Filth by name. . .

[GarveyLives]

Having previously admitted sexually assaulting a six-year-old child while on duty, former Greater Manchester Police officer PC Dean Dempster is back in the news after admitting further offences related to the sexual abuse of children:

Ex-Greater Manchester Police officer admits more sex offences involving 4,016 indecent images of children

(Source: as stated in image)​

Yesterday at Liverpool Crown Court, former PC Dean Dempster of Greater Manchester Police was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment, with an extended licence period of five years and requited to sign the sexual offenders' register for life, after he sexually touched a vulnerable six-year-old girl while responding to a disturbance while on duty in Oldham on 29 December 2023.

Former PC Dean Dempster was also later found to have downloaded hundreds of indecent images of children over a period of two years, and had superimposed his face on to some of the images.

It became apparent that before his arrest, former PC Dean Dempster had deleted some material and applications from his personal mobile phone. A search was undertaken at his home and a number of items were recovered, including another iPhone, a bundle of four pairs of folded children’s underwear, shredded underwear in a bag, a disc of images, and two hard drives.

Former PC Dean Dempster's mobile phone and iPad were found to contain 104 indecent images of children graded as category A – the most serious – including 30 pseudo images of that level as well as 440 category B images, including 129 pseudo images, and 2,472 category C images, including 39 pseudo images.

A large number of the pseudo images had been superimposed to depict former PC Dean Dempster with children,. and examination of his devices suggested that he had been downloading indecent images of children from 15 December 2021 to 29 December 2023.

 

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"A chief constable has apologised to black communities for "institutional racism" within her police force.

Launching a Race Action Plan, Amanda Pearson said black people in Dorset were "over-policed, under-protected [and] under-represented" ...

'Black people are over-policed' says chief constable

Dorset Police: Letter to our Black communities​

 

[GarveyLives]

Two serving Metropolitan Police officers have each been charged with four counts of sexual assault on a woman while off duty.

PC Jerome Beasley and PC Luke Robinson, both of whom are attached to the Central West Command Unit which covers Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster, are accused of attacking a woman at a venue in London's West End on Sunday 21 April 2024.

PC Jerome Beasley and PC Luke Robinson are both currently suspended from duty and are scheduled to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 20 November 2024.

 

[equationgirl]

There's this one...

Buckingham Palace: Armed PC sacked over lost bullet

Stephen Cotgreave lied for eight days about losing a bullet in the grounds of the palace.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[edcraw]

The whole undercover cops thing seems an absolute disgrace but this instance just seems like an abusive relationship rather than actually trying to gather any evidence. Surely there needs to be prosecutions for some of this.

Undercover officer rekindled relationship seven years later, inquiry told

‘Rob Harrison’ reappeared in woman’s life in 2014, before disappearing again

www.theguardian.com

 

[equationgirl]

Indeed edcraw I think you're right. That guy clearly abused his relationship with the woman.

There's also this one -

Met officers under criminal investigation over road death of pregnant woman

Officer investigated over death of woman and her unborn baby after collision with unmarked police car

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lurdan]

Former Bradford police officer facing three misconduct charges in court

A former West Yorkshire Police officer is due to appear in court over his alleged misconduct.

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk

Former PC Declan Middleton was given a two year sentence at Leeds Crown Court today after being found guilty of two counts of misconduct in public office back in October.
Following an IOPC investigation the CPS authorised charges. Middleton then resigned. An accelerated misconduct hearing in December 2023 found he would have been sacked had he not done so and he was placed on the College of Policing Barred List.

Officer saw vulnerable women wanting police help as 'easy sex' - Yorkshire Evening Post
Former West Yorkshire officer found guilty of having inappropriate sexual relationship with victim of crime - IOPC (Oct 22nd)

IOPC:

Our investigation established that the former officer visited the woman’s home address on 26 May 2020 to obtain a witness statement and provided his personal phone number for her to contact him on. Two days later PC Middleton returned to the woman’s home in plain clothes and they had consensual sex. In the following week, PC Middleton continued to send messages of a sexual nature and attended her address on more than one occasion. After the woman tried to distance herself from the officer, the court heard PC Middleton sent messages to ask she did not disclose their relationship to anyone. (...) Evidence we gathered showed that former PC Middleton abused his position as a police officer by engaging in a sexual relationship with a woman who he met after attending a domestic violence incident. (...) Data retrieved from PC Middleton’s phone provided evidence he had sent inappropriate messages to two other women he met during the course of his duties.

