OSPRE 1: Constable to Sergeant Week 5

Headlines

ACC calling for change to under 18s strip search policy - ACC Chris Todd intends to 'go further' than the current policy by recommending that strip searches are not carried out on a young person 'unless there is an appropriate adult present'.

'Significant problems' with PACE reviews of detention says HMIC - HMICFRS said the rising custody throughput in GMP which is creating extra demand is down to the force's 'strategic priority to tackle crime and increase arrests'.

Stop and search proposal in Public Order Bill heavily defeated - Peers also back restrictions on the use of protest banning orders, and stripped out completely a provision that would have allowed the sanction to be imposed against people who had not been convicted of any offence.

Racial disparity in decisions to prosecute - The Crown Prosecution Service has today published research which has found that Black and minority ethnic defendants are significantly more likely to be charged for a comparable offence than white British defendants in England and Wales.

OSPRE 1: Constable to Sergeant Week 5

In the fifth week of the series we look at the next three roads policing chapters; reportable accidents, drink driving & drugs and insurance.

Date - 24th October 2014
By - Phil Waters - Executive Guidance

So here we are already, the fifth instalment of weekly articles aimed at helping you to pass your sergeants exam. Taking our second trip into roads policing, we look at Chapter 4 - Reportable Accidents and Chapter 5 - Drink Driving &...

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In the eighth week of the series we revisit the Blackstone's Crime Manual and look at three chapters; firearms and gun crime, racially and religiously aggravated offences and non-fatal offences against the person.

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ACC calling for change to under 18s strip search policy

ACC Chris Todd intends to 'go further' than the current policy by recommending that strip searches are not carried out on a young person 'unless there is an appropriate adult present'.

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