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He said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Allan Brown and Detective Chief Superintendent Mark Shield of the London-based Scotland Yard met with members of the Constabulary's top brass recently. Both men made a number of recommendations relating to homicides. However, the ACP said he will not get a final copy of the recommendations before today, as many of them had to be re-shaped.
One of the recommendations they made is that all bodies in relation to homicides should be X-rayed before a post-mortem is conducted," said ACP Gause. "So that if a bullet is lodged inside the body, it will show up when the body is X-rayed.
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LONDON -- Jack Slipper, the Scotland Yard detective who pursued one of the fugitives from Britain's "Great Train Robbery" across many years and two continents, died Wednesday at the age of 81, police said Wednesday.
The retired detective chief superintendent was known as "Slipper of the Yard.
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IPSWICH, England - Police hunting a suspected serial killer following the murders of five prostitutes in eastern England arrested a 37-year-old man today and cordoned off a group of houses.
The man was arrested at his home in Trimley St. Martin, near the port of Felixstowe, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull said in a brief statement to reporters. He declined to say where the suspect was being held.
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LONDON - Dread mounted that the peaceful east coast of England had given birth to a new "Ripper" as police hunted for the killer of five women whose bodies were discovered in the past two weeks.
In recent days, police reported that three bodies had been found naked and abandoned around the city of Ipswich in Suffolk county. Tuesday afternoon, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull, head of the Suffolk police crime-management team, told journalists that officers had found two more bodies.
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To make their point, police are offering a $40,000 reward for information leading to Britain's first prosecution for female genital mutilation, Detective Chief Superintendent Alastair Jeffrey said.
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LONDON -- Police have questioned hundreds of motorists and pedestrians in the red-light district of an eastern England town, trying to trace the final steps of five slain prostitutes, police said Sunday. More than 400 people were questioned in Ipswich, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull said. They were specifically asked if they had seen one woman, 24-year-old Paula Clennell, whose naked body was discovered at the side of a busy road Tuesday.
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LONDON - Jack Slipper, the Scotland Yard detective who pursued one of the fugitives from Britain's "Great Train Robbery" across many years and two continents, died Wednesday at the age of 81, police said.
The retired detective chief superintendent was known as "Slipper of the Yard.
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ENGLEWOOD -- Northmont is going to be working with Englewood police to make sure students enrolled in the school district live within the district.
At the Sept. 25 school board meeting, Superintendent Gale Mabry said he has met with Englewood Police Chief Mark Brownfield and a detective to discuss a document called "living-with affidavit.
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WHITEHAVEN, England -- Derrick Bird killed his twin brother and the family lawyer, then traveled the roads he had worked as a taxi driver, shooting people -- apparently aiming for their faces -- killing 12 in all and wounding nearly a dozen before committing suicide.
Detectives Thursday were trying to answer the elusive question: What drove the 52-year-old cabbie to commit the worst mass shooting in Britain since 1996?
... why these events happened," said Detective Chief Superintendent Iain Goulding. "Our communities wan...
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That's Helen Mirren talking. She is, in contrast, the first woman I ever met who had a tattoo. Call me backward, but it was at dinner a number of years ago, back when it was somewhat unusual for elegant British actresses from the Royal Shakespeare Company to have tattoos.
Mirren is a dame who doesn't act like a Dame. Unquestionably one of the greatest actresses of our generation, she's won just about every award there is, including an Oscar and four Emmys, yet she gets down to earth with the hippest of the swingers.
... stars as Jane Tennison, the no-nonsense detective chief inspector (later detective superintendent). ...