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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the recruitment for 20,000 new police officers will start ‘within weeks’ in England and Wales. The Prime Minister said that new front line officers campaign will start in September. Mr Johnson plans to create a national policing board to make sure that forces meet the recruitment targets on time….
According to police watchdog, crimes are being investigated by inexperienced uniformed officers due to a shortage of investigators. A report found offences such as burglary and theft bare often resolved over the phone or assigned to “beat” officers (officers who patrol on foot or bicycle). HM Inspectorate of Constabulary said a quarter of victims are…
Three police officers are facing disciplinary action over the case of a woman who was fined for wasting police time when she reported her stalker ex who then went on to murder her. Shana Grice, 19, reported her ex-boyfriend Michael Lane five times before he slit her throat and tried to burn her body. Her…
According to figures obtained by children’s rights campaigners, half of the children shot by police with stun guns and a third of those restrained using spit hood in England are black or from other minority ethnic groups. In the first of nine months of last year police in England used electronic stun guns 839 times…
West Midlands Police is “failing victims” and not recording more than 16,600 violent crimes each year, watchdog has said. The force was rated inadequate by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services. Only 78.2% of violent crime and 89.2% of sexual offences were recorded and the force said it had made “substantial progress”….
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