Hampshire police unveil new ‘Noddy car’ for patrols

London, May 20 (ANI): Hampshire Police have unveiled a 1,000-pound, pedal-powered patrol car complete with siren and flashing lights.

PC Keith Waller believes that engaging youngsters to construct the trendy Noddy-car vehicle for the British Pedal Car Grand Prix will help the community.

“Getting youngsters involved gives them something to focus on so they are not committing antisocial behaviour,” The Times quoted him as saying.

He spent 40 hours building it with teenagers at Ringwood Comprehensive School to try to make the image of the police “cooler”, but he admitted that it drew comparisons with Mr Plod from Noddy. (ANI)

Six people charged for allegedly assaulting police

Six people have been charged after allegedly assaulting two police officers at Mornington Island in Queensland’s Gulf country.

The officers were called to a disturbance on Saturday night and attempted to arrest a woman for illegally possessing alcohol.

The officers were not seriously injured but their police car was damaged.

The group of four men and two women have been charged with a range of offences including serious assault of police, wilful damage and riot.

They are expected to appear in the Mount Isa Magistrates Court this morning.

Driver accused of towie attack

A central Victorian man has been taken into custody after allegedly attacking a police car and tow truck driver yesterday.

Police impounded the man’s car after he was caught driving at 155 kilometres per hour on the Calder Freeway at Malmsbury near Castlemaine.

Earlier this week, police issued a warrant for the 29-year-old after he failed to appear in court over another matter.

He is also facing charges including intentionally and recklessly causing serious injury, after a brawl in Hepburn Springs near Daylesford last week.

A Melbourne man suffered a fractured skull in the brawl and was airlifted to hospital.

Stolen car found after gaming robberies

Adelaide police have found a stolen car used in two robberies.

Just before 11.30pm on Tuesday, two men armed with a pole robbed the gaming room of the Old Lion Hotel at North Adelaide.

Ten minutes later, the same men, armed with a screwdriver and a bat, also stole money from the gaming room of the nearby Buckingham Arms Hotel.

Each time they escaped in a black Mitsubishi Lancer, which was found dumped at Queenstown late on Wednesday morning.

The suspects were described by police as Aboriginal in appearance and in dark clothing.

Police officer stood down over breath test refusal

A Wheatbelt police officer, charged with refusing a breath test while on duty, has been stood down from operational duties.

Senior Constable Summer Cybele Roberts was contacted while off-duty and called in to work to attend a domestic violence incident in Toodyay.

After collecting a marked police car from the Toodyay police station, she drove to another location to pick up another officer.

The second officer was concerned she had consumed alcohol.

When Constable Roberts returned to the station, she was asked by the Officer in Charge to undergo a breath test which she allegedly refused.

She was not present for a scheduled hearing in the Northam Magistrates Court today.

The case has been adjourned for eight weeks.

Arrests made over high-speed pursuits

Nine high-speed chases in Adelaide have resulted in several arrests.

There have been pursuits in the city and at suburbs including Woodville West, Wingfield, Elizabeth and Mawson Lakes, between 1:00am and 3:00am.

A police car was rammed in Hackney Road near the city as it tried to stop a stolen car.

That chase ended at Hope Valley when the car crashed into a fence.

Two people were arrested.

Another police vehicle was rammed by a defected Holden at Gepps Cross and the driver arrested.

At Mawson Lakes, an innocent driver was injured after police crashed into their car while pursuing a stolen Commodore.

The driver of that car was eventually caught after police set up cordons in the area.

Police rammed by stolen car suspect

A man will face court today charged with ramming a police car at Zetland in Sydney’s south yesterday.

Two officers were patrolling nearby Rosebery in an unmarked car about 11:40am (AEDT), when they spotted a car that had been reported as stolen.

The officers pursued the driver after he failed to stop when directed.

The 30-year-old allegedly rammed the police car before coming to a stop in O’Dea Avenue, where he was arrested.

He was refused bail to appear at Central Local Court.

The police officers were not hurt in the pursuit.

Brooklyn man catches girlfriend enjoying threesome, kills all

New York, Mar 13 (ANI): A man in Brooklyn murdered his girlfriend and two other men after he caught them having a threesome.

The 50-year-old has admitted he committed the crime and threw the dead bodies of the two men at some place in New Jersey.

“He made statements implicating himself in the deaths,” the New York Post quoted NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, as saying.

