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Fuck me you've gone full shitferbrainsNo I don’t believe it. The police don’t do things like that. They are not violent for no reason. He must have done something
Fuck me you've gone full shitferbrainsNo I don’t believe it. The police don’t do things like that. They are not violent for no reason. He must have done something
I think we'll be losing you soon and I have to say not a minute too earlyNo I don’t believe it. The police don’t do things like that. They are not violent for no reason. He must have done something
Step away from the threadNo I don’t believe it. The police don’t do things like that. They are not violent for no reason. He must have done something
Not far enoughStep away from the thread
I think he was being sarcastic... I hope he was.Fuck me you've gone full shitferbrains
You're a kind soulI think he was being sarcastic... I hope he was.
Of course he was -doh!I think he was being sarcastic... I hope he was.
Met detective sacked over sex and drug allegations dies in prison - Metro NewsArter was arrested on his return from a holiday to Jamaica and Las Vegas in December 2016, after police received an anonymous tip off that he was having inappropriate relationships with victims.
In December 2016, DI Arter was arrested by the MPS for alleged misconduct in public office, relating to allegations he had abused his position for a sexual purpose (APSP), and his mobile phone and iPad were seized. In April 2017, the MPS referred this matter to the IOPC and we began an independent investigation into the APSP allegations. In 2018 we opened a further investigation after analysis of DI Arter’s mobile phone and iPad downloads provided evidence, in the form of text message exchanges and photographs, of him possessing and offering to supply drugs to third parties. Both devices were also forensically tested and found to bear traces of cocaine.
In October 2018, DI Arter was arrested by the IOPC and we conducted a search of his home, where drugs paraphernalia including metal straws and mini scales were seized and found to bear traces of cocaine along with a grip seal bag that had traces of MDMA. DI Arter was taken into custody, where he tested positive for cocaine, and was interviewed under caution on suspicion of offering to supply controlled drugs to others, and corrupt or improper use of police powers for failing to utilise these powers when he became aware of other people possessing drugs. He declined to answer any questions.
In June 2020, we completed our investigation into this matter and determined that DI Arter had a case to answer for gross misconduct for breaches of the police standards of professional behaviour. We also sent a referral to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), who decided not to authorise charges.
During the misconduct hearing, the panel heard evidence that between 2016 and 2018, DI Arter purchased and consumed controlled drugs on various occasions, including cocaine and MDMA. They heard evidence of him arranging to buy drugs, discussing having taken them, and offering them to others via text messages. They heard he tested positive for cocaine use and that he attended gatherings at which controlled drugs were openly being consumed but did not report this or take any other action. They also heard he did not take action when he was aware a man he knew was providing drugs to a woman in exchange for sex.
He is believed to have made sexual advances towards at least four victims between 2006 and 2012 when he was leading a rape investigation team. (Metro)
In 2009, several years before Arter was first arrested, the rape investigation team he headed up received an award for having the best detection rate in the Met. (Metro)
Scotland Yard improved it's crime figures by pressuring rape victims to retract their statements.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said the Met’s Sapphire team pressured a woman to drop an accusation of rape made against a man who later murdered his children. A detective sergeant based at the unit in Southwark, south London, dismissed the allegation against Jean Say and he remained at large. He went on to stab his son and daughter to death while they were staying with him for the weekend in 2011.
The BBC has also been told that the Metropolitan Police "botched" an investigation into a detective inspector accused of having sex with multiple victims of rape. Four women reported that the lead officer in a rape investigation team had had sex with them. All had previously reported being victims of rape or sexual assault. Two former members of the Met's professional standards team say that forensic best practice was not followed, and the officer's phone was wiped by someone remotely after his arrest. Since then, the detective inspector has been dismissed from the force on other charges.
The Metropolitan Police declined to respond to the claims but said it had "matters to finalise" in relation to the officer - a number of years after first suspending him. It also declined to say whether it had re-investigated all rape cases he had dealt with. The Crown Prosecution Service concluded there was not enough evidence to charge him.
Did they mean his own family or the "policing family" which kept him clasped to it's bosom for so long? Either way no sympathies it seems for his victims.A Met Police spokeswoman added: "We are aware of the death of former Met officer Warren Arter in prison. Our sympathies are with his family."
