Filth by name. . .

[Karl Masks]

If he'd been an attractive young female they might have followed him home.

While grinning and leering. Perfectly normal....except for everyone not a cop

 

[GarveyLives]

Meet Detective Constable Stephen Hardy of Greater Manchester Police's Stockport division ...

(Source: Steve Allen)​

... on 3 October 2022, Detective Constable Stephen Hardy appeared before Liverpool Crown Court accused of three charges of possessing extreme pornography; one of coercive behaviour; six sexual assaults of a girl; two of inciting or causing a girl to engage in sexual activity; raping a 15-year-old girl; two offences of raping a woman; causing a child to look at an image of sexual activity; causing a woman to engage in sexual activity; two sexual assaults of a woman and two of taking indecent images of a child.

Greater Manchester Police Detective Constable Stephen Hardy was not asked to enter any pleas and he was further remanded on bail by Judge Neil Flewitt, KC, until 31 October 2022. A date for his trial, expected to last seven days, was fixed to begin on 3 July 2023.

Greater Manchester Police first received a report relating to Detective Constable Stephen Hardy in June 2020.

 

[equationgirl]

There's so many of them...

 

[Pickman's model]

There's so many of them...

look at it the other way round, there are so few law-abiding cops

 

[equationgirl]

look at it the other way round, there are so few law-abiding cops

Yeah, that's worse

 

[GarveyLives]

More 'bandwidth' issues and 'conspiracies':

More than 170 serving Metropolitan Police officers under investigation for alleged domestic abuse

"Figures from City Hall show that a rising number of police are subject to inquiries."​

That's an astoundingly low number, reckon there's hundreds more below the radar

Yet more 'bandwidth issues' and 'conspiracies':

"The Metropolitan Police is investigating more than 600 domestic and sexual abuse allegations against its officers, the BBC has been told ..."

Inside the new Met police unit investigating officer abuse claims

 

[Pickman's model]

Yet more 'bandwidth issues' and 'conspiracies':



Inside the new Met police unit investigating officer abuse claims

yeh but when you bump in corruption and misconduct and assault etc must be a far more sizeable number

 

[GarveyLives]

Another day of 'bandwidth issues' and 'conspiracies':


Huge failings kept hundreds of corrupt officers in the force, admits Met chief


Met chief criticises force’s failure to tackle racism and misogyny


New Met Police chief admits black and Asian officers have faced 'systematic bias'

(Source: as stated in image)

A lasting legacy.​

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Another day of 'bandwidth issues' and 'conspiracies':


Huge failings kept hundreds of corrupt officers in the force, admits Met chief


Met chief criticises force’s failure to tackle racism and misogyny


New Met Police chief admits black and Asian officers have faced 'systematic bias'

(Source: as stated in image)

A lasting legacy.​

is that a picture of the wife of the head of professional standards?

 

[Lurdan]

Louise Casey ('Baroness Casey' lol) was commissioned by Cressida Dick :

To undertake a review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service and make recommendations on the actions required.

She has written to Mark Rowley with the 'initial views' she has come to after looking at Met records of complaints and how they are dealt with. (PDF here). The complaints analysed are all internal ones - complaints raised by Met staff, officers and their families NOT complaints raised by the general public.

1. The Met takes too long to resolve misconduct cases.
2. Officers and staff do not believe that action will be taken when concerns around conduct are raised.
3. Allegations relating to sexual misconduct and other discriminatory behaviours are less likely than other misconduct allegations to result in a ‘case to answer’ decision.

4. The misconduct process does not find and discipline officers with repeated or patterns of unacceptable behaviour.
5. The Met does not fully support local Professional Standards Units (PSUs) to deal with misconduct effectively.
6. The Met is not clear about what constitutes ‘Gross Misconduct’ and what will be done about it.

7. There is racial disparity throughout the Met’s misconduct system.

Despite improvement, it was still the case in 2021-22 that Black officers and staff were 81% more likely than White officers to have misconduct allegations brought against them, while Asian officers were 55% more likely. Black and Asian officers were also more likely to have an allegation substantiated than White officers. This is a long standing issue and is clear evidence of systemic bias.​

8. Regulation 13 is not being used fairly or effectively in relation to misconduct.

She briefly expands on these points in her letter.

The letter is accompanied by a 21 page 'interim report' (PDF here), briefly setting out the methodology employed in analysing the Met's data, and giving some statistics, case studies and quotes from Met officers in support of her 'initial views'.

