Three people have been charged with helping police-killer Dale Cregan evade capture for two murders.
One of the UK’s top police chiefs has admitted that the “war on drugs” has failed, and we need to legalise class A drugs such as cocaine and heroine to strip power away from criminal gangs.
Mark Duggan, the shooting of whom by police in August 2011 triggered the London riots, was part of a criminal gang and involved in gun and drug crime according to a senior police officer.
Police chiefs have proposed the idea of privately-run drunk tanks to deal with the issues of alcohol-fuelled disobedience and disorder across Britain’s town centres on Friday and Saturday nights.
Every year the Notting Hill Carnival in London brings together thousands of revellers for a two-day street party, and the police are certainly not ashamed to join in with a bit of the fun…