Yorkshire Post:

(...) at the end of July, he was called to another woman’s house who had contacted the police over an allegation of harassment. She later said she felt he was flirting with her when he arrived and she said it was “like a date”. Again, they swapped personal numbers and exchanged hundreds of messages which the court heard were both “flirtatious and sexual”. He was also in contact with a third woman. (...) The woman both later said they had lost trust in the police as a result of Middleton’s behaviour, with one saying she felt like an “unpaid prostitute”.

As one (cell) door closes others swing open invitingly...
Ex-Sussex Police officer to face rape and sexual assault charges - IOPC

IOPC:

A former Sussex Police officer is due to make his first appearance in court charged with two counts of rape and one of sexual assault, following our investigation. PC Christopher Mallet, 40, who was a police constable based at Horsham, was off-duty in May 2019 when it is alleged he raped and sexually assaulted a woman who he had met through a dating app. He will appear at Guildford Magistrates’ Court on 26 November.

Mallet had been sacked in 2019 after a misconduct hearing about other matters, held in private, but revealed along with others by the Brighton Argus
Sussex Police officers kicked out in secret by chief constable - The Argus

According to his entry on the Barred List:

Subject is a recruit constable. It is alleged that he has placed for sale on eBay a warrant card holder belonging to Sussex Police. While on duty, the subject has made access to Niche records relating to close associates x 2. There is believed to be no policing purpose for these checks. While on duty, the subject has made access to Niche records relating to close associate. There is believed to be no policing purpose for this check. On or around 8th April 2019 PC Mallet completed an application form for a new warrant card holder claiming falsely that his existing warrant card holder was faulty. In his police interview in relation to the sale of the warrant card holder on ebay PC Mallet claimed that an officer of ACU advised him that once the warrant card holder was handed back that would be the end of the matter. This was a lie. On 24th April 2019 his Inspector required PC Mallet to hand to him the warrant card holder which he had put up for sale on ebay. PC Mallet gave him a different one.

 

[ska invita]

wtf?? madness

Dispersal order across city amid reports of youths 'gathering to cause trouble'

The order, signed by a senior police officer at 12.13pm today, gives Greater Manchester Police extra powers to tell people to leave the city and lock them up if they refuse

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[DaveCinzano]

The whole undercover cops thing seems an absolute disgrace but this instance just seems like an abusive relationship rather than actually trying to gather any evidence. Surely there needs to be prosecutions for some of this.

Undercover officer rekindled relationship seven years later, inquiry told

‘Rob Harrison’ reappeared in woman’s life in 2014, before disappearing again

www.theguardian.com

To be clear, ‘Rob Harrison’ AKA Boogie Boy AKA Boogie Knight AKA HN18 was deployed as an undercover police officer 2004-2007.

He posted here on Urban75 from 2004-2009.

He pursued ‘Maya’ for a sexual relationship from 2006-2007, when he disappeared.

He tracked her down after his deployment ended and whilst still using his undercover identity pursued her again from 2014-2016 - not just after his tasked mission had ended, but...

• After the unit which tasked him, the Special Demonstration Squad, had been disbanded in 2008
• After the initial public furore about undercover political policing first broke in 2011
• After the initial internal police investigation into the SDS (Operation Soisson/Herne) has been set up in 2011
• After the first two Herne reports were published (July 2013 and March 2014)
• After the announcement of the setting up of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (March 2014)

Having in August 2014 got back in contact with ‘Maya’ he persuaded her to leave her partner of five years, and in February 2015 initiated sexual contact whilst still using his undercover identity, before disappearing again, only to email her again in 2016.

ALL WHILST THE WHOLE TOPIC WAS OUT IN THE PUBLIC EYE AND BEING INVESTIGATED.

100% normal and definitely not troubling behaviour in the slightest.

 

[GarveyLives]

Following a trial at Southwark Crown Court, serving Metropolitan Police officer, PC Lewis Rollins, who is attached to their Central West Command Unit, has been found guilty of assaulting a woman while he was off-duty.

The trial followed an investigation following an incident on 18 May 2024, when officers received a report of an assault inside an address in Balham. On arrest, PC Lewis Rollins made attempts to lie about his identity.

At the same trial, he was found not guilty of intentional suffocation and actual bodily harm, relating to a separate victim.

PC Lewis Rollins will be sentenced in March 2025.

The Metropolitan Police's Directorate of Professional Standards is now "progressing a misconduct investigation which remains ongoing".

 

[GarveyLives]

(Source: as stated in image)​

The Acting Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, Deputy Chief Constable Jim Colwell has been suspended for alleged "professional standards breaches" after being served with a gross misconduct notice over allegations that he used his work mobile phone to exchange messages of a "personal nature".