It includes some case studies of how some officers with multiple complaints against them are still in post.

The key issues here is that each conduct issue is viewed separately. Allegations are dealt with individually and as far as we can see, connections are not made to prior concerns raised which fall short of formal misconduct. Crucially, this means repeated or escalating misconduct is not spotted, missing those who potentially pose most risk to others.

A recent Met report3 corroborates this finding, highlighting ‘a blinkered approach’ to investigations which focuses too narrowly on the presenting issue. The report identified 24 instances where the same officer had been investigated on two or more occasions for behaviour linked to sexual misconduct and domestic abuse - but found that these previous allegations had not been taken into account when considering if there was a case to answer for the alleged misconduct or its severity.

A further barrier is that several lower level conduct issues cannot be taken cumulatively to make a misconduct allegation.

Here's the first of those case studies - the officer in question is still serving with the Met

Spoiler: Case Study

Dip Sample Case Study 1 involves an officer with 11 misconduct cases raised against him for cases involving abuse, sexual harassment and assault, fraud, improper disclosure of information and distribution of an explicit image of himself. The officer received a formal sanction in relation to the first misconduct case but was not dismissed. By the time this decision had been made, a further six misconduct cases had already been raised against him. After receiving this formal sanction, a further four misconduct cases were raised against him and the officer then received a further formal sanction but was not dismissed. The officer is serving in the Metropolitan Police Service.

The first misconduct case raised against Officer 1 involved an allegation of harassment and assault (Case 1). Four months later, the officer has another more serious case of assault made against him (Case 2). A month later, another third misconduct case was opened against the officer (Case 3), the details of the allegation are unknown.

Less than six months later, a fourth misconduct case is opened against the officer due to an allegation of sexual assault (Case 4). Another month passes and nearly a year since the first case was made against the officer, all four cases against the officer remain open, a fifth case against Officer 1 is opened, this time involving a fraud (Case 5). A few months later, the unknown misconduct case (Case 3) and the case involving a fraud or deception (Case 5) are given a no case to answer decision and no action is taken. Eight months after this, and now over a year later, the sexual assault Case 4 is given a no case to answer decision and no action is taken against the officer. Cases 1 and 2 remain open.

Two months later, another allegation of assault is brought against the officer (Case 6). Cases 1 and 2 involving harassment and assault remain open. A month after the most recent case of assault was received, the second case of assault (Case 2) is given a no case to answer decision nearly two years later, and no action is taken against the officer. Another month later, an allegation of improper disclosure of information is raised against the officer (Case 7).

Over two years after the case was opened, the first case involving harassment and assault is substantiated (Case 1). A misconduct hearing issues him with a formal sanction. Whilst Cases 6 and 7 remain open, six months after the final warning was issued, an eighth case against Officer 1 is opened involving several serious allegations (Case 8), including allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault, sex-based discrimination, abuse of power. All allegations involve an incident that occurred whilst the officer was on duty. In the same month, whilst Cases 6-8 are still open, a ninth misconduct case against Officer 1 is initiated (Case 9). Two allegations are raised, one of sexual assault and one of sexual harassment.

Later that same year, the assault case opened a year prior is given a no case to answer decision and no action is taken against the officer. Whilst three misconduct cases are still open (two involving sexual violence) a tenth case against Officer 1 is initiated in a month later, this one involving harassment and the distribution of an explicit image of himself (Case 10).

Four months later, the case involving improper disclosure of information (Case 7) raised fifteen months previously is given a no case to answer decision. In the same month, whilst three cases against Officer 1 involving harassment, sexual violence, and gender-based discrimination are still open, another allegation of a sexual offence is raised against Officer 1 (Case 11). This incident led to his arrest.

A month after his arrest, the majority (but not all) allegations of sexual assault and harassment in Case 8 are found to have a case to answer (Case 8). A misconduct hearing issues a further formal sanction but does not dismiss him. In the same month, the case involving abuse, harassment and distribution of an explicit image initiated eighteen months prior is given a no case to answer decision and no action is taken (Case 10). A few months later and a year after it was opened, the case involving sexual assault and harassment (Case 9) is given a no case to answer decision and the officer is referred to reflective practice.

Letter and report are short and worth reading IMO. Mark Rowley has issued a short response.
Casey's review is ongoing and her final report is expected to be produced next spring.

 

[GarveyLives]

Meet serving - but currently suspended - Metropolitan Police officer, PC Darren Hourigan, who is attached to their South Area Command Unit ...