The convict had found his 51-year-old girlfriend having sex with the two men after midnight in her apartment at 1518 Eastern Parkway in Brownsville.

He later left a voicemail with a friend saying he had killed all three of them.

When cops reached the house, the suspect was found hovering over the woman’s dead body in a back bedroom.

However, it has not been confirmed if the three victims were shot or beaten to death.

Regine Nole, a neighbor, said the man “didn’t look afraid or upset” when police took him away.

“He just put his head down and went into the police car,” Nole said.

Referring to the dead woman, she added: “She was dating more than one guy and just moved into this apartment three weeks ago.”

Another neighbour Lulu Facey, said she had heard someone yelling ‘Help! Help!’”, but had assumed somebody was scared of dogs barking at another apartment. (ANI)

Pair sentenced over car theft drug plot

A judge says a plot to steal cars from a Port Adelaide dealership and sell them at Port Lincoln was “colossally stupid”.

The District Court in Adelaide heard Helen Jane Edwards, 40, Nathan Lisle Robert Boyce, 23, and a third person were chased by a police car at Whyalla in 2008.

The police car was rammed during the pursuit.

The offenders had stolen two utilities from a Port Adelaide car dealership and another from Whyalla.

The court was told they were being driven to Port Lincoln to be sold for drug money.

Police used road spikes to end the lengthy pursuit.

Edwards and Boyce have already spent nine months in custody.

They have been given suspended jail sentences and put on a two-year good behaviour bond.

Police campaign targets car break-ins

Mackay police say they are aiming to reduce the number of thefts from unlocked cars by 100 per cent over the next three months.

Sergeant Nigel Dalton says in the past six months an average of one car a day has been broken into, with many of them left unlocked.

Police will be placing brochures on parked cars to remind people to remove all valuables.

Sergeant Dalton says the campaign was run a year ago and saw a 19 per cent decrease in car break ins.

“These brochures will be distributed on people’s windscreens,” he said.

“We want them to use the ‘Empty Car, All Valuables Removed’ part of the brochure – we want that to be displayed in the car.

“It works two ways. The person who’s about to steal from your car, they’ll read that and think ‘this person has taken steps to prevent a crime’.”

Afghan blasts kill 12

Two homemade bombs exploding in quick succession have killed 12 people, including 10 civilians, in an increasingly volatile part of north-western Afghanistan.

Police spokesman Abdul Raouf Ahmadi said the first blast hit a civilian vehicle in Badghis province, killing 10 passengers. The second, minutes later nearby, struck a police car, killing two policemen.

The strikes took place on Sunday but were not reported until Monday morning.

Badghis, in the north west of Afghanistan, is one of the northern areas that has seen increasing militant activity as Taliban fighters spread their influence from traditional strongholds in the south and east of the country.

Roadside bombs are by far the militants’ most lethal weapon, usually targeting police or government troops as well as foreign forces. Frequently, civilians are also killed.

Civilian deaths caused by Western or government forces are a source of intense anger in Afghanistan, but the United Nations says most civilian deaths are caused by insurgents and the number killed by troops is declining.

Mullah Abdul Manan, a militant commander in the area, said the two bombs had killed Afghan and foreign troops and denied civilians had been killed.

Baghdad car bomb kills 8, wounds 14 – police

A car bomb killed eight people and wounded 14 in the Shi’ite Kadhimiya district of northwest Baghdad on Tuesday, police said, a day after seven car bombs killed 37 people across the Iraqi capital.

Police said the number of casualties from the attack, near a Shi’ite mosque, was preliminary and could rise.

Violence has fallen dramatically in Iraq in the past year, but al Qaeda and other insurgents have shown themselves still capable of launching frequent large-scale attacks.

Kadhimiya is the site of a Shi’ite shrine.

Police say a car bomb blast kills 4, injures 20 in India’s northeast, AS

GAUHATI, India (AP) Police say a car bomb blast kills 4, injures 20 in India’s northeast.

Crooks land in jail after group mate seeks cops’ help to retrieve loot!

New Delhi, March 28 (ANI): A group of four crooks was arrested by the Chinese police when one of its members sought cops’ help, following a fight over money after the robbers had looted a woman.

They robbed the woman on a street in Nanbu county, Sichuan province, of 160 yuan (23 dollars).

Given that one of the thieves, surnamed Li, wanted to keep all the money, a fight between the group members ensued.

