Not a great deal has happened ?

Well this was the New Labour new initiative that was really going to set the world on fire, reduce the fear of crime and deal with some of the real issues that the population was concerned about.
Significant new investment in police, courts and prisons, as well as in local crime reduction activity and action against [...]

Tough on Crime

A woman is to stand trial at crown court for allegedly throwing an apple core out of her car window. Kate Badger, from Cornwall Road in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, refused to pay a £60 on-the-spot fine after the alleged incident in March last year.
The 25-year-old appeared before magistrates in the city where she elected to stand [...]

Devil’s Advocate

I THOUGHT long and hard before I bought the baseball bat and tucked it away beneath the carpet in the car boot.
The machete under the bed I can justify to myself: anyone coming up those stairs in the dark is clearly up to no good and is therefore going to get it. Similarly, the sawn-off [...]

Yobs forced me to move home

Well the Telegraph just about says it all, almost
I thought I might have been reading an April 1st edition but no, this is still February so I am a little early.
A Police Superintendent has admitted that he was forced to move house by youths hanging around outside his home. He has allegedly said that he decided [...]

PC Geoff King

A price worth paying?  care of Stan Still.

Like the vast majority of us, PC Geoff King joined West Midlands Police “to reduce crime and disorder and make our communities feel safer”
PC King was patrolling an area of Wolverhampton that had been hit by a spate of car thefts. He was doing his duty and being the [...]

PC Ray Bradley.

In June 2007 PC Ray Bradley was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service to Avon and Somerset Constabulary in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. He was one of only two PCs in the country to receive this award. Ray is not your average PC as he operates from a police house. Hishouse is nestled [...]

2-0 Home win.

The cars that get stolen on a regular basis in our area seem to turn up discarded around the Britannia Estate with an alarming and monotonous regularity. Most of them damaged, some of them torched. Almost every  STOVEC that is seen ends up at one of the strategically placed decamp spots where lanes, footpaths or cycleways offer the increasingly [...]

Benefit system madness.

Muslim husbands with more than one wife to get extra benefits as ministers recognise polygamy. This is not made up. I read this article on dinoplod’s blog under the title ‘I don’t believe it’. I simply find it……………………..unbelievable, shall we say. 
This is absolutely staggering that someone can claim extra benefits for having more than one wife……………………….and [...]

Accountable ?

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker.
It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” ……………………………… Ronald Reagan
Did Ronald Reagan really say something like this ?  Apparently so, according to the quote of the moment.
Replace America with the UK [...]

Protecting the ? ? ? ? The public ?

 
This is the Newlove Family. The man in the centre, with the glasses, is Gary Newlove. Sadly, his family will never see him again. He was kicked to death and the court proceedings that convicted his killers made national headlines. One of the group who kicked him to death, Adam Swellings, was convicted of murder [...]