(Source: Darren Fletcher)​

... earlier today, PC Darren Hourigan appeared before Wimbledon Magistrates' Court charged with three counts of possession of indecent images of children.

PC Darren Hourigan denied possessing still, moving and manipulated images including 2,253 in Category A, the most serious kind.

PC Darren Hourigan was granted unconditional bail ahead of a pre-trial hearing at Kingston Crown Court on 14 November 2022.​

 

[Lurdan]

Hertfordshire police officer convicted of raping child after victim’s testimony - The Guardian

James Ford, 31, of Hertfordshire constabulary, has been told he faces a lengthy jail term after being found guilty of 10 counts of sexual abuse against the same child after less than a day of deliberation by jurors at Cambridge crown court.

The defendant, formerly of Bishop’s Stortford, was found guilty of four counts of rape, four counts of sexual assault and two counts of causing or inciting a child under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity. He was also found guilty of carrying out an act tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice, in that he “deliberately wiped his phone by factory resetting his Samsung mobile phone”.

Hertfordshire Police Statement :

The court was told that sexual offences occurred between December 1, 2019 and September 30, 2021 (...)

Ford joined the force in December 2019.

 

[teqniq]

Three Met officers charged with assaulting teenage boy

Two sergeants and a constable will appear in court accused of assault by beating, the police watchdog says.

www.bbc.com

 

[Pickman's model]

Three Met officers charged with assaulting teenage boy

Two sergeants and a constable will appear in court accused of assault by beating, the police watchdog says.

www.bbc.com

Disband the met police

 

[ViolentPanda]

There's so many of them...

Unsurprising. In a culture that doesn't encourage dissent from the corrupt norm, wrong'uns like this piece of shit can get away with stuff because no-one wants to set a precedent & actually grass on them, & if they do, they KNOW they'll get sent to Coventry.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Disband the met police

Burn the entire institution down. It's rotten from top to bottom.

 

[Ming]

Meet Detective Constable Stephen Hardy of Greater Manchester Police's Stockport division ...

(Source: Steve Allen)​

... on 3 October 2022, Detective Constable Stephen Hardy appeared before Liverpool Crown Court accused of three charges of possessing extreme pornography; one of coercive behaviour; six sexual assaults of a girl; two of inciting or causing a girl to engage in sexual activity; raping a 15-year-old girl; two offences of raping a woman; causing a child to look at an image of sexual activity; causing a woman to engage in sexual activity; two sexual assaults of a woman and two of taking indecent images of a child.

Greater Manchester Police Detective Constable Stephen Hardy was not asked to enter any pleas and he was further remanded on bail by Judge Neil Flewitt, KC, until 31 October 2022. A date for his trial, expected to last seven days, was fixed to begin on 3 July 2023.

Greater Manchester Police first received a report relating to Detective Constable Stephen Hardy in June 2020.

Ricky Gervais has let himself go.

 

[Pickman's model]

Burn the entire institution down. It's rotten from top to bottom.

Good to see you posting again hope you're doing well

 

[ViolentPanda]

Good to see you posting again hope you're doing well

Well enough, thanks!

 

[equationgirl]

Unsurprising. In a culture that doesn't encourage dissent from the corrupt norm, wrong'uns like this piece of shit can get away with stuff because no-one wants to set a precedent & actually grass on them, & if they do, they KNOW they'll get sent to Coventry.

Indeed, Mr Panda. You are correct. Whole thing needs a serious overhaul.

 

[Lurdan]

On Friday James Ford (see post #912 above) was jailed for 18 years and 3 months after being convicted of four counts of rape, four counts of sexual assault and two counts of causing or inciting a child under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity, all committed against the same child over twenty months. Plus one count of perverting the course of justice in wiping his phone

The judge said jurors were satisfied that Ford had wiped his phone as he "knew or suspected material relating to the offences" was on it. He said this was consistent with the girl's evidence that Ford was "pointing (his) phone at her while acts of sexual abuse were going on". (BBC story)

Paedophile officer's Facebook 'likes' had been flagged before he started abusing girl - ITV News Anglia

The former response officer worked for Hertfordshire Police between December 2019 and November 2021. The force has now admitted a vetting process used to screen candidates applying for a job had flagged up that he had "liked" a number of posts on Facebook which were deemed inappropriate.

