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Why Do I Bother?

Reading Time: 5 minutes Events from the last week or so have left me wondering “Why do I bother?” In no particular order, the sort of things that have been vexing me are; The extraordinary outcome of an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, but that is far from being an isolated incident.  In the past few […]

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Independent Office for Police Conduct

Reading Time: 2 minutes This week saw the publication of the Independent Office for Police Conduct Annual Report.   Fear not, I’m not going to subject you to a precis of all 152 pages, just some of them. I made it all the way to Page 6 before I took exception to anything substantial. Our mission, vision and values

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This Troubles Me

Reading Time: 2 minutes In fact, this troubles me greatly. THREE years ago 5 Metropolitan Police Officers stopped a motor vehicle containing a couple of athletes. I have previously written about this here and here.   The actions of the officers were scrutinised TWICE by officers from Professional Standards and nothing untoward was identified. The then Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick,

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Stop And Search, The Work Of The Devil, Right?

Reading Time: 3 minutes I wasn’t intending to write anything at all this morning, but this headline from the Grauniad changed my mind. Met police criticised for multiple errors in stop and search practice Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. The IOPC made 11 recommendations for the Met, Britain’s biggest force, for reform of its policies. “There is

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Without Fear Or Favour

Reading Time: 2 minutes Just a short post today, and then I’m off to take my meds and lie in a darkened room. Two athletes that I have never heard of got stopped by some TSG officers apparently due to the manner of driving of the car that they were in.  For whatever reason (I wasn’t there) it didn’t

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