Compared to the 2024-2025 police settlement, each force will receive an increase in funding, with Staffordshire Police receiving up to £280.7 million (a 6.5% cash increase), West Mercia Police up ...

For West Mercia there was an overall drop in crimes of 11 per cent - one of the largest falls in the country - with a total of 82,184 offences across the 12 months. Only Merseyside Police recorded ...

Marcus Meade, 39, who was a father-of-two with mental health issues was shot by an armed West Mercia Police officer in Redditch on Christmas Eve last year. His parents told ITV News Central ...

West Mercia Police confirmed the death is not being treated as suspicious. A spokesperson said: "We were called to Weavers Rise in Chirk Bank by the ambulance service shortly after 10am on ...

The West Mercia force said he improperly accessed systems between March 2012 and October 2022. The 42-year-old told the two-day hearing at force headquarters he "got things wrong" but "not in a ...

The 38-year-old was in the early stages of his training with West Mercia when West Midlands Police arrested him for the crime. An accelerated misconduct hearing yesterday (Wednesday ...

PC Ahmad Shoaib engaged in sexual activity with a 14-year-old boy in his car in a public place while off-duty, West Mercia Police said A former student police officer engaged in sexual activity ...

Fiona Wise, the barrister for West Mercia Police, told the hearing that not being aware of the force's policy was "not a defence". She said Det Con Lauder conceded he had made six breaches and two ...

The panel found Ahmad Shoaib, 38, would have been dismissed from West Mercia Police if he had not already resigned. Mr Shoaib was off-duty on 29 April 2023 when he met with the teenager in his car ...

Of the £1.8 billion total, £1.6 billion was fee-earning third-party capital, with £200 million of Mercia’s own funds. The company is precisely the sort of business the new government wants to ...

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