Despite everything you hear about he job as a police officer, I've got to say, I don't do 'scared' very often. Overall, on my day-to-day shifts as a response officer, my shifts tend to be extremely varied, and even occasionally dangerous. I get the odd adrenaline dump here and there, but scared? Not really. Read More >

Northumbria Police under guidance from the UK's Police Central eCrime Unit have arrested a teenager in Newcastle, accusing the youth of being part of one of the internet's notorious hacking collectives known as TeamPoison. Read More >

Sometimes, academic journals have the best stories. Like last week's issue of Forensic Science International, which describes how a man had a a drunken confrontation with the police and ended up with a taser dart stuck in his brain. Read More >

"Eight-six receiving Mike Delta", my radio murmurs into life quietly. I turn the volume up. Today, I'm running the Misper car, the oh-so-joyous task of looking for missing persons who rarely are missing (and occasionally aren't even persons*) had taken me into a care home, where the lady who was reporting somebody missing had been utterly aghast by the fact that the CAD operator kept rudely interrupting our conversation. It took me the best part of a cup of tea to explain that the operator wasn't speaking to me specifically, but instead to all officers. Read More >

If your only exposure to the art of compiling police composites comes from CSI or NCIS or ASDFJKL, you might think that modern law enforcement is all supercomputers and enhance machines. If only. Read More >

"So basically, you want to have your neighbour's kid arrested for splashing you with a bit of water?" I ask the man standing in front of me, more to summarise the situation in my head than to get any actual confirmation out of him. Read More >

Last week, our resident anonymous police cop was so rushed off his feet that he wasn't able to do his usual weekly story; so instead, we opened up for questions from the gallery. Today, in a super-special edition of Notes from the Front Line, Matt answers... Read More >

When encountering a tricky problem, it always pays to play to your strengths. Like a scientist from the University of California who was issued with a $400 (£250) traffic ticket for failing to completely stop at a stop sign. His response? A four-page paper describing how the ticket defied the laws of physics. Read More >

This is not a gunshot wound you'd brag about to 50Cent. In fact, this sort of injury isn't really something you'd want to tell anybody about—you do have a reputation to maintain after all. Read More >

I've been on a load of training courses and aid (that's policing large events and such), and unfortunately just haven't had the time to write up another crazy whirl-wind adventure for you guys this week. But I'll make up for it by going against my better judgement: I'm going to answer a round of questions! Read More >

Well that didn’t take long. Mess with the police and MI6 and you’ll get your arse handed to you. Two teenagers from the West Midlands have already been arrested for the embarrassing Teampoison anti-terror hotline hacking from yesterday. Read More >

Trish Vickers is a woman who went blind seven years ago because of diabetes. Instead of complaining, she's been writing—yes, literally writing—a book. Recently, however, she lost 26 pages of her novel because she didn't realise the pen she was using had run out of ink. Read More >

Last time it was an intercepted call between our good old plods and the American’s feds, but this time calls inside the Metropolitan Police have been recorded and leaked by Teampoison. If that wasn’t bad enough the MI6’s anti-terror phone line also got “phone bombed” taking it out of action too. Read More >

"Mike Delta 592 receiving Mike Delta" my radio encroaches on my rather pleasant chat with Kim in the cafeteria. Read More >

This Czech bicycle rider must have balls of steel or a lot of crimes to answer for. Otherwise I just couldn't understand why is he racing down a highway at 60mph with a police car chasing him. Read More >