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What an Incredible day at the Police Twitter Awards #PolTAwards

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It was a great honour to be able to attend the National Police Twitter Awards as a finalist and put a voice and personality behind some of officially the best tweeting cops in the United Kingdom.

The Police Twitter Awards was coined by Mike Kenworthy a great supporter of the police within the UK and across the globe.

Mike is a very positive and supportive member of the policing family who works night and day to promote the excellent work our officers do and of course their presence on Twitter.

Mike is an advocate of policing twitter accounts and always helps out where he can with the growth and support of policing social media.

The awards team is made up of Mike Pannett, Superintendent Dennis Murray, Cheif Inspector Kerry Blakeman and of course Mike Kenworthy.

They have worked around the clock to bring you the Police Twitter Awards which has been officially endorsed by Twitter, Police Oracle magazine and Renegade TV.

The award’s official got underway with a special music video produced for Alex Goodwin who is currently in America undergoing specialist cancer treatment. We wished we could have bottled the positive energy in the room and sent it over to Alex.

 

Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable took to the stage and address the awards, honouring the incredible impact of 24 hour tweeting twitter events to highlight the work of police officers along with the use of social media to find the parents of a nine-year-old girl who was found by police.

A special video was then played from Brandon Lewis who showed his support for Smile For The BBC launched by Bullshire Police Fed, Brandon Shared his love for tweeting and pulled a pun about spell checking his tweets.

The awards got underway with the winner of the best corporate account announced as @LochabSkyePol all the way from Scotland.

Rob Stevens was announced as the best individual tweeting officer. We meet with Rob a down to earth cop who talked passionately about his support for Alex Goodwin. Rob will go far in policing and rightly deserved.

The late Amanda Wood who tragically lost her life was named as best tweeting special constable in an emotional moment Amanda received a standing ovation.

A lovely PCSO going by the name of PCSO Saltash all the way from Devon And Cornwall police was announced as the best tweeting PCSO. We had the chance to meet PCSO Saltash. She is a lovely lady who will go far in policing, being engaged and very community focused.

Mike Pannett presented the award for best Horse account and which was awarded to the fantastic team Avon and Somerset mounted section.

Mike Pannett spoke of the support he has for police dogs in the UK, He recalled one of the first campaigns Police Hour supported #DontDitchTheDogs we honoured the hard work and dedicated of our police working dogs.

 

And the winner was announced as West Yorkshire Police Dogs. What a fantastic achievement.

Its West Midlands Police taking the honour this time in the best tweeting informative police account with the firearms unit.

We heard how road policing units have come a long way since parking next to panda cars half winding the window down so they don’t get too cold and asking the cops if they have the situation under control before driving off.

NW Motorway Police took the award for best tweeting roads policing account.

Harry Tangye took the award for best tweeting police Sergeant having met Harry he is passionate about policing, twitter and his community. He has hit the headlines this year for all the right reasons. Harry has a massive strength of character and a great personality.

Another worthy winner was Chris Heflin Scott who took the award for the best tweeting senior officer. Sadly Chris couldn’t make the awards However he is a fantastic officer dedicated to policing and leadership. Chris is a credit to British policing.

What an inspirational policing leader, Cheif Constable Dee Collins took the award for the Best tweeting senior officer. Dee has the personality and passion and the qualities of a great leader and is a role model for all women who aspire to be Cheif Constables.

What a great guy, Muz took the award for best informative police account. Muz has produced some crime prevention rhymes that you must head over to his Twitter account, You don’t know what you are missing.

We just knew that our friends at UKCH would take this award, They are a fantastic team and produce some of the best policing related posts we have ever seen. They aim to counter all of the negative police press.

John Sutherland what an incredible policing leader and blogger, John has officially the best policing blog of 2016. If you have not read his content he is fantastic and a great inspirational to policing.

The best tweeting air support unit went to none other than NPAS Birmingham.

With the best newcomer to twitter going too!

And the overall winner of the Police Twitter Awards 2016 is all the way from Devon and Cornwall Police Harry Tangye. Congratulations you deserved it.

Finally what an emotional moment as police dog Finn makes a special appearance at the Police Twitter Awards one week after returning to operational duties after saving the life of his dog handler. Finn took a knife to the head and nearly died to protect his handler.