Deputy Chief Constable / Acting Chief Constable Jim Colwell is, in turn, Acting Chief Constable because the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, Will Kerr was suspended in July 2023 as he was facing criminal investigation into 'serious allegations of sexual offences'.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Fucking ridiculous. The previous bloke has already been suspended for longer than he was in post in the first place, on account of sexual assault allegations. Now his replacement is on gardening leave as well.

They might as well let me have a go at running the force. I know fuck all about coppering but I can hold down a job for more than six months without creating a professional standards investigation.

 

[Pickman's model]

Fucking ridiculous. The previous bloke has already been suspended for longer than he was in post in the first place, on account of sexual assault allegations. Now his replacement is on gardening leave as well.

They might as well let me have a go at running the force. I know fuck all about coppering but I can hold down a job for more than six months without creating a professional standards investigation.

I think you'd create dozens of professional standards investigations as you tried to cleanse that augean stables

 

[DaveCinzano]

I think you'd create dozens of professional standards investigations as you tried to cleanse that augean stables

Just ask Nick Gargan

 

[GarveyLives]

When former firearms officer Rebecca Kalam won her sex discrimination case against West Midlands Police, the force said it had "worked hard to improve culture, standards and the working environment". But three officers who supported her complaints are themselves taking the force to tribunals, claiming they've been victimised for speaking up. And Rebecca Kalam says officers she reported for offensive and predatory behaviour haven't been held to account:

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A former high-ranking police officer has accused West Midlands Police of repeatedly failing to act on allegations of racism.

Khizra Bano, who joined the force in 2001 and was named British policewoman of the year in 2011 told ITV News: "The racism, sexism and homophobia of police officers is a risk to public safety."

Ms Bano, who grew up in Perry Barr in Birmingham, said that claims were made over a three-year period in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, who died when a police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest.

The murder of George Floyd sparked protests across the world, with many marching as part of the Black Lives Matter movement. Tensions were high particularly in relation to racism in policing.

Ms Bano, organised a series of open forums she called Brave Spaces where police colleagues were invited to talk about race and other forms of discrimination.

Ms Bano recalls some of the testimonies she claims she heard.

She said: "I remember a colleague saying that she’d been asked to jump on the table and give her white peers a tribal dance.

"I remember a colleague saying there were showers that only the police had access to and those showers had the P word and N word emblazoned across them in graffiti."

Other testimony shared with Ms Bano - all of which she said she shared each month with West Midlands Police’s Diversity and Inclusion Board included the following:

Following a terrorist incident, a Muslim colleague was asked, “So your mates have been at it again?”

Another colleague having her Afro patted by a supervisor, saying: "I haven’t touched black hair before - this is interesting."

Ms Bano is now taking the force to employment tribunal over claims of detriment and disability discrimination. Channel 4 news interviewed her today:

In response to Ms Bano's allegations, West Midlands Police said the force is getting better at disciplining and dismissing officers who engage in discriminatory behaviour.

 

[Lurdan]

Superintendant Jamie Gordon of the Met’s South East Command Unit appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today charged with attempted rape and sexual assault of a junior colleague last December. Arrested and suspended in January and charged last month. He was conditionally bailed. Pre-trial hearing in January.

Senior Met police officer ‘tried to rape junior colleague’ - Times (archived)

Gordon is believed to be the most senior Met officer to be investigated for an alleged sexual offence, after a string of high-profile scandals.
He held a leading role as a volunteer on the sexual misconduct portfolio of the National Police Chief’s Council until he was suspended by the Met.

Met's bland press statement here

 

[equationgirl]

It's staggering, isn't it.

 

[savoloysam]

I think you'd create dozens of professional standards investigations as you tried to cleanse that augean stables

You would know wouldnt you pigmans?You Tim and Two Sheds

 

[GarveyLives]

On 10 December 2024, an Accelerated Gross Misconduct Hearing was chaired by Chief Constable Tim Forber at North Yorkshire Police headquarters in respect of former PC 1232 Simon Barker.

Former PC 1232 Simon Barker faced allegations for breaching the Standards of Professional Behaviour relating to Authority Respect and Courtesy and Discreditable Conduct following recording himself during a sexual act, on police premises whilst in police uniform and sending this on to to his partner.

The panel heard that former PC Barker was clearly identifiable in the WhatsApp clip, with both his face and uniform visible.

Former PC 1232 Simon Barker resigned the day before the hearing and did not attend it.

Former PC 1232 Simon Barker's Police Federation union representative Matt Hagan told the hearing that former PC Barker was at his place of work when he performed the sex act but not 'on duty'.

