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Chomping at the Bit

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I was desperate to post about this subject matter but I thought I would let the dust settle before opening my gob and maybe putting my big foot in it. My issue today is about the South Wales matter involving the retired cops taken to court for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and ancillary offences because it was alleged they fabricated evidence against men subsequently found not guilty of a local murder. It matters not to me whether they were guilty or innocent. I would like to think that they completely innocent but the case is a classic example of the Noble Cause attitude of investigations of Police Officers.

You may disagree that the result was the right result but, being magnanimous, I would have hoped that a jury had found them not guilty rather than a judge on a point of law. However, the point of law serves to prove my assertion that, when police officers are in the frame suspected of offences, the uPSD tasked with investigating them is tainted against investigation and relies upon prosecution of the individual.

The question to be asked is, “Why else would the uPSD investigators deliberately destroy evidence which the defence believed and the judge believed would have allowed a fair trial to be heard? I’ll leave you all to answer that question yourselves.

There are too many cases where the officer ends up in court to find a judge dismissing the case at the outset or before the matter gets any where near a jury. This matter only cost about £30 million. I ask that politicians, reporters, members of the public and decent people stand up and take notice. If there are bent cops out there we want them arresting convicting and sacking. However, we don’t want them cocked up by errant and misguided stormtroopers of ACPO and other senior ranks because they believe that the public supports their stance.

Men Behaving Badly

Remember John, our sacked colleague who was the victim of 18 incidents of domestic violence only to defend himself, get convicted and then be sacked. His story can be read here if you wish to view it. Last week, it appears that his wife, who he has had nothing to do with for over two years except through solicitors and divorce court proceedings, has got her dad to photograph the clothing on his mum’s washing line in her back garden! The reason for it is that his wife erroneously believed he had police uniform hanging there drying.

Firstly, John doesn’t live with his mum. Secondly, the washing belonged to his sister. Thirdly, wife’s dad was copped taking the photo’s by a neighbour who confronted him. The local police attended and did a pretty good job in fairness. They got dad to admit his part in the debacle and the fact that his daughter was so insistent on him obtaining the evidence that he felt obliged to take action. An example of her obsession with John, perhaps or does she still want to hurt him just a little bit more?

How reassured John felt, however, when he received a letter from a senior officer in the relevant force (that sacked him) outlining that the matter was being treated as a domestic incident and a specialist unit were now available to him should there be a repeat performance. Unfortunately, it is 18 incidents and one sacking too late.

Still hanging in for a criminal case review.

 

Aaaah Bless!

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Today’s blog is an actual representation of just how petty and narrow minded our uPSD are. It involves a colleague who for a reason only known to himself makes four anonymous telephone calls over a two day period to a female acquaintance enquiring if she wanted to have an affair. A second whammy in this incident is that he used his police telephone to make all four calls. Once challenged he fully admits his role in the matter. His head was in a bad place and he was completely stressed out from long hours at work and pressures of supervision because he was of rank.

Without his admissions then I doubt that there would be any case against him and certainly if there was, his admissions cut short the investigation by the local divisional police by weeks if not months. Also negated the requirement for potentially expensive telephone enquiries being done undere the RIPA legislation. So, over to the uPSD who were informed that a cop had acted like a prat. How disappointed they were when they told me that our colleague was not going to be prosecuted for his misdemeanour following an adjudication by the CPS who had looked at the evidence in the case to arrive at their decision. The next step, surely, is to give him a final written warning and have him resume his very responsible role as a competent and well respected police officer of rank.

That would be too simple for our jaundiced uPSD. Our heroic uPSD prosecutor investigator, following representation by me, believed our colleague to be a serial sexual predator!!!!! What? That’s right, in my force four anonymous telephone calls to a female asking for an affair makes you a serial sexual predator. The uPSD must be right because the uPSD said she was an Inspector and knew best. I nearly fell off my chair. As a detective I think I am qualified to comment on what attributes a serial sexual offender possesses and it certainly isn’t someone who acts totally out of character for 2 days in his life. After all, judging by some of the other carryings on by the senior ranks they must be major perverts!

