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West Midlands Police chief scraps A19 enforced retirement plan
Economic Development
Chief Constable Chris Sims announced this week that he was ending the use of the A19 pension regulation, which has led to the enforced retirement of scores of experienced police officers
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War hero Matt Croucher defends soldier over Taliban murder
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Most highly-decorated Marine to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan believes 'the only good militant is a dead militant'
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Woman arrested after driving wrong way on M5
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Motorist held on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink or drugs on motorway in West Bromwich
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Crime commissioner Bob Jones calls for return to police authorities
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Bob Jones backed calls from Lord Stevens, the former head of London’s Metropolitan Police, for the post to be axed
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Crime Agency warning after hackers hold firms to ransom
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The National Crime Agency has issued a warning about gangs of cyber hackers who have been targeting and bribing businesses in the West Midlands.
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West Midlands firms warned of business fraud threat
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º£½ÇÊÓƵ companies counting £15.9m cost of soaring crime targeting firms
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Gary Hexley investors hit out at police conduct
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Walmley-based pensioners Gerry and Mary Lamming say their complaints to police in May 2010 were ignored
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West Midlands Police 'shocked' at sex-for-confessions claim by former inspector
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Temporary Deputy Chief Constable Sharon Rowe says force records crimes in accordance with Home Office rules
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Police offered sex to crooks for confessions, former West Midlands inspector tells MPs
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Officers manipulated crime figures by rewarding criminals if they confessed to crimes they hadn't done, including  Commons inquiry is told
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Judge praises Press for helping end 'cynical' scam of Gary Hexley and John Cooper
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Disgraced financial advisors were jailed after duping more than 200 investors out of £2m
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West Midlands Police Commissioner says public is losing confidence in force
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Police are failing to reduce crime – and public confidence is plummeting, the region’s police boss claims.
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Councils catch fraud worth £15.6 million in West Midlands
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Officials stopped 10,900 fraud scams aimed at local authorities in one year
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Businesses being blackmailed by hackers targeting company databases
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Firms paying ransom demands to cyber criminals who infiltrate IT security systems and block access to information
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Police and Crime Commissioner launches fresh criticism of own job
Economic Development
The Labour PCC launched the attack on his own website to mark the 12 month anniversary of his election to the £100,000 a year post
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West Midlands Plebgate police have 'big opportunity' to set record straight
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Two officers facing MPs' committee as Keith Vaz reveals cost of row has reached almost a third of a million pounds
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Former Ocean View director denies involvement in Spanish property scam
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Staffordshire firm accused of defrauding clients out of hundreds of thousands of pounds in Costa Del Sol scheme
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A sorry tale of a system rotten to its deepest core
Opinion
250 investors lost money when they entrusted Gary Hexley with it. He was convicted this week.
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Midland spy at the centre of Rasputin plot?
Retail & Consumer
Could the man who shot Rasputin have come from Smethwick? Chris Upton finds out.
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Chief constables refuse to back down over Andrew Mitchell ‘plebgate’ row
Economic Development
Midland police forces at odds with MPs and Government after Independent Police Complaints Commission probe
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West Mids Police Commissioner condemns Government "fast track" plans
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Bob Jones, Police and Crime Commissioner of West Midlands Police, has attacked plans to let new entrants go straight into top jobs in the police force.
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Police consider ban on super-strength alcohol
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Voluntary ban considered after similar schemes  credited with dramatically slashing alcohol-related street crime else where
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Knife crime summit to be held in wake of recent stabbings
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Meeting of the council’s social cohesion and community safety scrutiny committee called in the wake of the stabbings of teenagers Azim Azam and Joshua Ribera.
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West Midlands Police facing fresh Hillsborough disaster scrutiny
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Pressure increases over discrepancies in statements taken by officers from the region
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Violent crime up nine per cent in West Midlands - force misses all its summer targets
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Overall crime was 2.6 per cent up in the year to date and July’s figure was up 5.9 per cent
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