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UK: Should police travel to work in uniform?
A think tank has suggested that police officers should wear uniforms on their way to and from work to increase police visibility.
Policy Exchange said that would equate to having an extra 1,200 officers on the streets in London - but the Police Federation said the idea was impractical and would make officers and their families potential targets.
Police officers have been reacting to the think tank's proposals. Here is a selection of their comments:
From the UK Police Online forum
Scouse_bobby says:
if they want me in uniform to and from work, where do I ... Read more
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Newsday, NY, USA
18 February 2006
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Cops: Slain woman mentally ill
The 65-year-old Staten Island woman shot dead by a police sergeant in the narrow hallway of her building had a history of mental illness dating back more than 30 years, according to police sources.
Stephanie Lindboe was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1973, her brother told police Thursday night, hours after she had been shot dead during a confrontation that started when she stabbed a neighbor during a fight over Lindboe's cat, sources said.
The sergeant, police have said, appeared to be justified in firing his weapon because Lindboe was several feet away from him at the time and appeared intent on attacking him. The Staten Island District Attorney's office will likely present the case to a grand jury, as is typically the case. The sergeant, a 10-year veteran, has no previous shootings on his record.
The stabbing victim, Linda Padula, 59, remains in serious condition at Staten Island University Hospital, North Site.
Police said she was stabbed eight times, including in the neck, inside the hallway of the Bay Terrace building where she and Lindboe lived in adjacent apartments.
Lindboe grabbed Padula by the hair in a violent rage, then plunged the knife into her, witnesses said.
The neighbors had been bickering for months about Lindboe's cat, Dickie, with Padula complaining that Dickie routinely urinated and defecated in the hallway. Dickie, a neutered male, was stabbed in the eye during the knife attack.
Padula told detectives who interviewed her at the hospital Friday that she did not harm the cat, a police source said. Detectives find her credible and believe that it was Lindboe who attacked her own cat.
Dickie had his left eye removed Friday, according to the Animal Care and Control Center, with a Staten Island veterinarian also tending to a throat injury suffered in the stabbing.
A spokeswoman for the animal care agency said callers have inquired about adopting Dickie, but that he now belongs to Lindboe's relatives.
Dickie would only be put up for adoption if the family did not want the cat, she said.
Lindboe's brother could not be reached for comment Friday.
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