The sad part of this case is that 19 months later…….yes you read it right…….19 months later our colleague, facing an uncertain future, realising the bias against him and pre-conceived notions about him as a person, got a job earning £3000 a year less than he was on for his rank but provided with a company car, permanent weekdays, no shifts and certainly no weekends and so resigned his post in my force. A sad loss of a very good ranking police officer with the respect of his colleagues and the skills and abilities to get the job done efficiently and competently. He signed his resignation in the presence of a senior officer on his division and asked me to deliver it to our uPSD Inspector.

As Defined by uPSD

I have to report that the uPSD Inspector refused to take the resignation form from me because it had not been signed in her presence. She was gutted by the outcome believing that I had somehow been complicit in preventing her from complete gratification and exposure of a sexual deviant.  She further lambasted me for allowing our colleague to resign before she could get him to a misconduct tribunal (by the way the matter was progressing probably in the next 6 to 12 months) and stated that she was disgusted with me, “After all you are a policeman first.”

“No Ma’am. I’m a Detective………”

Result of incivility report in due course!

The Final Curtain

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I have been a bit tardy lately, largely due to the pressures of work I face. However, I have two bits of interesting news to impart. The first is that John, who features in the post of 7th June 2011 called “Men Behaving Badly????” has now submitted an appeal to the Criminal Case Review Commission. He knows it is a long shot but it is the only shot he has.

Many people who know him are of the opinion he was badly done to not only by the investigating force but also by the judiciary and his own force. A man who is a victim of regular and concerted domestic violence, 18 occasions of which he reports to the job, has photographic evidence of bite marks on his back, bruises to his arms and body, has colleagues who saw a stab wound from an eating fork, should be allowed to defend himself

Unfortunately, one bad investigation later, John is convicted of being reckless in his use of self defence. Clearly the magistrates did not understand the R-v-Beckford stated case quoted to them. We now know that Social Services were in possession of overwhelming evidence against him at least 4 weeks before he was ever interviewed by the police!! The evidence was so overwhelming that all the professionals including the investigating police officers in the meeting came away knowing that on his return to the police station he was to be charged. Why was he interviewed and why did he spend a further 8 hours in custody? I don’t know but it seems a bit suspicious to me. There are several other areas of difficulty which have been reported to the CCRC so we wish him good luck with his appeal.

New Front

On a new front, a former colleague is now in the process of trying to get an out of time Judicial Review of his debacle. His uPSD investigation team, quite simply, deliberately misrepresented the reality of his grievous bodily harm interview by neglecting to point out that the injury subject of the grievous bodily harm was caused by a car crash. Even more sinister is the fact that they knew this fact before the interview for GBH because the doctor treating the “victim” told them so in a statement, conveniently not disclosed to our former colleague, his Federation Rep not his legal representative. Mr NCC has the evidence in his possession and no-one has been to see it. The point in question is this fabricated excuse for an interview was then used in a subsequent misconduct trial where the officer was sacked for excessive use of force. Without the interview was there any evidence? Only the word of a drug fuelled, burgling car thief who provided a statement which was a pack of lies to the uPSD. Why should we worry about the truth when the uPSD have an ulterior motive to the benefit of us all………… apparently!

We believe this to be a crime but the relevant force refuse to investigate. The IPCC hide behind the Police Reform Act and both organisations use delaying tactics to defeat the gathering of evidence. For example, the relevant Police Force is now at day 96 of the Data Protection Act request that they are required to complete within 40 days. They have originally denied the existence of certain information and then suddenly found it when challenged with identities of persons known to have the  information. How about an ACC who carried out a full review of the case but failed to notice that his own uPSD may have acted corruptly? If the courts won’t help us then it may have to be the press. I will keep you posted.

Noble Cause Corruption!!

No, I’m not dead just angry!!!

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No jokey images today. Just words!!!!!!!!

I know I have been quiet and appear to have gone walkabout recently but, as always, there is a reason. Recently, I complained to the IPCC and a police force in this country that officers from their uPSD acted corruptly in an investigation which led to the sacking of an officer for excessive use of force. I have provided an account of the evidence I have in my possession which asks serious questions of the investigators, their superiors, the IPCC and a couple of ACPO idiots, all of which have had a direct involvement in this matter whether by being an investigator or a reviewer of the matter.