The other three crooks then beat him, and stole the money from him.

Li later flagged down a police car and asked for help, reports the China Daily.

All four of them were arrested by the police, which then returned the money to the woman. (ANI)

Sacked Muslim cop called “f***ing Paki” to sue UK police dept for racism

London, Mar. 10 (ANI): A Muslim cop has claimed that he was forced out of his job after his colleagues referred to him as “f***ing Paki”, and poked fun at his beard.

Former PC Javid Iqbal alleged that Bedfordshire police officers of white ethnicity told him that they were superior to him, and hence forced him to walk home from jobs instead of sending a police car to pick him up.

The Sun quoted Iqbal, as saying, “My beard is an important part of my religion, my identity and my life. There is no other reason for me having a five-inch beard. I am proud of it and it was never a problem in the 18 months I served as a special constable.

I devoted myself to the force voluntarily before I became a PC. I believed in putting something back into society.”

Iqbal had just returned to work after nine months leave on full pay with depression when he was given the boot for poor performance.

Bedfordshire Police stated: “A student officer’s services were dispensed with in August 2008 on grounds of capability.”

However, Iqbal claimed that he was sacked by Bedfordshire Police after fellow officers launched a “smear campaign” making complaints about his performance.

He said officers gave “negative statements” to superiors about him, including an allegation he failed to help a colleague arresting a violent man. He was cleared when CCTV showed he was dealing with other people.

“I’m disgusted I was bullied because of my beliefs. I’ve no doubt institutional racism played a part in this. White officers used to pull faces when they were asked to go on patrol with me,” he said.

He will put his case to an employment tribunal, claiming religious and racial discrimination plus unfair dismissal, saying that shortly after he joined a PC training course in 2006, he became a victim of racial abuse. (ANI)

Jodie Foster’s didn’t accept speeding ticket when pulled over by cops

New York, Feb 28 (ANI): When American actress Jodie Foster was caught speeding by officers from the Beverly Hills Police Department, she did not accept the ticket they gave her quietly.

The incident was witnessed by a crew from truTV’s reality show “Speeders”, who ride with the highway patrols to film motorists getting caught speeding and then trying to talk their way out of a ticket.

Foster’s Prius was clocked as allegedly going 54 mph in a 35 mph zone, and when she was pulled over, she insisted she was not speeding.

“Foster refused to sign a waiver to appear on the show, so the camera crew ceased filming and returned to the police car,” the New York Post quoted a source as saying.

“But she grew quite agitated and angry, and kept insisting to the police officers that the radar gun must have made a mistake.

“She maintained to the officers that she was only going 30 mph at the time they pulled her over, and she kept interrupting and complaining that the process was taking too long,” the source said.

During Foster’s histrionics, the officer made a call to get his supervisor to the scene, “which just further annoyed her,” according to the source.

“Despite her numerous requests otherwise, the cops still issued her a citation,” the source added.

Beverly Hills Police spokesman Lt. Tony Lee added: “She was upset that she got pulled over, but she signed the ticket and went on her way.” (ANI)

Jodie Foster’s didn’t accept speeding ticket when pulled over by cops

New York, Feb 28 (ANI): When American actress Jodie Foster was caught speeding by officers from the Beverly Hills Police Department, she did not accept the ticket they gave her quietly.

The incident was witnessed by a crew from truTV’s reality show “Speeders”, who ride with the highway patrols to film motorists getting caught speeding and then trying to talk their way out of a ticket.

Foster’s Prius was clocked as allegedly going 54 mph in a 35 mph zone, and when she was pulled over, she insisted she was not speeding.

“Foster refused to sign a waiver to appear on the show, so the camera crew ceased filming and returned to the police car,” the New York Post quoted a source as saying.

“But she grew quite agitated and angry, and kept insisting to the police officers that the radar gun must have made a mistake.

“She maintained to the officers that she was only going 30 mph at the time they pulled her over, and she kept interrupting and complaining that the process was taking too long,” the source said.

During Foster’s histrionics, the officer made a call to get his supervisor to the scene, “which just further annoyed her,” according to the source.

“Despite her numerous requests otherwise, the cops still issued her a citation,” the source added.

Beverly Hills Police spokesman Lt. Tony Lee added: “She was upset that she got pulled over, but she signed the ticket and went on her way.” (ANI)