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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10041507/Killer-cops-children-played-near-spot-Sarah-Everard-dumped.html
An horrific crime, for which thankfully the correct sentence appears to have been passed today.
Harris's poll numbers rise as Biden's fall
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/574604-harriss-poll-numbers-rise-as-bidens-fall
Callous Wayne Couzens took his wife and children to play at the woods where he had burned Sarah Everard's body two days earlier on a family trip out.
On the way there they had stopped at a service station where he had calmly bought a Lucozade after raping and murdering her.
Hours later his two children played happily in grass and overgrowth at Hoad Woods in Kent. Just yards away was the lake where Couzens had dumped Miss Everard's burned body in waste bags.
I hope his wife and children change their name. They too are victims of this awful tragedy.
As a couple of cabinet ministers at the time said 'If they can try and fit us up what chance does a black kid in Brixton have?'
Police need taking down a peg or five, starting with Cressida Dick.
Also fire every cop who cannot pass a DBS. If you cannot be a PCC with a criminal record then you shouldn't be a copper with a criminal record.
https://twitter.com/kateemccann/status/1443552130007248897?s=21
If you ever get arrested/detained/questioned by the rozzers always have legal representation.
Never accept a caution.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58747281
He has been very Eeyore-ish in recent days about it all.
So having to reorganise our travel plans.
I live in South Yorkshire, home of the worst police force in the country, (Rotherham, Hillsborough, and Orgreave) and work (and occasionally live) in Manchester.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-58748613
Wha'daff?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/sep/29/fossilised-hell-heron-dinosaur-unearthed-on-the-isle-of-wight
NB the way in which the collectors cooperated to donate bits found at different times to the local museum to enable them to be brought together and researched for publication.
But I did think twice on reading the ordeal Ms Everard was put through. Good opportunity for Priti, as I am sure many many people normally opposed are very angry. It would be a fantastic election opportunity for her in the event of Government popularity waning.
12 officers under investigation in relation to Couzens.
But see also the paragraph about other officers in the Met accused of crimes against women.
One of the issues is the queues are spilling onto the roads and causing hold ups and accidents.
More than 200 serving police officers in the UK have convictions for criminal offences including assault, burglary, drug possession and animal cruelty, Sky News can reveal.
Forces across the country employ at least 211 police officers and PCSOs who were guilty of crimes, according to data released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The actual number is likely to be much higher, however, after just a third of forces revealed how many of their officers have criminal convictions, with many claiming it would cost too much to retrieve the information.
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) told Sky News that having a criminal record has "never been an automatic bar to joining the police" and insisted officers are vetted "throughout their service".
But Steven Smith, who was assaulted in Bristol by an officer who was allowed to keep his job, said he believes anyone with a conviction for violence should be banned from working for the police.
https://news.sky.com/story/assault-burglary-and-animal-cruelty-police-officers-convicted-of-crimes-working-for-uk-forces-12024264
Not surprisingly by Stephen Bush , after his email this morning, which was a taster for this.
'Then there are the specific failures within the police force in general and the Metropolitan Police in particular. When Couzens was charged, the Met Commissioner Cressida Dick said that “all of us in the Met are sickened, angered and devastated by this man’s crimes”.
I’m sure that’s true. Social workers were sickened, angered and devastated by the failures that led to the murder of eight-year-old Victoria Climbié at the hands of her aunt and aunt’s boyfriend in 2000. Doctors were sickened, angered and devastated by the failures that allowed Harold Shipman to murder as many as 250 people. But crucially, those failures led to serious reforms to child protection and to palliative care provision in the UK.
The murder of Sarah Everard is the story of two long-running problems in British politics: the failure to take violence against women and girls seriously, and the failure by senior leaders in too many of the UK’s police forces to acknowledge mistakes and learn from them, rather than viewing them as unfortunate and unavoidable accidents.'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/30/activist-duped-into-sexual-relationship-with-spy-wins-case-against-met-police
...The Met and NPCC accepted Kennedy’s actions amounted to a breach of those rights, but they denied that other officers, apart from Kennedy and his cover officer, knew or suspected Wilson was in a sexual relationship with Kennedy...
From earlier reporting of this and similar cases, that denial seems blatantly untrue.
My ex colleague's £100k+ fraud seems to have completely disappeared from Google, and perhaps any DBS checks..
The lad rang his dad who turned up with pretty much his entire chambers, the police visibly wilted and the QC said ultimately the police are bullies and hope no one is looking or knows the rules.
But even still, wha'daff?
Either way we'd ensure proper reform of the rozzers.
There's two types of DBS checks, both will show past convictions and cautions, the enhanced one will show any cases where convictions didn't happen.
On one occasion I was stopped entering Leicestershire from Cambridgeshire. The barricades (not quite, but almost) on that occasion were manned by the Met. On searching the car I was taken to one side and asked politely to help unload the contents of my boot into their Transit minibus. At the time it seemed like such a reasonable request if I wanted to be on my way.