The IPCC have hidden behind their now famous “It’s got nothing to do with us” line (courtesy of the Police Reform Act 2000) which they espouse every time they get an allegation they cannot make significant publicity out of. I do ask the reader to note that they required no such encouragement when they announced their investigation into the phone hacking matter which they completed in world record time. However, I shall have my day in the public arena with them.

The evidence I have is a concern as the best it can be construed is a deliberate misrepresentation of the truth. Personally, I think it was a deliberate Noble Cause Corruption. That is because I have other anecdotal evidence about other matters so I know how the uPSD works. As I have now got someone looking into the matter in the force concerned I chose to wind my neck in for a bit.

Only, I have just heard something which made me angry. Angry because it is typical of the incompetent and imbalanced view you very often get in the hierarchy of a uPSD. Today I learnt that a particular inspector had been allocated the enquiry to check the veracity of my allegations. I know the inspector who I do not consider to be in the top half of my competence table in the force let alone the uPSD. Anyway, they deserve a chance. An informed source then gets in touch with me. The inspector has been overheard questioning people about the issue, one of which was a federation representative.

The Inspector started on the fed rep by telling him that the enquiry was a joke and that the officer deserved sacking, after all had the fed rep seen the video coverage? Why does the officer want his job back? The inspector singularly fails to understand that the officer provided his justification as to why he felt it necessary to use some open palm strikes on a violent and dangerous prisoner. The inspector, displaying all the necessary qualities of Noble Cause Corruption, believes that the right result has been achieved and b*llocks to the way the uPSD achieved it.

I have news for the Inspector. This news is my calming measure as it provides a balanced and open viewpoint. Procedurally, a deliberately, criminally flawed investigation which achieves a result considered to be the right result is just as bad as the action that it purports to challenge. It is not for the investigator to hold the views you hold and therefore you prove your incompetence to me and justify my opinion of your abilities. I have the ace card because I have the opportunity to take this matter to the press to have the public debate I think it deserves and I consider my professionalism in giving both you and the IPCC ample opportunity to investigate my allegations will prove my integrity.

Oh, by the way, the officer should not have been sacked for defending himself and other officers in the way he did. Put simply, we all know his face did not fit!!

Oooops! Open Mouth and Engage Brain

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I noted a story from Greater Manchester which I have been monitoring over the last couple of days. It is the story of a 53 year old delivery driver called Philip Hulmes who, tragically, died shortly after being tasered by local cops. Of course the Daily Wail Mail decided to quote the voice of the people namely a charity called Inquest. This charity supports families of individuals who have died in contentious circumstances in police custody.

Helen Shaw from the charity said police should not act as if they are exempt from punishment when making arrests. She continued ‘For too long there has been a pattern of cases where inquest juries have found overwhelming evidence of unlawful and excessive use of force or gross neglect yet the police do not seem to have learnt the lessons from these previous deaths. Whilst we await the outcome of the inquests and investigations into these recent deaths it is imperative that the police are reminded that they cannot act with impunity.’

A Bastion of Truth and Reality.......NOT!

Ms Shaw is something special. Despite trying to be magnanimous in her delivery of the speech she somehow manages to insinuate that the police have committed some form of criminal offence. Do you agree? I wonder where she gets her assumption of guilt from? Perhaps, it is to satisfy the various groups who contribute almost £1/2 million to the organisation including £60,000 from London Councils. Is it a coincidence that it was the Wail who promoted their rubbish, that is the newspaper who should have a mission statement of “why let the truth get in the way of a good story?”

Anyway, I popped over to the Manchester Evening News tonight and found that the post mortem on Mr Hulmes has revealed that he died from stab wounds. You see, he was being tasered by the officers because he was stabbing himself and they were trying to save his life by incapacitating him. Something Ms Shaw plainly failed to consider or even wish for. If she’d actually bothered to keep her gob shut for only 24 hours or so she would not have finished the day with one of her great size seven feet stuck in it.

Ahhh but then she would not have got a mention in the media. I won’t provide a link to this crap but take it from me they have the most narcissistic front page of any website I have ever seen. Each and every newspaper reference to them is publicised on their home page and your taxes are paying for it. If only they were balanced and objective they may be taken seriously by somebody.