But when the 31-year-old was challenged, he "confirmed the likes were from his youth when he had a much darker sense of humour and did not reflect his adult lifestyle", said the force.

A spokesman added: "As there were no other matters for concern, it would be disproportionate to refuse vetting at that time." Hertfordshire Police said the vetting process regularly found people with social media accounts from when they were teenagers that needed editing and said "James Ford's explanation was reasonable and credible".

Ford was issued a police vetting clearance on 7 November 2019. His offending began just 24 days later, on 1 December 2019.

Almost as if he joined the force because of the opportunity it provided to pursue his "adult lifestyle".

(...) A full review into the process that saw Ford become a police constable will now take place "to identify any learning opportunities moving forward and how we can better improve our existing practices", said the force.

 

[bluescreen]

Who knew?

‘Prevalent’ predatory, misogynistic culture in police, official report finds

Inspectorate uncovers widespread vetting failures with officers cleared to join after committing serious crimes

www.theguardian.com

 

[Humberto]

And here:

'Thousands' of corrupt officers may be in police after vetting failures, watchdog warns

A review into the vetting of prospective police officers was commissioned after the murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, a serving Met Police officer, last year.

news.sky.com

Disturbing.

 

[bluescreen]

And here:

'Thousands' of corrupt officers may be in police after vetting failures, watchdog warns

A review into the vetting of prospective police officers was commissioned after the murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, a serving Met Police officer, last year.

news.sky.com

Disturbing.

It's appalling. It's almost as if there isn't so much a failure of vetting as a positive 'let 'em in' campaign. It is beyond disgusting - and this report was only looking at a sample of eight forces.

 

[Lurdan]

And here in the Times:

Police are recruiting criminals and sexual predators, HMIC report finds (archived)

Recruits with families in organised crime have been hired in the past three years. In one force, which was not named, an applicant passed vetting despite a history of indecent exposure.
A chief constable allowed the transfer of an officer accused of sexually assaulting junior officers and a member of the public, because they felt it would “make the force more diverse”.

The actual report is online here

An inspection of vetting, misconduct, and misogyny in the police service - HMICFRS

Too easy for the wrong people to join and stay in the police, new report on misogyny and corruption finds - HMICFRS

 

[Lurdan]

Let's have look at the week in filth.

26th October
A misconduct hearing into former South Yorkshire PC Craig Beazley found he had committed gross misconduct in initiating an inappropriate sexual relationship with a woman he had met when she had reported being a victim of domestic violence. Beazley would have been sacked if he had not already resigned but was barred from working in policing.

IOPC press release - Former West Yorkshire Police officer abused his position for a sexual purpose

28th October
A misconduct hearing into former Devon and Cornwall PC David Hoar found he had committed six counts of gross misconduct in initiating and conducting an inappropriate relationship with a victim of domestic violence whose case he was in charge of. Hoar would have been sacked if he had not resigned but was barred from working in policing.

IOPC press release - Former Devon & Cornwall Police officer would have been dismissed for inappropriate relationship

Devon and Cornwall police officer had sexual relationship with 'vulnerable' victim of crime - Devon Live

2nd November
A misconduct hearing into former Cleveland PC Matthew Lewis concluded today. Lewis had admitted having sex with a colleague on police premises and in police vehicles while on duty. He had initially denied having shared images of a woman without her consent, however the images were found on his own laptop and on the phone of the colleague he had sent them to. He was also alleged to have exposed himself to a colleague in a police vehicle and asked them to perform a sex act.

The tribunal found there was insufficient evidence to uphold the latter allegation but found he had shared the images and lied about it. Lewis had resigned after admitting having sex on duty. The tribunal found he had committed gross misconduct and barred him from working in policing.

Cleveland Police offer banned after performing sex acts with colleague - The Northern Echo

 

[teqniq]

Where is my tiny violin?

Wayne Couzens' Met colleagues claim they are victims of 'cancel culture' as they are sentenced to jail terms over WhatsApp group

 

[RedRedRose]

Detailed report by Channel 4 mainly on a police inspectorate report looking at the internal culture of the Met and its inability to weed out wrong's.

 

[DaveCinzano]

So, so leaky...

 

[RedRedRose]

Former Metropolitan Police officer jailed for stealing money from station safe

former Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for 10 months for stealing £1,500 from a safe at an east London police station.
Bradley Francis, 35, resigned as a police constable as he was to face a misconduct hearing, after his theft from the safe at Stoke Newingtonpolice station in April was uncovered.