http://www.badgewars.com General Police and Crime News Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:06:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In 1993, a toddler was kidnapped and battered to death by young pair John Venables and Robert Thompson. This year, Venables broke the terms of his release from prison, and is therefore asked to return. The way or ways in which Venables broke his release are unknown, but Bulger’s mother ... http://www.badgewars.com/venables-case-74 According to local police, one man from Burnley is chiefly responsible for pushing up the overall crime rate in the area and making Burnley in Lancashire the burglary capital of the UK. Statistics released by the Home Office show that the borough has the highest number of burglaries (2,154 a ... http://www.badgewars.com/one-man-responsible-for-making-burnley-the-burglary-capital-of-britain-65 The government has recently launched a campaign to crack down on the amount of online scams targeting UK residents. In order to deal with the issue, government bosses assembled a specialist team of cyber-enforcers and secured extra funding from Trading Standards. It is estimated that 3 million people a year ... http://www.badgewars.com/government-to-crack-down-on-cybercrime-62 According to recent reports, a new police scheme has been rolled out in Kent which involves criminals being made to apologise to their victims face-to-face in an attempt to curb re-offence rates. Victims will have the opportunity of explaining the impact the crime has had on their lives, and also ... http://www.badgewars.com/why-the-new-police-apology-scheme-is-a-good-thing-60 A crime-reduction scheme named ‘Operation Drystone’ launched by North Yorkshire Police in October 2008 has started to see some impressive results. This rapid-response scheme involved more of a high-visibility police presence in the area in an attempt to drive down crime rates and reduce anti-social behaviour in the area and ... http://www.badgewars.com/operation-drystone-in-north-yorkshire-a-resounding-success-58 In research compiled by insurance company Endsleigh, the city of Hull in East Yorkshire has been named the number one car crime hot-spot in the country. The results for other UK cities look like this: 1. Hull 2. Nottingham 3. Bradford 4. Manchester 5. Doncaster On the other end of the scale, the towns of Swindon, Cheltenham, Southampton, Solihull and Bangor ... http://www.badgewars.com/hull-emerges-as-car-crime-hot-spot-57 The two men who were flying their Piper PA-31 who came down in a field on Friday near Oxford airport have been named as pilot Anthony Corr, 54 and Richard Leonard, 45 from Chipping, Police have said as part of the on-going investigation. The wreckage of the plain will be ... http://www.badgewars.com/police-have-named-the-two-men-killed-in-oxfordshire-air-crash-55 On Friday 15th January four people who were involved in setting up a bogus college to allow illegal immigrants to gain entry to the UK. Police raided a property in Rotherhithe in south east London where they found evidence to support the climes of the bogus college existence along with ... http://www.badgewars.com/immigration-college-scam-foiled-53 PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have made claims to the Arizona police that the two remaining giraffes that used to be owned by Michel Jackson are in neglect. The animals that were originally part of Michel Jackson’s Neverland Ranch are now being kept by Tom and Freddy ... http://www.badgewars.com/michel-jackson%e2%80%99s-giraffes-in-distress-51 At the weekend there was another killing of law enforcement officers in the US, but this one was every bit as unusual as it was tragic. Four officers were gunned down whilst working on their laptops at a café in an incident investigators are still trying to figure out the ... http://www.badgewars.com/cop-killer-possibly-shot-dead-49