Filth by name. . .

[existentialist]

Always amazed by how these bent coppers get off so lightly, is there some parallel universe justice system that their job gets them into?

No, it's worse - it's the same justice system we're subject to, and which generally treats police evidence with more credulity than yours or mine.

 

[Badgers]

Cops at Charing Cross station called black officers “monkeys” and one had sex with an arrested woman, amid a “toxic” culture dating back to 2006, a former constable has alleged.

At its worst, it puts uneducated and emotionally unintelligent people with a toolbox of weapons and powers that can change someone’s life forever.

Excl: IOPC probing ex-cop’s shock claims that police had sex with suspect in custody

Cops at Charing Cross station called black officers “monkeys” and one had sex with an arrested woman, amid a “toxic” culture dating back to 2006, a former constable has alleged.

www.londonworld.com

 

[GarveyLives]

"The Metropolitan police have denied the force is plagued by a culture of misogyny after an official report revealed shocking details of officers sharing messages about hitting and raping women, as well as the deaths of black babies and the Holocaust."

Metropolitan police officers joked about raping women, police watchdog reveals

Is there anyone left who doesn’t think the Metropolitan Police is racist?

(Source: as stated in image)​

Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick CBE QPM, was awarded a two-year contract extension in September 2021 despite requests that she be removed from her position.

Inevitably:

Met officer was promoted despite misconduct over sexist and racist messages

(Source: as stated in image)​

"The officer was promoted from the rank of constable to sergeant despite being sanctioned for failing to report wrongdoing, the Met confirmed.

 

[Pickman's model]

Excl: IOPC probing ex-cop’s shock claims that police had sex with suspect in custody

Cops at Charing Cross station called black officers “monkeys” and one had sex with an arrested woman, amid a “toxic” culture dating back to 2006, a former constable has alleged.

www.londonworld.com

Think you'll find the toxic culture dates back to 1829

 

[Badgers]

 

[seeformiles]

Apologies for poor photo of Sunday broadsheet but this is a very creepy story - esp. where a senior detective tells a victim of crime:
“I am as determined in my pursuit of criminals as I am of beautiful women”

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Another day and another of Cressida Dick's officers...

Met Police officer asked teenage girls out, court hears

PC Adnan Arib, 45, is accused of two counts of misconduct in public office.

www.bbc.co.uk

A Met Police officer arranged to meet a 15-year-old girl in a park where he put his arm round her, a court has heard.
PC Adnan Arib, 45, is accused of two counts of misconduct in public office, one in connection with the 15-year-old and another with a second girl aged 16.
The officer, based at Bethnal Green police station in east London, is alleged to have told one she was "very pretty" before inviting her out.

 

[Dystopiary]

Met Police officers 'Tasered and pepper sprayed pregnant women' after arresting them

The Metropolitan Police has used force thousands of times on women who said they were pregnant or possibly pregnant following arrest. Officers even Tasered some women, as well as using dogs, spray and batons.

The statistics, obtained by ITV News were uncovered following a Freedom of Information request to nearly 20 different forces across the UK, with the Met recording the largest number of incidents of force used on self-described pregnant or possibly pregnant women by far.

 

[seeformiles]

Cressida Dick to step down as Metropolitan Police chief

A recent report into racist and sexist officers in London was one of many controversies she faced.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[DaveCinzano]

Cressida Dick to step down as Metropolitan Police chief

A recent report into racist and sexist officers in London was one of many controversies she faced.

www.bbc.co.uk

Just a shame that she's going to get minted from cushy non-exec seats on shonky 'security' firms

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Just a shame that she's going to get minted from cushy non-exec seats on shonky 'security' firms

And a seat in the Lords. Maybe she could choose Stockwell as her place to be Baroness of, just to grind the de Menezes family’s nose firmly in to the ground.

 

[Chilli.s]

So Dick resigns. Possibly a sign that as the rot runs so deep and filthy, to fix the broken force would require sacking everyone and making them reapply for their jobs with a proper stringent interview and selection process.

She always struck me as someone who was covering up how bad it was, a safe pair of hands in the most disgusting way

 

[bluescreen]

Not really a surprise but still shocking.

150 Met officers faced domestic violence claims in the past two years

Almost 150 Metropolitan Police officers have been accused of domestic violence against their spouses or partners in the last two years, an Evening Standard investigation has revealed.

www.standard.co.uk

A Freedom of Information request found 129 male officers and 18 female officers had faced domestic abuse allegations — but just eight per cent were charged. This amounts to more than one woman a week coming forward in London to report that their husband or partner, a serving officer in the Met, has been seriously abusing them.

