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| Police forces and councils need to tell the public more about what they are doing to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. That is the view of Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s neighbourhood justice co-ordinator Graeme Drayton, who has urged the authority to help make residents feel safer in their communities by telling them about local successes in the fight against crime. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 7 July 2009 |
| Nearly half a million pounds fraudulently claimed in benefits is being recovered. Figures released by Stoke-on-Trent City Council show £472,356 in overpaid benefits currently being repaid to the council following work by the Benefit Investigation Team. In total, 95 benefit cheats were sanctioned and 40 prosecuted following investigations during the last financial year. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 22 June 2009 |
| A church in Belfast gave overnight shelter to more than 100 Romanian migrants who fled their homes in the Lisburn Road area of the city after suffering racist attacks. The pastor, Malcolm Morgan, said that he was ready to help. ‘It’s a sad indictment of our society... but hopefully we can show them a caring side to Northern Ireland’, he added. Anna Lo of the Alliance Party said the attacks on the Romanians’ homes – which included bricks being thrown through windows, had been going on for almost a week. The Romanians were later taken to other temporary accommodation. | |
| Crime | War Cry- June 2009 |
| A suspected stolen Stradivarius violin worth millions has been discovered for sale online for £13,000. Police in eastern Romania said a 43-year-old man trying to sell it was visited by undercover officers posing as customers. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 4 June 2009 |
| Nine people have been arrested by police investigating a gang who made hundreds of thousands of pounds in commission by buying their own music online with stolen credit cards. Detectives from the Met Police Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU) raided properties in London and the Midlands, including Birmingham and Wolverhampton, as part of the operation. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 11 June 2009 |
| War crimes suspects who come to the UK are escaping justice because of “legal loopholes”, according to a report by the Aegis Trust. The report, which calls for changes in the law, names Felicien Kabuga - who is accused of financing the Rwandan genocide - and Liberian Chucky Taylor, who was convicted of torture in the U.S., as two who came to the UK and not brought before courts. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 16 June 2009 |
| Thieves have stolen priceless floor tiles from a Norfolk church in what is believed to be the first theft of its kind. The irreplaceable tiles – which have been in place for over 500 years – were taken from the entrance porch of the historic St Peter’s Church in Crostwick, near Norwich. The church is hidden from the road and discovered only by exploring the common on which it stands. The tiles are thought to date back to when the porch was built in 1504, with money bequeathed for that purpose. Some of the tiles were deliberately smashed so that others could be freed, so even those that have been left in the Grade 1 listed building have been ruined. Police believe that the tiles were stolen to order. | |
| Crime | Church of England- May 2009 |
| Prisoners smashing up their cells fuelled a prison maintenance bill of £320 million last year, a report revealed. In some jails, maintenance teams spent half their time fixing damage caused by inmates, auditors found. The National Audit Office said vandalism was one of the principal causes of maintenance work, accounting for 75 per cent of unplanned maintenance at Stoke Heath Young Offenders Institution, in Shropshire. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel- 21 May 2009 |
| Criminal assets confiscated by forces and other asset recovery agencies between October and December 2008 totalled £31.8 million, nationally. Half that sum is to be shared between police, prosecutors, courts and other agencies. A total of £5.5 million will be given to the 43 police forces in England and Wales, compared with £5.14 million paid out in the same quarter last year. Staffordshire will receive £96,905.31 while Cheshire Police will be given £207,564.25. Since the Proceeds of Crime Act came into effect in 2003, £530.5 million has been seized. An incentive scheme introduced in 2006 allows the police and recovery agencies to retain half of all cash they seize from criminals. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - April 15 2009 |
| Calls have been made for frontline ambulance staff to be issued with body armour. Figures released under Freedom of Information legislation uncovered almost 7,500 addresses where ambulance staff require a police escort or are advised to exercise caution because of the potential for violence. The highest number of addresses was reported by the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust – covering Cheshire. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - 25th February 2009 |
| “35 Million Yob Crimes a Year” screamed an exaggerated Daily Express headline last week. Rarely do the presss miss an opportunity to report the latest example of antisocial behaviour amongst Britain’s youth. Indeed, for as long as I can remember the media has focused more on the problems with young people than the positives. Society is constantly bombarded with words and images that detail the transgression of today’s youth. We are shown a world of knife-crime, mugging, binge-drinking and drug-taking. According to a recent poll commissioned by Barnardo’s, more than half of the adult respondents (53%) said that children were beginning to “behave like animals”. Even more shockingly, 45% now refer to children as “feral”. In reality, according to the British Crime Survey, it is actually adults who are responsible for 88% of criminal activity. | |
| Crime | Church of England Newspaper - 20th February 2009 |
| Police were called to schools in England more than 7,000 times in the past year to deal with violence, figures revealed today. Shadow children’s secretary Michael Gove said the statistics, obtained via a Freedom of Information request to which 25 of 39 English police forces responded, were very worrying. The figures revealed that officers were called to 7,311 violent incidents in schools during 2007/8. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - 23rd December 2008 |
| An elderly priest in the United States has admitted stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his church collection to fund a lavish lifestyle. Investigators believe Mgr John Skehan, 81, took up to $8m over 40 years from St Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach, Florida. But legal constraints meant he could only be charged with stealing $370,000 between 2001 and 2006. | |
| Crime | The Universe - 1st February 2009 |
| The prison system is under “sustained and chronic” pressure which risks undermining stability and order, ministers were warned today. The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Dame Anne Owers, said prisons in England and Wales are “increasingly fractious” with more inmates on longer sentences who may feel they have “little to loose". | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - 29th January 2009 |
| Reported fraud reached its highest level for 13 years in 2008 at more that £1 billion. Over £1.1 billion of fraud came to court last year, according to accounting firm KPMG’s Fraud Barometer, more than in any other year since 1995 and the second greatest in the survey’s 21 year history. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel - 2nd February 2009 |
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