Mr Hagan said: 'He would like to apologise for not attending today and this is solely to protect his mental health'.

Chief Constable Forber found the breaches proven and that the officer's behaviour amounted to Gross Misconduct, he determined that had former PC 1232 Simon Barker not resigned, he would have been dismissed. He will now be placed on the police barred list.

 

[GarveyLives]

Earlier today, former PC Lorna Pennycook of Station Road, Walsall, was imprisoned for four years at Birmingham Crown Court after admitting one count of misconduct in public office, after illegally accessing and passing sensitive information from police computer systems around 200 times to her boyfriend and convicted professional criminal, Anthony Kennedy, between 2017 and 2021.

Kennedy received the same sentence as former PC Lorna Pennycook for encouraging or assisting the offences.

Former PC Lorna Pennycook, who resigned from West Midlands Police shortly after her arrest, and worked with the West Midlands Police Birmingham east and west organised crime and gangs teams, met Kennedy on a dating site in 2016 by which time he had already been sentenced to eight years for a gang lorry jacking, and used her position to search for information in relation to Kennedy and his vehicles, including checking for outstanding warrants for Sandwell, where he lived, 42 times during the four-year period.

Former PC Lorna Pennycook, often searched police's computer systems for information on warrants and wanted suspects in Sandwell, where Kennedy was from, even though she had no operational responsibility for the area. She also searched for incidents involving Kennedy himself and his known associates as well as details on vehicles, stabbings and shootings.

On two occasions former PC Lorna Pennycook, provided her boyfriend with the telephone numbers which had made reports of illegal poker games in 2021, in breach of Covid-19 restrictions at the time. In February that year Kennedy also supplied her with a burner phone because she had become fearful about the 'precarious' position she had put herself in.

Sentencing, Judge Paul Farrer KC concluded that the information that former PC Lorna Pennycook had illegally provided was likely to have assisted criminals and interfered with police investigations. He stated her actions had 'damaged confidence' in the police when trust in officers was of the 'utmost importance if society is to function properly'.

 

[GarveyLives]

On 10 December 2024, a former West Mercia Police officer, former PC Nicholas Peacock was imprisoned for 18 months at Shrewsbury Crown Court, having admitted misconduct in a public office after engaging in a sexual relationship with a suspect in an assault case that he was supposed to be investigating.

Former PC Nicholas Peacock failed to investigate the crime fully and closed the case, claiming that there were no witnesses and the victim did not support a prosecution - neither of which were true.

(Source: West Mercia Police)

Speaking after the case, temporary Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Jones, said:

“The dishonesty and lack of integrity shown by (former PC) Nicholas Peacock is deplorable. He abused his power as a police officer, and in the process totally undermined the trust which the victim had placed in him to investigate the case fairly and impartially."

 

[GarveyLives]

Some of this year's news reports on West Mercia Police.

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Former West Mercia Police officer appears in court over misconduct charges

A FORMER West Mercia Police officer who is facing criminal charges has appeared in court.

www.herefordtimes.com

The trial of West Mercia Police's former PC Mark Cranfield has now commenced:

"A police officer sent a Facebook friend request to a victim of so-called revenge porn minutes after making his attraction to her obvious, a court has heard ..."

PC 'sent friend request to revenge porn victim'

Former PC Mark Cranfield denies committing three counts of misconduct while in public office. His trial continues.

 

[GarveyLives]

In an update to the Metropolitan Police's activities with children in Hackney, a 13 year-old boy was surrounded by armed police after an officer mistook his water pistol for a real gun.

The child was "rammed" off his bike by a police van and handcuffed as he was confronted by marksmen in Hackney, east London, in July, the Alliance for Police Accountability said.

Child X: Mum’s shock after armed cops arrest 13 year old over colourful toy water gun

"We know it may cause public concern and we want to help the public understand why we responded in the way we did ...

... according to the College of Policing, officers "should treat all firearms as real and loaded until proven otherwise".​

The actions of Metropolitan Police gunmen who surrounded, handcuffed and arrested a 13-year-old boy after knocking him off his bicycle after an officer mistook his blue water pistol for a real gun on 19 July 2023 were "reasonable in the circumstances", the Independent Office For Police Conduct has concluded:

Independent Office for Police Conduct clears armed police who arrested 13-year-old playing with water pistol

 

[GarveyLives]

Err ..

"West Mercia Police Federation chair Steve Butler says lengthy police misconduct investigations are a waste of public money ..."