Only 11 of the 129 accused male officers were charged and just one of the female officers. None of the remaining officers were cautioned.

 

[Dogsauce]

So Dick resigns. Possibly a sign that as the rot runs so deep and filthy, to fix the broken force would require sacking everyone and making them reapply for their jobs with a proper stringent interview and selection process.

I quite like how the US managed to weed out a lot of the cranky far right coppers using vaccine mandates. No jab, no job. I bet their force is measurably less racist as a result. I don’t know what equivalent would work here.

 

[GarveyLives]

48-year-old Metropolitan Police Sergeant George Panayi, part of the Metropolitan Police's East Area Command Unit, will be stripped of his rank after he blamed his 'Mediterranean Greek background' for his 'entirely unprofessional' behaviour when he kissed and pinched the cheek of a female junior officer.

Sergeant George Panayi was today found guilty of misconduct after he was accused of kissing and pinching the cheek of the female officer - without her consent - while on duty.
He was also accused of opening the door to a lavatory knowing the female officer was inside.

Sergeant George Panayi avoided dismissal but should face a reduction in rank after three allegations against him were proven to be misconduct, the disciplinary panel ruled.

Sergeant George Panayi had told the hearing his behaviour could be partly attributed to his 'Mediterranean Greek background'.

He said it was not uncommon for him to kiss colleagues on the cheek when congratulating them, or when having "a bit of fun" with them.

He said: "I am quite a touchy person when it comes to showing some kind of feeling or emotion."

Met Police sergeant who kissed female officer and pinched her cheeks keeps his job

(Source: as stated in image)

Don't we all have an "occasional bad 'un"?​

 

[Badgers]

Shocking footage appears to show a police officer running up and kicking a teenage boy in the head after he was wrestled to the ground during an arrest.

The video shows cops wrestling with a teenager on the ground on Wednesday evening when a man, identified as a police officer by an eyewitness, runs up and directs a kick at him.

Police officer filmed 'kicking' teen boy in head 'like a football' near bus stop

A witness said the officer 'came out of nowhere' and kicked the youth who was on the ground wrestling with police at a bus station in Ashton-under-Lyne

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

Fucksake:

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Fucksake:

Cunt.

 

[existentialist]

Fucksake:

I still recall my dad saying to me, when I was a kid, "Have as little to do with the police as you can possibly manage."

Wise words, and ones I continue to live by. This kind of video is an example of exactly why, and I have a few personal encounters which bear it out as well.

 

[GarveyLives]

Hundreds of UK police kept jobs after sickening social media abuses

"openDemocracy’s investigation now reveals that abusive messages are a widespread issue among police forces across the UK"​

 

[equationgirl]

Shocked I tell you, shocked.... whoever would have thought culture is endemic

 

[Dystopiary]

Reading that piece linked to by GarveyLives last night, I clicked on a "related story" and it's written by someone who grew up with an abusive step-father, who was a senior detective with the Met. She talks about how he used that fact to terrorise his family with impunity.

I survived abuse by a serving police officer, and I know where impunity leads

[W]hat is it about the police that attracts violent men, and allows that violence to go unchecked? This is an existential question for policing as an institution: who it recruits, how it recruits and the internal culture it breeds.

 

[GarveyLives]

Meet 43 year-old James Land who has worked as a Police Community Support Officer for Derbyshire Constabulary since 2007, including in their Cyber Crime Unit ...

(Source: as stated in image)​

... Police Community Support Officer James Land has been charged with three counts of making indecent images (including of children), one count of possessing extreme images and six counts of voyeurism. He is due to appear before Chesterfield Magistrates' Court on 14 March 2022, and has been suspended from his role as a Police Community Support Officer.

 

[Sprocket.]

Just seen this.

PC William Sampson: Officer accused of baton assault found dead PC William Sampson: Officer accused of baton assault found dead

 

[GarveyLives]

PC Ryan Connolly, who worked for Merseyside Police, took selfies at a murder scene where a teenager had been stabbed to death and sent ‘deplorable’ racist, homophobic and offensive images via WhatsApp, as well as taking photographs of mentally ill people being sectioned, someone who had slit their wrists and at least two men in hospital, resigned in November prior to a disciplinary hearing taking place:

Police officer took selfies at murder scene and sent racist WhatsApp images

Yesterday, former PC Ryan Connolly of Merseyside Police appeared at Manchester Magistrates Court to face charges of misconduct in public office ...

