{"id":346876,"date":"2018-02-05T10:36:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T09:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/britains-first-private-police-force\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:36:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T09:36:32","slug":"britains-first-private-police-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/britains-first-private-police-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s First Private Police Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The country\u2019s first \u2018private police force\u2019 is investigating hundreds of crimes that regular officers are too busy to look at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A firm led by former Scotland Yard senior officers has successfully prosecuted more than 400 criminals and is now carrying out murder inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">TM Eye, which has a 100 per cent conviction rate, is thought to bring more private prosecutions than any organisation besides the RSPCA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The company, the country\u2019s first de-facto private police force, is operating against a backdrop of rising crime rates and police budget cuts. Its activities include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\">A service called \u2018My Local Bobby\u2019 costing wealthy households up to \u00a3200 a month each for guards to patrol their streets;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\">Three high-profile murder investigations that police have been unable to complete, including one case dogged by allegations of corruption and cover-up;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\">Help in cases of rape, missing persons, burglary, theft, stalking and blackmail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Co-founder Tony Nash, an ex-Metropolitan Police commander, said: \u2018This is going back to Dixon of Dock Green to a degree. It\u2019s what people want.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018There is no substitute for going out and knocking on doors. But with the current state of finances, police are solving cases behind their desks and that has become the culture.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In the past two years the company has brought successful private prosecutions against 403 criminals for fraud, intellectual property theft and other offences. A total of 43 were jailed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The company, staffed by retired detectives and cyber-crime experts from Scotland Yard, the National Crime Agency and GCHQ, is now expanding its services beyond predominantly financial investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It comes as police chiefs admit they do not have the money to investigate high- volume crimes such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/no_author\/britains-first-private-police-force-has-caught-400-criminals-with-a-100-per-cent-conviction-rate-after-taking-on-cases-regular-officers-are-too-busy-to-look-at\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s first \u2018private police force\u2019 is investigating hundreds of crimes that regular officers are too busy to look at. A firm led by former Scotland Yard senior officers has successfully prosecuted more than 400 criminals and is now carrying out murder inquiries. TM Eye, which has a 100 per cent conviction rate, is thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}