for a decade in a controversial new police tactic to target foreign criminals.”
The Independent, 7th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“New guidance in place over police and local authority use of CCTV and Automatic Number Plate Recognition.”
Home Office, 4th June 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
“Lawyers say police could ‘circumvent criminal justice’ by using intelligence in civil immigration courts to increase deportations.”
The Guardian, 6th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has intervened in the debate over so-called secret arrests and said police should confirm the name of a suspect if they have been correctly identified by the media.”
The Guardian, 4th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A mother arrested on suspicion of murder after her son died of natural causes has accepted an undisclosed settlement from the police.”
BBC News, 6th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police use of stop and search has been cut by up to 50% in five forces, including London and the West Midlands, without slowing the fall in the crime rate, according to an official report.”
The Guardian, 6th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Fresh inquests into the deaths of the 96 Hillsborough victims will be held before a jury, a coroner has confirmed.”
BBC News, 5th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former Metropolitan police officer who had access to private information about wealthy Chelsea residents including the Duchess of Cambridge and Tetra Pak heir Hans Rausing has been jailed for two years for selling stories about them to the Sun.”
The Guardian, 5th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Inspectors of police service and prosecutors have called for decisive action to streamline the criminal justice process and end ‘the spectre of unnecessary bureaucracy’.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th June 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A nurse who spent six weeks in prison accused of poisoning patients at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital is to sue Greater Manchester Police (GMP).”
BBC News, 3rd June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A police force paid out £8,000 in compensation to a member of staff who was hurt tripping over a pile of paper in a corridor, it has emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Controversial police plans to protect the identity of criminal suspects before they are charged are backed by a large majority of the public, a survey for The Independent has found.”
The Independent, 31st May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Scotland Yard has discussed with the government a radical change in race relations law to allow positive discrimination in recruitment, as the growth of London’s ethnic minority populations makes the gap between the police ranks and those they serve wider than ever.”
The Guardian, 2nd June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Communications Data Bill, shelved amid political heavy weather, is back on the agenda in the wake of last week’s Woolwich murder. Today for example, Conservative MP and former policing minister Nick Herbert wrote an article in The Times in support of the Bill and responding to those who have called it a ‘snooper’s charter’.”
Panopticon, 29th May 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“A model is suing the Sun and Scotland Yard in the first civil claim linked to alleged corrupt payments to police officers and public officials.”
The Guardian, 27th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In 2010 Telford police allowed cameras to start filming what was to become one of the biggest child sex abuse cases in the UK.”
Channel 4 Dispatches, 23rd May 2013
Source: www.channel4.com
“A Panorama investigation reveals how police, politicians, lawyers and judges all played a part in burying the truth about Britain’s worst football disaster.
Never-before-broadcast footage of the FA Cup semi-final in which 96 Liverpool fans died reveals a catastrophic failure by the emergency services, how lives might have been saved and how subsequent inquiries were misled.
And a former home secretary and former police chiefs are put on the spot about why a succession of official investigations left the truth hidden for a generation.”
BBC Panorama, 23rd May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Controversial plans to protect the identity of suspects arrested by police were in disarray last night after the Director of Public Prosecutions called for more ‘wriggle room’ to name suspects before they were charged.”
The Independent, 21st May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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