THE star of BBC series Rent-a-Cop has seen an assault charge against him dropped.
Mr Jones, who appears in BBC series Rent-a-Cop, was charged with assault by beating after police were called to the Amazon warehouse in Darlington on June 19.
Assault charges are dropped
That's a major blow to residents as crime figures dropped significantly during the
rent-a-cop scheme.
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"There will always be trash somewhere, only due to our work, somewhere else." (3) So commented the managing director of Berliner Wache, a rent-a-cop company, on the effect of his work.
Known as Schwarze Sheriffs, (5) these rent-a-cop firms represent the beginning of the modern security industry (which accounted for a four billion euro, or 4.87 billion dollar, turnover in 2002 and employed about 200,000 employees).
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The Yates Group, which owns more than 150 nightspots across England and Wales, launched the rent-a-cop scheme in Nottingham this weekend.
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I casually strolled up to Derrick, the
Rent-A-cop, and told him it might be wise for him to do his routine bathroom check.
Zine thing
FURY erupted last night after rank-and-file police were told a controversial "
rent-a-cop" plan is to go ahead.
RENT-A-COP PLAN SPARKS REBELLION IN THE RANKS
You turn around and see another red-eyed
rent-a-cop. They're playing the zone, a clumsy, loose zone, and expect you to panic, to run back upstairs.
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TWC is and always has been more than what it pretends to be--the biggest private
rent-a-cop agency in the world.
Inman's friends and other enemies
A POLICE chief came under fire last night after he backed a controversial "rent-a-cop" plan.
The Police Federation also reacted angrily to the plans and Lothian and Borders secretary Calum Laurie said: "We are totally opposed to any kind of rent-a-cop policy.
RENT-A-COP PLAN FORCES BACKLASH
In Brazil, these include, but are not limited to, subcontracting on-duty police to public or private buildings and establishments, police officials on-duty heading private security businesses, registered and unregistered "rent-a-cop" businesses and their (often police) employees, and police and nonpolice in death squads.
In Brazil today, death squads continue to operate, paralleled by a growing "rent-a-cop" industry, with each social control entity directly "serving" different population segments to the benefit of one over the other.
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