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Police Station Theft

Nov 22

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Nothing about me happened today really apart from me upgrading to Firefox 2…but I doubt you want to know that!!

So I looked around and found the following on the Yahoo UK News website, so it belongs to them, not me…

LONDON (Reuters) – London detectives said on Wednesday they were hunting for burglars who had stolen laptops possibly containing their own pay details, along with those of some of their fellow police officers.

The crooks broke into business premises owned by LogicaCMG, the firm responsible for the Metropolitan Police’s pay and pension services, and swiped three computers containing details about thousands of the force’s staff.

Officers said the burglary, last Thursday evening, was thought to be an opportunist crime and not a targeted raid.

“A risk assessment of the data on the laptops has been conducted,” the Met Police said in a statement.

“We believe the risk of staff members falling victim to either fraudulent activity or identity theft is minimal.”

Staff were being informed and CIFAS, the fraud prevention service, was being contacted to help safeguard officers and other employees becoming victims.

One man was arrested last Friday on suspicion of burglary and has since been released on police bail.

The Met said Logica had offered its Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, an “unreserved apology”.

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First Aider called to own Emergency

Oct 11

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Well, I found this funny when I heard it!

A first aider suffering a suspected heart attack received a pager message sending him to his own emergency.

Roger Flux, 66, a volunteer community responder for Hampshire Ambulance Service, had chest pains in bed at his New Forest home.

Roger Flux an emergency first aider with Hampshire Ambulance Service at his home in Ashurst, New Forest, after being scrambled to attend his own suspected heart attack /PA

His wife called 999 as a precaution and paramedics were on the scenes within minutes.

It was then that Mr Flux got a pager message scrambling him to the emergency at his own house.

He said: “I was on call that evening and during the middle of the night I had severe chest pains right across my chest and jaw.

“In a couple of minutes the ambulance crews were here and investigating and in the meantime I asked my wife to get my response bag.

“While I was sitting down my pager went off, telling me to attend to a man with chest pains. Then I looked at the address – it was my own.”

By the time cardiac specialists at Southampton General Hospital decided it had been a false alarm, Mr Flux saw the funny side of it.

“At least it shows the system works,” he said.