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The constables were in the Bradford West area, assisting with Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) officers. Two of them helped with reports of nuisance vehicles and also suspicious logs. The joint team discovered a blue Toyota in one of the Bradford Forster Square Shopping Parks, which had no insurance. It was seized, as a result. The third Special Constable helped seize two vehicles, both for no insurance or tax. One was a blue Volkswagen Caddy van and the other was a black Vauxhall ...

A DRIVER who killed a man in Essex has been jailed for six years and nine months after admitting manslaughter. Mark Brinkley admitted the manslaughter of Philip Burr, who was found lying unconscious at the side of the road in Potter Street, Harlow, by a Special Constable on patrol. The officer gave Mr Burr first aid while waiting for other police officers and paramedics to arrive. While officers were on scene, witnesses said they had heard a car screeching off just before Mr Burr was fo...

A DRIVER who killed a man in Essex has been jailed for six years and nine months after admitting manslaughter. Mark Brinkley admitted the manslaughter of Philip Burr, who was found lying unconscious at the side of the road in Potter Street, Harlow, by a Special Constable on patrol. The officer gave Mr Burr first aid while waiting for other police officers and paramedics to arrive. While officers were on scene, witnesses said they had heard a car screeching off just before Mr Burr was fo...

A DRIVER who killed a man in Essex has been jailed for six years and nine months after admitting manslaughter. Mark Brinkley admitted the manslaughter of Philip Burr, who was found lying unconscious at the side of the road in Potter Street, Harlow, by a Special Constable on patrol. The officer gave Mr Burr first aid while waiting for other police officers and paramedics to arrive. While officers were on scene, witnesses said they had heard a car screeching off just before Mr Burr was fo...

A DRIVER who killed a man in Essex has been jailed for six years and nine months after admitting manslaughter. Mark Brinkley admitted the manslaughter of Philip Burr, who was found lying unconscious at the side of the road in Potter Street, Harlow, by a Special Constable on patrol. The officer gave Mr Burr first aid while waiting for other police officers and paramedics to arrive. While officers were on scene, witnesses said they had heard a car screeching off just before Mr Burr was fo...

Last week’s column featured the spectacular rise from being a pupil at Sir William Borlase’s School to international fame as bandleader and dancer – Ken “Snakehips” Johnson. By 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, he was a worldwide star, but the bombs falling almost nightly curtailed the activities of most London music venues. One that was allowed to continue in business was The Café de Paris on Coventry Street. It was one of the most popular places for affluent Lond...

Vanessa Nicholls Biography Vanessa has spent most of her 20 year civil service career focusing on security and law enforcement. Her previous posts include Director of Crime and Drugs Strategy in the Home Office, a secondment to the Metropolitan Police (Met) as Strategy Director and, as part of what was Department for Energy & Climate Change ( DECC), Director for Civil Nuclear Security, Emergency Planning and Non-proliferation, as well as nuclear decommissioning, including Sellafield. Vaness...

PCSO Michael Gracey and John Raw A FORMER Special Constable and speed watch coordinator is retiring for a second time after more than 35 years on the force. John Raw retired from the force in 2014 but could not stay away, taking up a new role with the Crook Community Speedwatch Team and helping it grow from just three volunteers to a 16-strong team. The 70-year-old used to organised community meetings to set up new groups as Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator and served as a Special Constabl...

Former Chief Constable of Dyfed Powys Police Mark Collins has left his job to work in the Caribbean Mark Collins QPM has retired from the role of Chief Constable of Dyfed-Powys Police. Mr Collins retired from the role heading up the UK’s geographically largest and most rural force area and is now Commissioner of Royal Virgin Islands Police. Having started his policing career as a Special Constable with Sussex Police in 1985, Mr Collins returned to his home force in 1987 and continued to...