(Source: as stated in image)

(Source: as stated in image)​

... former PC Ryan Connolly has been bailed to appear at Manchester Crown Court tomorrow. He is accused of taking photos of himself at the scene where a teenager had been stabbed to death, and is also accused of using his mobile phone to take photos of police documents and a number of individuals who police were dealing with.

 

[GarveyLives]

At Southwark Crown Court earlier today, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, 44-year old PC Adnan Arib, who is accused of arranging to meet two girls, and asking one to lie in an interview, denied two charges of misconduct in a public office.

PC Adnan Arib, of Harts Lane, Barking, who is based at the Central East Command Unit, allegedly questioned a 15-year-old without a parent present and told her to lie about questions regarding a theft, before arranging to meet her out of work. He also allegedly invited a 16-year-old girl out and messaged her for non-policing purposes for two months. He met both children during the course of his duties.

The charges follow a criminal investigation undertaken by the Independent Office for Police Conduct following a referral from the Metropolitan Police in July 2019.

PC Adnan Arib will go on trial on 10 February 2022.

(Source: as stated in image)

“I have 44,000 people working in the Met. Sadly, some of them are abused at home, for example, and sadly, on occasion, I have a bad ’un”

- Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick CBE QPM, speaking at the Women’s Institute, Tuesday 8 July 2021​

"A Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of inappropriate behaviour towards two girls under the age of 18.

PC Adnan Arib, 45, was found guilty today (16 February 2022) of two charges of misconduct in public office at Southwark Crown Court.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct was called to investigate in 2019 after PC Arib attended the house of one of the teenagers following a report of alleged theft. PC Arib went to her room and whispered to her to answer ‘no’ to any questions he asked about the theft. After questioning her, he said he needed to meet her after school that day and asked her to write her name, phone number and email on a piece of paper. He told her not to tell anyone.

He later contacted her using an unregistered phone, before meeting her after school as arranged. The teenage girl became suspicious and concerned when PC Arib asked her if she had other clothing, suggested he could teach her things and proposed that they go to a park further away from her home. She went home and immediately informed her mother who contacted the authorities.

The second girl, who was identified from an interrogation of the unregistered phone, had reported herself as a missing child and asked to be taken home. Whilst PC Arib supervised her at the police station, he recorded her contact details on a piece of paper and said he wanted to take her out. He subsequently messaged her trying to persuade her to meet him, which she declined to do.

The case was referred to the CPS after a thorough investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

Kirstie Dye, Specialist Prosecutor in the CPS Special Crime Division, said: “PC Arib used his position of trust in attempts to develop relationships with two vulnerable girls. It is fortunate that both girls recognised the warning signs.

“The way in which PC Arib recorded the girls’ contact details and the fact he initially denied ownership of the unregistered mobile phone found in his rucksack demonstrates that he knew what he was doing was wrong.”

Arib will be sentenced at a later date."

Source: The Crown Prosecution Service, 16 February 2022

(Source: as stated in image)​

During his trial, PC Adnan Arib told Southwark Crown Court he had only wanted to give "careers advice", and said he believed offering careers guidance to the two girls was part of his wider policing duties.

 

[hitmouse]

I mean, sure, I think this guy is good.. But I have no first hand experience.

A legal resources thread, pinned in P&P is a great idea.

Network for Police Monitoring have a list of recommended solicitors here:

Solicitors - Netpol

Netpol operates a Protest Solicitors List enabling campaigners to find a good recommendation for a solicitor. It is based on the pooled experience of many activists over many years, and all of the solicitors are graded by an experienced panel. Send your feedback and recommendations to...

netpol.org

For barristers I would tend to say that you want Garden Court, but then legal stuff is tricky and iirc your solicitor hires your barrister, so if you get a decent solicitor in the first place then they'll hopefully either get you Garden Court or have a good reason for doing otherwise? You may need to push back a bit if they say you don't need a barrister and they reckon a solicitor advocate will do the job instead.

 

[Serge Forward]

Yeah, equationgirl and I were looking at that. We we're thinking it might be problematic listing "good" legal firms on here as we wouldn't want to be recommending (or back door advertising) firms we'd had no dealings with. But a sticky thread with links to things like the netpol list (and any comments from those who've had dealings with them), green and black cross, etc, might be good.

 

[equationgirl]

Yeah I need to pull my finger out and work on this.

 

[Badgers]

Hertfordshire Police officers sacked over explicit photos

Photos were taken of a woman in a police car and in her home while PC Crompton was on duty.

www.bbc.com