Serving Metropolitan Police officer charged with sexually assaulting two children and raping adult
Serving Metropolitan Police officer charged with sexually assaulting two children and raping adult
A serving constable in the Metropolitan Police has been charged with a number of sexual offences against three victims - including two children.www.lbc.co.uk
I believe it's sarcasm, given what happened to him recently with the filth.Fuck me you've gone full shitferbrains
One of the alleged victims has claimed Lockwood indecently assaulted her in a male toilet cubicle repeatedly before moving to a storeroom at the leisure centre.
Jurors have heard it became "common knowledge" that the pair would go into the toilet among fellow lifeguards.
I just don't have the words for this one - 91 months suspended on full pay. Think that might be the record on this threadA year ago this piece of filth came up in this thread
former DI Warren Arter
A misconduct hearing had just sacked him for "purchasing, offering to supply and taking controlled drugs". (IOPC report) The press reporting on this drew attention to the fact that after he was arrested in December 2016 he was suspended but remained on full pay, until the misconduct hearing in May 2023 which sacked him. One press estimate is that he was paid £400,000 during this period. Presumably enough to buy an adequate of marching powder before finally being given his marching orders.
Yesterday it was reported that last Friday he was found dead in Wandsworth Prison. He had been remanded there last Wednesday in advance of a court appearance next month on a charge of misconduct in public office. And a better picture of the, for want of a better word, "investigation" into him began to emerge.
Arter had not originally been arrested on suspicion of drug offences.
Met detective sacked over sex and drug allegations dies in prison - Metro News
He was suspended on full pay. The IOPC statement on his misconduct hearing details what happened next:
In May last year, nearly three years later, his misconduct hearing over these drug offences finally took place.
And he was sacked. But of course all of this was entirely separate from the allegations he had originally been arrested over. Which were:
I assume this means he had been in charge of one of the Met's Sapphire Teams - it's dedicated rape investigation units until they were reorganised in 2013. The Metro story says:
We don't know which Sapphire team he was in charge of but here's a 2013 C4 news story about how the Southwark Sapphire team achieved their clear up rates. It includes a three minute C4 news report which I think is well worth watching. (Sadly I can't embed it here). It begins:
It's about the 2013 IPCC report into the Southwark unit (PDF here). It also touched on the same unit's grotesquely flawed investigations into the rapists John Worboys
(IPCC PDF here), and Kirk Reid (IPCC PDF here). And it discussed the case which had initiated this latest IPCC investigation into the unit.
Could the Met's response have been worse? Well Warren Arter illustrates that it could. Instead of just being pressured into dropping a rape allegation she could have run into one of the Met's seemingly inexaustible supply of predators who see their access to victims of crime as a smorgasbord of sexual opportunity.
So:— Arrested in December 2016 over allegations of having sex with victims of rape. Sacked six years later over other matters. Remanded to prison ninety-one (91) months later in July 2024 ahead of a trial for misconduct in public office concerning those 'inappropriate sexual advances'.
Some indication of why this all took so long can be found in a BBC report a year ago which referred to his case without naming him.
Forces failing women over police sex misconduct claims, BBC finds - BBC News (July 2023)
According to the Sun who first reported his death
Did they mean his own family or the "policing family" which kept him clasped to it's bosom for so long? Either way no sympathies it seems for his victims.
Dame Vera Baird, chair of an inquiry into Greater Manchester Police, is expected to make serious criticisms of that police force over their treatment of women in custody.
But Channel 4 News has heard from women who say a wider investigation is needed into that police force.
They say there’s a 'boys club culture' - and raise questions about the way women are treated when they make complaints about the Greater Manchester Police force:
"Report by Vera Baird reveals lack of care, with vulnerable women strip-searched or left to bleed through clothes ...
(The Baird report) examined 14 cases of 11 women and three men who had been treated unfairly by Greater Manchester police. It found wrongful arrests, a lack of care for domestic and sexual abuse survivors, and strip-searches being conducted forcefully on vulnerable women."
The trial of Michael Lockwood, former head of the police watchdog, is currently under way.
See posts here and here.
Lockwood, 65, of Epsom, Surrey, denies 17 charges for three rapes and 14 indecent assaults which relate to two 14-year-old girls 40 years ago.
Michael Lockwood: Ex-police watchdog chief denies sex claims timescale
Archived version (to avoid cookies, ads etc) here:Former local government officer, Michael Lockwood has been found not guilty of of 17 counts - three rapes and 14 indecent assaults - relating to two girls between 1979 and 1986:
Ex-police watchdog chief, Michael Lockwood, cleared of historic sex offences
Completely out of order: