SandraLean
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I just managed, after much ado (internet problems), to watch the BBC coverage of the G20 report which is on the home page. If it weren't quite so serious, I may have laughed.
Here we have a policeman, all offended and upset because these officers are under investigation, but their identities are being made public. Firstly, they were doing what they did very publicly indeed. Secondly, he claims that if the police had made the identification of someone they were invetigating publicly available, that would have been wrong. Indeed, it would. So why do they do it over and over again? It is now almost routine for the press to report names, photographs and video footage of named suspects, often before charges are brought, and certainly before any trial. Contrary to public conceptions, journalists, sadly, are not psychic - they have to get that information from somewhere, and the only people who have that information are ... yup, the police.
Rather than complaining that it's not fair that these officers got caught publicly abusing their power, perhaps the IPCC wants to look at the routine, accepted, and rarely questioned abuses of power that are not so public - starting with the blatant feeding of details of suspects to the media. In this country, every individual has the right to be presumed unnocent until proven guilty. Feeding the press these details is instantly encouraging a presumption of guilt. What everyone has to remember is that today's newspaper reader, or news viewer is potentially tomorrow's juror.
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black
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i too watch that clip and wanted to say that i back sandra lean's post regarding this. Shocking behaviour but it is very much real and should be stopped ! Your book is an eye opener, i'd highly recommend it.
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All good things come to those that wait!
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SandraLean
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Thanks, Black. It just makes me a mixture between mad and sad that the book ever had to be written in the first place. The guys I wrote about, and their families, were only a few of literally dozens of cases I investigated - the actual size of this problem is terrifying, and the role of the police in so many cases leaves me sick to the stomach.
I'm not saying all police officers are bad - I know officers who've given up policing in disgust at what goes on - it's just that the system is set up in such a way that even the good guys get caught up in the "bad behaviour" of others. How does an honest beat bobby, for example, deal with a superior who routinely bends the rules, and insists that the bobby does too? I know an officer who was in exactly that position. He tried to complain, and was hounded out of his job.
Once there's event he smallest bit of rot, it can't help but taint all the rest.
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Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in Eltham in 1993
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A retired police constable and a police staff member have been arrested after claims that evidence was hidden in the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry.
For the full BBC article, simply click on the headline above or navigate to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8420905.stm
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By Ella Pickover, Press Association
A senior police officer went on trial today charged with fiddling his expenses.
Chief Inspector Jonathan Baldwin, 42, from the Essex police force, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court accused of fraud relating to false mileage claims.
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Mark Carter is an openly gay policeman who won Mr Gay UK 2006
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A policeman and former Mr Gay UK winner has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a serious sexual offence.
Pc Mark Carter, 27, has been suspended from his job with West Yorkshire Police while his colleagues investigate the alleged incident in Leeds.
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By Tim Richardson • Get more from this author
Posted in Security, 29th September 2004 12:32 GMT
Six men - including a serving Metropolitan Police officer - have been arrested today concerning the alleged illegal interception of private phone calls carried out for clients of a central London detective agency
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Police are arresting people just so they can take their DNA and boost numbers on the national database, the Government's own watchdog has warned
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By Mark Hughes
Tuesday November 24 2009
A POLICEMAN who killed his police constable fiancee and then staged a car crash to make her death appear to be an accident was jailed for a minimum of 18 years yesterday after he admitted her brutal murder.
Though originally reported in the Sun, it appears the story was accurate after-all!
THE family of a policewoman who apparently died after a car crash in Bolton are awaiting post-mortem examination results — which could reveal whether she was attacked before the accident.
A cop was arrested yesterday on suspicion of killing WPC fiancée Claire Howarth, 31, and trying to disguise her death as a car smash.
Probe ... forensics experts examine BMW
CPP Cavendish Press
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2417952.ece#ixzz0apg3eWVK
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