I was questioned once as a suspect after the Police arrived for a fight I hadn't been involved in or even witnessed. I'd been drinking and got breathalysed (under the limit) and questioned for over half an hour (or what felt like it). I didn't once think to stop answering questions and just kept looking at the blinking red light of the camera recording the conversation on his jacket.
I never heard anything from them again after the event, so I'm guessing my answers were satisfactory/the evidence pointed another (right) way. I've no idea what would have happened had I refused to co-operate.
Single entendres on the other hand...
That said, I'm a fan of Denmark in general, but I do remember that I got called in after I'd failed to renew my residence permit once Denmark had joined the EU (I thought I was then automatically eligible, but not so). The officer said (politely) that they were considering prosecution - would I like to accept a fine, or would I prefer to take legal advice first?
We happened to know a Supreme Court judge, so I thought I'd ask him, and said I'd like to take advice and would let him know, thanks. He paused for a moment, and then said, "Oh well, let's forget it."
I wondered if he would have pocketed the fine or was just trying it on or was, on reflection, in generous mood. But whichever it was, it didn't strike me as an entirely satisfactory experience.
If only!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/30/pandemic-private-schools-pupils#comment-152221629
(I made a booboo, I meant there's 4 types of checks.)
There's the basic check, which shows unspent convictions and conditional cautions but hardly anyone runs thoses.
Sadly that means tactically Labour should simply avoid talking about it as much as possible.
More a product of the decline in Biden's rating with only 43% approving, however it could be enough to see Biden step down after 1 term and let his VP be the Democratic candidate in 2024
I had a trial yesterday where a 17 year old black girl (who had committed NO crime and has no criminal record) was grabbed and wrestled to the floor and handcuffed by two officers for “talking back” when she (correctly) said to them “you can’t do this” and asked them to step back
The officers were caught on CCTV stepping up to her right in her face (August last year - height of the pandemic) with no masks on and loudly telling her off (for something that isn’t a crime). After she backed off the third time whilst repeatedly saying “back off” they pounced.
This happened in broad daylight in Birmingham New Street station and everyone assumed the officers were in the right and a member of the public even came over to help the two officers who were sitting on top of her to restrain her.
She screamed out in pain and asked 21 times either “Why are you doing this to me?” or “What have I done?” and they didn’t reply to tell her why they were doing it or what she was said to have done.
Eventually one of them says she’s under arrest for assaulting them.
They lied throughout their evidence and said she had moved towards them aggressively and tried to hit one of them.
Two separate angles on the video show she does no such thing and is continuously backing off from them and looks scared.
Thankfully the case against her was thrown out, but quite frankly it’s theofficers who should’ve been prosecuted for assault. Had I not been able to get CCTV camera footage from the station it would’ve been her word against theirs and she would no doubt have been convicted.....
...The officers continued to assert throughout the trial that their actions were justified.
This is the problem.
This is the culture we have to deal with.
THIS IS WHY I GET SICK OF PEOPLE ASKING ME HOW I CAN “DEFEND CRIMINALS”.
P.S. A good illustration of the level of arrogance of one of the officers and their feeling that they are above the law: the Judge had to warn the officer about their conduct IN COURT and it continued so the Judge THREATENED TO LOCK THE OFFICER UP FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT.
The prosecutor, the clerk, the Judge, me - and several of my colleagues I spoke to - all of us with over 20 years experience in criminal trials - have NEVER seen an officer behave so badly that they were threatened with contempt.
Yet they are on patrol in New Street again today
If it’s any consolation our civil team are now going to take action against the police and I suspect one or both of them won’t be officers for much longer but hey - we represented the De Menezes family and no fucker lost their job when they killed a lad.
https://twitter.com/JudgeDewie/status/1443506723881422848
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2836204/amp/Convicted-drug-users-thieves-allowed-join-police.html
(I should be careful not to joke here. Given the way things are going, getting centenarians into the classroom might become DfE policy.)
PS: they need an LGV C1 licence so as I thought it was bollox. I can drive an ambulance now as I have a C1 and have had since 17.
They're writing to everyone with a HGV licence. Some people with a HGV licence are driving ambulances.
Really not sure I’d be happy driving an articulated vehicle of that weight, but apparently I’m qualified to do so! (IIRC they took away that default sometime back in the late 90s early 00s?)
If their charitable status is ended then private schools will just become educational and sporting country clubs for the children of the rich
(Unless this site is lying to me: https://drivertrainingcentre.co.uk/ambulance-driver-training/ )
It's in their interests, not yours.
So equity and fairness arguments would either mean that a regulation targeting private schools would get binned, or a number of other charities would get the chop.
*bursaries, usage of facilities for the community etc etc.