A member of the Metropolitan POlices’ Special Escort Group (SEG) has been hospitalised after being struck by a minicab only a short distance from Kensington Palace. The incident happened on Tuesday 21st January at around 11:00 hours. The specially trained motorcycle cop was riding his marked police bike through Paddington, west London when the collision took place in Gloucester Terrace.
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A woman has been cleared of causing a fatal crash which killed a well known Thames Valley Police Officer who appeared on TV’s Road Wars and a 91-year-old woman. PC James ‘Dixie’ Dixon and Gladys Goodwin were killed in Wargrave, Berkshire in December 2017. A jury found Agne Jasulaitiene not guilty of two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
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A man has been jailed after injuring a police officer in Bristol. Alexander Beckford pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm, racial abuse, and assaulting a police officer. The 45-year-old pushed an on-duty police officer in Perry Street on 13 September. The officer fell, suffering injuries to his head and knee, requiring hospital treatment. Beckford was arrested shortly afterwards, at
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A man wanted by police in connection with the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky has been arrested. Piran Ditta Khan, aged 71, was arrested yesterday (Tuesday) in Pakistan and has appeared at court in Islamabad today (Wednesday) where matters relating to his extradition were discussed. He was remanded in custody to next appear at court on 29 January. PC Beshenivsky
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Officers from Lancashire Constabulary are appealing for witnesses/information after an Audi Q7 was stolen while a 1-year-old boy was asleep in the backseat. The incident happened in Chorley on Thursday 9th January at around 19:05 hours when the driver of the car parked up to collect someone from a house on Lichfield Road. The Audi was left unlocked with the
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A man has been charged with assault on police after two officers were sprayed with a noxious substance after responding to reports of a disturbance. Police were called at around 19:30hrs on Thursday 2nd January to reports of an altercation at Sandal Sreet, E15. Response team officers attended the scene, and Nelson was arrested on suspicion of a Section 4
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The Family of PC Jon Casey, the officer seriously injured in a hit-and-run incident on Monday 6th January at around 00:10 hours on Chigwell Road IG8, have released an image of him as he recovers in hospital from his serious injuries. At about 00:10hrs on Monday, 6 January officers indicated for a grey Mini Cooper to stop in Chigwell Hill,
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A teenager has been arrested after he was seen to damage two Scarborough police vehicles as he left the court At around midday on 6th Jan, the staff at the Scarborough Justice Centre reported to the police that someone was in the process of damaging a marked police vehicle on Northway outside the court. According to North Yorkshire Police, the
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Two officers were hurt trying to stop a suspected dangerous driver in Birmingham city centre during a busy start to 2020 for West Midlands Police. Cops patrolling in Broad Street at 4.30 am were alerted to a grey BMW that’s understood to have made off following a collision in Gas Street. They tried to stop the 320i M Sport model
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Police officers from Northamptonshire Police’s Dog Section have rescued an Alaskan Malamute called Thor from a Rushden couple. Thor first came to the attention of police officers in August 2019 when he strayed from his address and bit a neighbour who tried to return him. Three months later, he bit another neighbour and was seized by police officers under the
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