Wednesday - December 02, 2009

DAMN GOOD EXAMPLE OF CRIME FIGHTING FROM TANZANIA.

First of all, we have this from here in the UK this week.
These ppl are not really serious about crime fighting.  Their interest is in reaching targets and playing social engineer.  Not that the average cop approves of it.

Police will be ordered to cut overtime by £70million

By James Slack
Daily Mail
Dec. 2,09

Ministers want to slash police overtime payments by £70million and ban beat officers from driving top-of-the-range cars.

Scores of jobs are also likely to be axed as the Home Office seeks to cut £75million from back office budgets, according to a leaked draft of a policing white paper.

Officers will be told they must slash the amount of overtime they work. The report estimates this will save £70million.

Police are likely to be furious about the loss of such a huge chunk of overtime. On average, they are paid £400million each year. Over the past decade, average payouts have spiralled from £1,500 per officer to nearly £3,000.

The Home Office wants to save money amid complaints some forces have been lavishing too much money on ‘fancy’ vehicles.

They will also be told they must all purchase the same equipment, regardless of which force they are from, and drive the same standard ‘beat car’.

This is designed to save money amid complaints some forces have been lavishing too much money on ‘fancy’ vehicles.

The review will also propose that police be given powers to charge suspects for minor crimes - a power they were stripped of in the early years of the current Government.

COST CUTTING COPS

NOW THEN, IF IT’S CRIME YOU’RE DEDICATED TO CURBING IF NOT STOPPING ...  TANZANIA HAS IT RIGHT. AT LEAST IN THIS CASE THEY DO.

PAY ATTENTION WORLD.  THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE. 

And please note ... the scum had not gotten around to actually carrying out their plan. Why? Cause the cops killed the bastards before they could.

Police shoot dead Tanzanian gunmen planning to rob luxury safari tourists
Five men who planned to rob a luxury Tanzanian tourist lodge where Roman Abramovich recently stayed have been shot dead by police,

By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
The Telegraph
Dec 2, 09

It was the latest in a series of incidents pointing to a rise in violent crime along the Tanzania-Kenya border, a region famed for its game parks which draw tens of thousands of British tourists each year.

Police laid an ambush for armed robbers close to the Gurmeti Reserve, west of the Serengeti National Park, after a tip-off, said Deus Kato, regional police commander for Tanzania’s Mara Region, on Tuesday.

The men’s intended targets were a series of £650-a-night luxury lodges and tented camps popular with wealthy visitors and celebrities.

Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea Football Club, stayed there after his trip to Tanzania in September to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Mr Kato called the incident “very rare”. But it comes soon after at least one recent confirmed armed robbery on British tourists staying in a tented camp in the Masai Mara Game Reserve in neighbouring Kenya.

The two conservation areas are part of one ecosystem bisected by the border between the countries. An estimated 60,000 British tourists safari in the Masai Mara in Kenya each year, and 50,000 visit Tanzania.

None of the tourists was seriously injured in the Kenyan attack, when armed men ransacked four tents and robbed four British tourists and an Australian family including two teenage boys. But at least £6,500 worth of money, valuables and camera equipment was stolen.

There have been anecdotal reports of several other armed robberies on both sides of the border, but details are difficult to confirm because most people linked to the tourist trade do not want to deter visitors.

A factor is likely to be the region’s prolonged drought, which is improving since recent rains, said James Sindiyo, Chief Warden in the Masai Mara reserve.

“People are desperate, some of them have robbed traders on the road to the reserve, and maybe they think they will try the tourists,” he said.

“But in fact there have been only two or three incidents this year. It is still one of the safest places to visit.”

Jake Grieves-Cook, chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board, said that the numbers of such robberies was “going down”.

“Everyone who works in the industry here has among their number one priorities the safety of all of our visitors,” he said, adding that security had been “beefed up” and rapid response procedures tightened following the Masai Mara incident in October.

The Foreign Office advises Britons travelling to Kenya to stay in tourist camps with “good perimeter security”.

In Tanzania, the FCO reports a series of attacks against tourists in the northern town of Arusha, jumping-off point for most visits to the Serengeti, but says the country is generally safe.

KUDOS, TANZANIA. WELL DONE.

MEANWHILE ,,, BACK AT THE RANCH IN CIVILIZATION ,,,

POLICE APOLOGISE OVER HANDLING OF WOMAN’S RAPE COMPLAINT, AND MAKE PAYOUT.

By Ella Pickover, Press Association

A police force paid out £3,500 in compensation to a woman after she complained about the way a rape was investigated.

The 38-year-old woman launched legal proceedings against Cambridgeshire Police after she claimed they failed to investigate her attack properly.

A force spokeswoman said a letter of apology was sent to the woman and compensation was paid to her in an out-of-court settlement.

She said one officer was disciplined for failing “to investigate a matter expeditiously”.

She said another was given words of warning after it was found that record-keeping was “wanting”.

The spokeswoman said: “Cambridgeshire Constabulary made no admission of liability in this case.

“However, a letter of apology was issued which apologised for any distress or anxiety caused and we can confirm that £3,500 was paid in an out-of-court settlement.

“The civil claim followed from a complaint that had been made by the claimant over an allegation of sexual assault.

“The record-keeping of one officer was found to be wanting and another officer was found to have failed to investigate a matter expeditiously. The first officer received words of advice and the second a superintendent’s written warning.”

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