Greater Manchester chief constable Peter Fahy tried to assuage public fears that outsourcing could lead to private firms carrying out investigations, patrolling or detaining suspects. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA Police privatisation plans defended by senior officers Association of Chief Police Officers says only radical change will allow forces to cope with cuts and protect the public [...]
This site has consistently said that a privatisation of the police force was a matter of certainty, particularly once gaols were becoming privatised. It is actually quite a simple process. After all police are just private citizens given extra powers. It seems the UK is well advanced on that path to privatisation. This was perhaps a matter that [...]
Bill Bratton, the former New York police chief, has expressed interest in becoming the commissioner of the Metropolitan police. Photograph: J. Emilio Flores/Getty Images The former US police chief Bill Bratton has said he is a “progressive” who can lead British policing out of “crisis”, reduce crime despite budget cuts, and bring about “transformational” change [...]
Police with mourners at the scene of a hit and run incident in Birmingham in which three men died. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Senior police officers were in open revolt over the government’s police reform agenda on Friday, reacting furiously to criticism of the way they handled the riots, and turning their fire on the home [...]
The grill of a looted shop in Manchester, where the rioting was described by a police chief as ‘senseless on a scale I have never witnessed before in my career’. Photograph: Jon Super/AP While there is a push to label the unrest in the UK as some sort of anarchist uprising that is not the situation. [...]
Rupert Murdoch was accused by the Acpo president, Sir Hugh Orde, of ‘complete denial of any responsibility of his organisation’. Photograph: Louis Lanzano/AP Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers,has lambasted Rupert Murdoch, saying the chairman of News Corporation had shown a complete denial of responsibility for what had gone on in his [...]
The Met police has been asked to guarantee it will investigate all cases where someone suspects a tabloid tracked their whereabouts using their mobile phone signal. Photograph: Felix Clay Scotland Yard has been asked to inspect thousands of files that could reveal whether its officers unlawfully procured mobile phone-tracking data for News of the World reporters. [...]
Undercover police officer Mark Kennedy was ‘involved in activities that went much further than the authorisation he was given’, the appeal court judges ruled Three senior judges have ruled that the undercover police officer Mark Kennedy unlawfully spied on protesters and arguably acted as an “agent provocateur”. In a damning ruling explaining why they quashed the convictions [...]
Britain’s Private Militias Posted: 19 Apr 2011 08:54 AM PDT The Ratcliffe miscarriage of justice shows that we need a sweeping reform of the police. By George Monbiot. Published on the Guardian’s website, 19th April 2011. Here, so far, are the results of the undercover surveillance operation the police conducted against a group of climate [...]
