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Court jails Dizaei for corruption

MET Cdr Ali Dizaei has been sentenced to four years in jail after being found guilty of misconduct in a public office and perverting the course of justice during a four-week trial.

09 February 2010

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Court hears web designer is 'a crook'

Fast track

Two separate schemes have been designed to speed UK police officers through the ranks, but are bobbies being promoted too quickly?

04 February 2010

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Nearly a third of bobbies have less than five years experience

Home Office launches counter to terrorist websites

A dedicated webpage on UK government website Directgov will be linked to a new national ACPO police team set up specifically to investigate offensive and extremists sites.

02 February 2010

Bonus buster

Cinderella man John Pollock says policing 'has not been seen as sufficiently important' compared with other services in Scotland (Ben Stansall)

How healthy is the state of policing north of the border? John Pollock, president of the Association of Scottish Superintendents, talks to Sarah Bebbington about bonuses, funding cuts and the 2012 London Olympic Games

03 February 2010

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Force scotches priority pay for the few

Pray to solve crimes, Christian cops urge

exclusive by Sarah Bebbington and Royston Martis

28 January 2010

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Divine rights?

Going solo

doubled up Today’s officers are accustomed to patrolling in pairs, but in the 1820s the original architects of the new police service envisaged lone bobbies on the beat (iStockphoto)

Controversial calls for single patrolling have been motivated by economic and Policing Pledge demands. Derek Barham argues that asking officers to patrol alone would represent a return to original policing values

21 January 2010

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Award winner dedicated to Mersey beat

Inside job

Once a criminal is convicted and imprisoned, many police officers will consider it 'job done'. However, hundreds of bobbies work inside jails. Max Blain meets the man who provides the link between the police and prisons

26 January 2010

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Committee urges focus on crime prevention

Authority 'failed force' on double death

Leicestershire Police Authority has been criticised for failing to ensure Leicestershire Constabulary's effectiveness in delivering 'services that matter' to residents.

19 January 2010

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Situation critical

Haiti faces post-earthquake threat to security

The Notre Dame de Port au Prince cathedral was destroyed. The old cemetery west of the building is being used as an ad hoc burial ground for the dead. (GeoEye)

Earthquake is a devastating blow to chronically unstable and impoverished Haiti

18 January 2010

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Blind lead the blind in Haiti

It's hats off for the British bobby's helmet

While last year's policing White paper called for a standard national uniform across England and Wales's police forces, the future of the custodian helmet seems secure.

15 January 2010

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Identity crisis

Identity crisis

As Leicestershire Constabulary rolls out uniforms with the full names of police officers and staff on their epaulettes, Police Review assesses responses to the move with supporters saying it makes officers more approachable and critics believing it could put them in danger.

12 January 2010

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Women Police Officers Say Men's Uniforms are a Sore Point

Met commander Dizaei 'bullied' web designer

A jury hears allegations that a Met commander threatened, bullied and falsely arrested a man

12 January 2010

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Service modernisation may be a return to dark ages, says report

National trust

While most of the 2012 Olympic Games events will be held in London, it is not just the Met's officers that will have to be prepared for its policing. Jane's Police Review talks to some of the other forces which are expecting hoards of visitors on an Olympic scale

05 January 2010

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Fortress Olympics - counting the cost of major event security

Bill aims to centralise authority over DNA

The Crime and Security Bill, currently going through the UK's parliament, aims to limit the chief constables' power to retain peoples' profiles on police DNA databases.

07 January 2010

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European Court DNA ruling dismays UK Government

Service modernisation may be a return to dark ages, says report

THE police service's workforce modernisation programme could prevent women and disabled people from carrying out fully sworn officer roles

24 December 2009

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Diversity in Action 2008