Protracted police misconduct investigations a 'drain on the public purse'

 

[GarveyLives]

One really wonders just what it is that "damaging public trust" in the police?:

1 September 2023: Home Secretary Suella Braverman: Woke police are damaging public trust

25 October 2023:

(Source: as stated in image)

Home Secretary Suella Braverman: "Woke police are damaging public trust"​

This morning, Rebekah Edwards, the mother of South Wales Police paedophile, former PC Lewis Edwards, who groomed more than 200 girls online, and had 4,500 indecent images of children, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for perverting the course of justice, after burying evidence relating to her son's crimes in a cat’s grave.

Former South Wales Police paedophile PC Lewis Edwards also received another a two-year and eight-month sentence for further possession of indecent images and 12 months' imprisonment for perverting the course of justice:

PC Lewis Edwards: Mum hid paedophile cop's phone in cat grave

 

[GarveyLives]

Two former South Yorkshire Police officers have been arrested on suspicion of historic sexual offences.

The incidents, including attempted rape and indecent assault, are alleged to have taken place in the 1990s while the officers were on duty as PCs.

Both suspects, who worked in Rotherham, have been bailed as the investigation continued, said a police spokesperson:

Two former Rotherham police officers arrested over child sexual abuse

 

[GarveyLives]

Serving Metropolitan Police officer, PC Luke Tuppenney, appeared at Isleworth Crown Court on 13 December 2024, where he pleaded guilty to controlling and coercive behaviour, an offence which was committed while he was off duty.

Following his guilty plea for controlling and coercive behaviour, a charge of malicious communications was left on file.

PC Luke Tuppenney, who has been suspended from duty following his arrest in August 2023 as part of an investigation by the domestic abuse unit at Thames Valley Police, will appear at the same court on 3 March 2025 for sentencing.

“PC Tuppenney’s actions go against our values within the Met Police, which the vast majority of our officers uphold every day.

“Our Directorate of Professional Standards is now progressing a misconduct investigation in relation to his actions.”​

 

[GarveyLives]

On 18 December 2024, serving Dorset Police officer, Detective inspector Mark Portelli of Poole, who works in the high harm unit of Dorset Police covering domestic violence, was fined £500 and ordered to pay the prosecution's costs of £620 and a victim surcharge of £200 at Southampton Magistrates Court, after he was found guilty of using threatening or abusive words likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

Detective Inspector Mark Portelli subjected his partner to a barrage of verbal abuse after he was removed from the Canvas nightclub in Bournemouth in the early hours of 31 March 2024. He had already drunk several cocktails and glasses of prosecco at a 'bottomless brunch' a meal where guests are given unlimited alcoholic drinks for a set period of time, earlier that day before leaving for the Canvas nightclub where he continued to drink, before shouting 'you stupid f*cking b*h', as he hurled abuse at his girlfriend and even branded her a 'c'.

Assault charges against Detective Inspector Mark Portelli were withdrawn by the prosecution because the alleged victims, three nightclub staff members, did not attend the trial:

(Source: as stated in image)​

Serving police officer sentenced for public order offence

 

[GarveyLives]

A Metropolitan Police officer who shared child abuse images on his work phone while he was on duty has been spared jail. The officer, who was granted anonymity during misconduct proceedings, distributed four Category A indecent videos of children six times between November and December 2022, including three times while on duty and twice using his work phone.

Officer A was charged by Sussex Police and pleaded guilty to all six counts at Brighton and Hove Magistrates Court on 26 September 2024. He was sentenced to two years, suspended for two years, at Hove Crown Court on 29 October 2024, with 200 hours unpaid work and a rehabilitation activity requirement.

A misconduct hearing held in December 2024 found that he had breached professional standards by breaking the law and concluded the officer would have been dismissed if he was still serving:

Metropolitan Police officer who looked at child abuse images on work phone while he was on duty spared prison

 

[GarveyLives]

Update:



‘16 years old, vulnerable, in handcuffs’: Police held Taser to teenager’s neck, hearing told


Metropolitan Police officer who held Taser to black boy’s neck found guilty of gross misconduct

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“We acknowledge that this was a distressing incident for the boy involved and recognise the ongoing impact it has had on both him and his family. We have previously apologised for the trauma caused and we repeat this again today.

“It is right that any use of force and stop and search are scrutinised, and in this case the panel found that PC Jones’s actions were not proportionate or necessary.”

The Metropolitan Police has now also apologised to a man who was detained by PC Connor Jones, who has faced three misconduct proceedings for excessive force within the past two years:

Metropolitan Police apologises to community leader detained by officer who has faced three misconduct proceedings

PC Connor Jones' activities almost seem to merit their own thread.