That just leaves us with one final tweet to thank the team who put everything together.

Until 2017 that it from the Police Twitter Awards.

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Kingsbury Shooting three taken to hospital

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Three people have been injured following a shooting outside of a busy London Tube Station.

Daily violent headlines about london’s out of control bloodbath are hitting the headlines.

Emergency services rushed to the incident on Kingsbury High Road, Brent at around 9:45pm.

The incident is not terror related and is being treat as a gang related incident.

Twitter was flooded with reports and images of a shooting at the location.

No arrests have been made in relation to the incident.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “Police and London Ambulance Service were alerted at around 2145hrs on Monday, 20 August, to reports of shots fired in Kingsbury Road, NW9.

“Officers from Brent attended the location along with London Ambulance Service.

London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 9.43 to reports of an incident on Kingsbury Road.

“We dispatched a number of resources including the London Air Ambulance by road.

“Three patients were found at the scene and they were taken to hospital.”

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Rude note left on Ambulance while paramedics deal with an emergency

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Paramedics have returned to their Ambulance to find a rude note on the windscreen claiming they waited 45 minutes for their drive to be unblocked.

If you need to leave your house urgently please come and knock on the door of the house where the emergency is happening, and if we can we will move the Ambulance.

Have you been angered by an emergency service vehicle blocking your drive?

The Paramedics returned to their ambulance in Leicester and were urged to “have some consideration when parking?

Surely that is the last thing going through a Paramedics mind dealing with a 999 call out, oh let’s wait a moment while we park this Ambulance more considerately while someone is laid moments from death on the floor when minutes matter in a life or death situation.

Paramedics dealing with an emergency in Leicester were left a note urging them to “have some consideration” about their parking.

The note “Please have some consideration where you park the ambulance!” the note said. “This is not the first time.”

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust criticised the “rude” note and said the crew parked as “considerately as possible” in the early hours of the morning.

Lee Brentnall, paramedic and ambulance operations manager for Leicestershire, said: “It is so disappointing to see that a rude note has yet again been left on one of our ambulances.

“This upsets our dedicated ambulance crews when they are trying to help our patients and do their job.

“Leaving a note will not resolve the situation as we are unlikely to see it until we are leaving in the ambulance to take the patient to a hospital or to go to our next job.”

Mr Brentnall added: “Our crews are approachable. If you genuinely need to leave your house urgently and we are blocking your access, please come and knock on the door where the emergency is taking place.

“Sometimes we will be able to move the vehicle, for example, if we are treating a patient but they do not need both of us there at the time.

What did our Twitter followers say? 

Karen Canner tweeted Police Hour saying “We moved our car and invited an ambulance to park on our drive to easier reach our neighbour who was in need and had a skip on her driveway. would anyone be angry at a person having a medical emergency being helped? i just don’t get it.”

Silent Running said I cannot understand the mentality of people complaining, i’m sure they’d be all for it if they were the ones being saved, the selfish, non-empathetic bastards

You can block my entrance or back passage anytime

Rachel said “Erm yeah no I havnt and wouldn’t even if my car was stuck I’d wait they’d not do it unless they had no choice”

Well to be fair what kind of person would actually be angered by an ambulance blocking them in, Have we really lost the basic ability to communicate.

 

 

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Man hunt as women attacked by stranger in London believed to be suffering mental health crisis

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Update: Arrested on suspension of attempted murder.

Police urgently want to speak to Joe Xuereb who is wanted after a stranger attacked two women, they are both fighting for their life.

Joe Xuereb must not be approached he is highly dangerous, after an unprovoked random attack on two women in the street.

The two women are fighting for their lives after being attacked in the street by a stranger, and Joe Xuereb is currently a suspect and wanted by police in relation to the incident.

Xuereb is believed to have been suffering from serious mental health issues and members of the public should not approach him he is aged 27 and from Greenwich, southeast London.

The women were targeted in a “horrific” attack in Adderley Gardens in Greenwich on Sunday.

Officers were called at 12.10pm to find the victims, aged 30 and 64, suffering from injuries “consistent with a violent assault”.

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