Any takers?

Stand Up for Arbitrary Application

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An “Old Timer” told me in the first couple of weeks of service that, “You’re never as close to going to prison than when you put on a police uniform.” I didn’t know what he meant……then! What is it about a police uniform that means that absurd prison sentences are handed out for offences which non police offenders, either get non custodial sentences or don’t even get charged? Take this story in the national press.

I refer to a story about former Lancashire Police Sergeant John Cragg who has recently resigned from Lancashire Police following the discovery of him having an affair with a victim of crime. Not only that, the Judge in the case was so offended that he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for the crime of Misconduct in a Public Office. Now, Mr Cragg may well deserve all he gets. Apparently a number of serious cases were discontinued by the CPS due to the fact that he was undertaking this affair and that is not good for anybody.

However, I wonder how it is that a cop gets three years for sh*gging on duty whilst a politician of large girth bonks his secretary across his desk which does not even merit an investigation. Or perhaps, a Conservative Lord takes advantage of a vulnerable lady who comes to his political surgery for help and assistance yet ends up being a notch on his bed post. Don’t believe me then check my previous blog about Lord Strathclyde.

How about Dr David Lomax who worked as a psychiatrist and clearly dealt with some of the most vulnerable people as part of his normal daily duties. What happens to him when he sh*gs one of his patients on the floor of his office whilst a Women’s Institute Deputation waits outside? Well he faces a misconduct charge at the General Medical Council and may lose his job. Hang on a minute! The Police Sergeant has sex with a vulnerable but consenting adult and gets 3 years imprisonment and loses his job whereas the psychiatrist faces a panel where he might lose his job and the politicians, well, they continue to be politicians. Where is the sense in this? Can someone justify this double jeopardy to me?

Now, Noble Cause does not believe that officers who are guilty of criminal offences should be allowed to get away with committing crimes. Nor do I believe that officers who commit acts of such crass idiocy should be allowed to remain in the police but I do believe that the laws should be applied arbitrarily to all sections of the community. Public officials such as politicians and ACPO senior officers should face the same consequences when their actions mirror those of the former sergeant who now is residing at Her Majesty’s Pleasure for the next three years. It should also be the same for those others in public life with a responsibility for vulnerable people. A sentence which ranks the former Sergeant on a par with the original sentence of the Baby P child killers. The Judiciary are so out of touch!

Look after your jobs by keeping it in your pants!

Time to Stand Up and be Counted

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I have just seen a short film on Sky News about the riots in Manchester. This short footage taken at night and using street lamps, show a number of riot-clothed officers running along a street. It then becomes apparent that they are running to intercept a number of youths who were running away from another area of the riots but unfortunately, for them, they ran into these cops. How great it was to see a bit of summary justice dished out. A couple of baton strikes, a gentle poke with the foot and a couple of rioters rioted no more. It was also gratifying to see one rioter run into the path of another who was riding a pedal cycle and they both became a cropper. Let’s hope they broke something not attached to the bike

The only problem was that the inference of the sky news presenter, that bird with the auburn hair, seemed to indicate that the cops had somehow done something wrong. What in heaven’s name do the media want? Do they want the police to police or do they want them to watch while the country burns? The auburn one stated after the clip was shown that they would report the comments of Greater Manchester Police once they had received them. Only, I don’t expect they will if it is my telephone they happen to ring because I would tell her to wind her neck in and that I think they got off lightly.

This got me contemplating, I really hope that the Command at GMP and the other affected forces around the country show their officers some support. They need to be resolute and to not give a flying f*ck about what the press think or how the reactions of the officers come across on the television because every body I have spoken to recently thinks that a few sore heads would be just desserts. Pain is a great way to stop rioters rioting and we all know that the expectation of it is a great way of preventing further disorder. That and rain, of course!

However, members of the public need to play a part. Too often I have seen Police Officers convicted of assault when undertaking their duties. Their actions being warped by a smart-arse barrister and being received by an unqualified and gullible jury who seem intent on letting the criminal get away with it.

It is vital that the law abiding citizens of this country stick together and don’t give it up to the rampant criminal.