the cops

[Slothrop]

It's alright, though, I'm sure it'll turn out they didn't do anything wrong.

 

[Sectionfive]

acted in good faith

 

[john eden]

Lessons to be learned.

 

[IdleRich]

Weird how Smiley Culture just stabbed himself like that eh?

 

[crackerjack]

Weird how Smiley Culture just stabbed himself like that eh?

And then wiped the knife clean of prints - something that none of this week's reports seem to have mentioned.

Although old reports did say his DNA was on it, for what that's worth...

 

[crackerjack]

Perverting the course of justice.

Gross incompetence / failure to correctly allocate resources to an investigation.

Libel.

Fraud.

Those in 2nd line aren't crimes though - presumably just disciplinary issues.

On libel, do you mean the OTR briefings they were said to have been giving that Brooks might have been involved?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Weird how Smiley Culture just stabbed himself like that eh?

And how Mark Duggan managed to shoot a cop with another cop's gun without ever touching it.

 

[hucks]

What about Norman fucking Bettison? Has there been a bigger cunt employed in British public service in the last 30 years? Harold Shipman maybe comes close.

 

[john eden]

Those in 2nd line aren't crimes though - presumably just disciplinary issues.

On libel, do you mean the OTR briefings they were said to have been giving that Brooks might have been involved?

Fair enough, but I doubt they will actually end up being disciplinary issues anyway.

And yeah I suspect there will be internal or external documents which are libelous about Duwayne Brooks. Not that anything will come of it.

This get us into the interesting area of police crime. When citizens commit crimes they are tried in a court of law first and foremost. When cops commit crimes it starts as an internal matter, for some reason.

 

[crackerjack]

Police statement due some time in 2014:

Obviously officer E7 has suffered a terrible and stressful ordeal and the Met welcomes his complete acquittal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/05/azelle-rodney-death-metropolitan-police

 

[Mr. Tea]

How can anyone claim with a straight face that the IPCC is 'independent' when it's administered by the same bloody department as the police themselves?

 

[Sectionfive]

The MET have something like 70 Press Officers. They aren't compelled to appear or cooperate with their own internal investigations.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Cop who smashed disabled pensioner's car window gets £440,000 payout.

(The pensioner got twenty grand, in case you were wondering.)

Baillon, a police officer for 16 years, eventually left and set up a woodcraft business that makes decorative reindeer and other products .

Still, as well as end's well, eh?

 

[NATO]

An internal inquiry cleared PC Baillon...

 

[crackerjack]

Cop who smashed disabled pensioner's car window gets £440,000 payout.

(The pensioner got twenty grand, in case you were wondering.)



Still, as well as end's well, eh?

But the other police were mean to him.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Blogger 'asked' by police to take down sarcastic 'reasons to vote for UKIP' tweet.

Woman stabbed by neighbour after reporting stalking behaviour on 125 occasions.

Intimidating someone into refraining from a completely legal act of political expression and then failing to lift a finger to stop a woman being attacked by the neighbourhood psycho. Fuck these pricks, seriously.

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

Man pepper sprayed by Sussex Police drowns in Hastings lake
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-27485138

 

[crackerjack]

Bit of a Nixon-to-China moment. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...on-home-secretary-reform-government-intervene

 

[john eden]

Yeah you know the cops have properly fucked it up when the Tories are laying into them the year before an election.

 

[DannyL]

Can't help but wonder if this is about Plebgate and nothing else though. Hillsborough - does that really count for May? Especially as it was all done at the behest of a Tory government.