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(...) former Humberside Police officer Richard Cammidge is due to appear at Hull Crown Court, charged with child sex offences.
The former PC has been charged with engaging in sexual communication with a child between May 2018 and June 2018 and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child in October 2021.
Cammidge, who was based in Bridlington, is also charged with making an indecent photograph of a child.
He was arrested in November 2021, following an Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation

Former Humberside Police officer charged with child sex offences - Independent Office for Police Conduct

Former PC Richard Gammidge jailed for child sex offences


Cammidge was given a 15 month sentence on June 23rd

Former Humberside Police officer jailed for online child sex abuse - BBC News
IOPC press release - Former Humberside Police officer sentenced for child sex offences


Former PC Daniel Whitehead has been ordered to appear at a separate hearing, which will begin next week, after he was charged with gross misconduct.
According to Humberside Police, he posted content that was “inappropriate, grossly offensive in nature and sexually explicit” on social media and identified himself as a police officer, between September 2021 and March 2022.
Whiteside resigned before the misconduct hearing. The panel concluded his actions amounted to gross misconduct and he would have been sacked. He was barred from policing.

Whitehead had posted the content to his social media account, where he identified himself as a police officer, between September 2021 and March 2022, the misconduct panel was told.
Supervisors repeatedly told him to stop sharing offensive material, but he ignored their requests, despite being told he was breaking standards of professional behaviour, the panel heard.

Ex Humberside PC barred after offensive social media posts - BBC News
 
Still in Humberside. On Sunday the outcomes of Humberside misconduct hearings held in 2019 against 9 officers were published.

Humberside Police officers sacked over 'deplorable behaviour' - BBC News

These relate to two sets of misconduct hearings, the first in January 2019 involving Superintendent Edward Cook, former Inspector Scott Snowden and an unnamed PC.

A police superintendent who secretly filmed female colleagues and members of the public for his own sexual gratification is among nine officers to be found guilty of gross misconduct. Humberside Police said Edward Cook and the other six officers had also exchanged inappropriate messages and videos via text and WhatsApp. (...)

Chief Constable Lee Freeman heard Mr Cook had used cannabis between 2003 and 2006, hired a prostitute in Cleethorpes in 2003 and, in May 2018, disclosed details of a "sensitive armed police operation to a journalist". He said Mr Cook had displayed a "complete lack of integrity [and] a complete lack of respect for females". (...)

The proceedings also involved Insp Scott Snowden who, the panel heard, had "engaged in inappropriate text conversations" with a colleague, which included "inappropriate" images and comments that were "misogynistic and suggestive of violence". Humberside Police ruled Mr Snowden should be dismissed without notice had he not resigned prior to the hearing.

A third officer involved in the proceedings, referred to a Former PC A, was also found to have "sent offensive videos to another member of Humberside Police whilst both on and off duty".

A second set of misconduct hearings held in June 2019 related to six other officers, who have not been named, who "exchanged wholly inappropriate offensive, sexist, racist, homophobic, misogynistic and/or anti-Semitic messages" via a WhatsApp group.

All six were found guilty of gross misconduct. Three of the officers were dismissed without notice, while one would have been dismissed had he not already resigned, the force said. Two of the officers received final written warnings as their messages were deemed to be not as persistent and targeted as some other messages in the group.

The full report of the misconduct proceedings is here (PDF file). The reason the outcomes of these four year old hearings have only just been released is because Cook and Snowden were charged with offences under the Communications Act 2003, regarding the exchange of "indecent messages about women they had met while working".

Trial set for ex-Humberside Police officers charged over WhatsApp messages - Hull Live

Former Superintendent Richard Cook and former Inspector Scott Snowden


Edward Cook and Scott Snowden

The case was moved to Leeds Crown Court where in December 2020 it was dismissed on a technicality.
Case dropped against top cops accused of sending offensive messages about women - Grimsby Live

The DPP appealed against this decision and in November 2022 the High Court overturned it and referred the case back to the magistrates court to start again (Decision here - PDF)
The outcome of subsequent proceedings doesn't seem to have been reported but the Humberside Police press release about the 2019 misconduct hearings says

The Misconduct cases, which concluded in 2019, had a related live criminal investigation against two former officers which prevented publication of the Misconduct hearing until now. Both were acquitted at Leeds Magistrates Court on Friday 23rd June 2023.

You may recall that it was Humberside Police who instituted reforms in 2019 to stop attending routine welfare checks, mental health incidents and missing persons cases. Similar reforms have been adopted by other forces, including the Met.

How Humberside police’s pioneering policy on mental health calls paid off - Guardian

Humberside's Chief Constable explained that this was because of the amount of time such calls took up and the pressure this put them under.

The effects of these pressures on police resources were illustrated in 2017, when Superintendent Edward Cook took time out of his busy schedule, filming "female colleagues and members of the public for his own sexual gratification", to post pictures of police attending Hull Fair to social media. These included shots of eighteen officers, including another Superintendent, riding the dodgems.


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and two helping out at a donut stall.

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Well earned fun or unprofessional? Police pictured riding dodgems at fair while on duty - Mirror Online (Oct 2017)

Have things improved in Humberside since these misconduct hearings in 2019? Well not so you'd notice. There are the cases in my previous post. And in March this year Sky News broadcast an interview with two women in Humberside, a serving female officer and a woman who had reported being groomed and raped.

One officer tells Sky News she was "ostracised" by colleagues after reporting a senior officer who seduced her into a controlling relationship. She also claims an officer would sift through victims' statements to find women he could ask out and says misogyny is a "monster" at the force.

New police misogyny claims: Serving Humberside officer says problem at her force is a 'monster' - Sky News (March 2023)
 
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Ah yes, the Right Care Right Person trial by Humberside which is supposed to have been implemented by the Met.

Think Hull has quite a few problems to sort out.
 
It has now been reported that the Metropolitan Police have dropped their criminal investigation into 70-year-old Jamaican pensioner Errol Dixon who weighs around eight stone, is 5ft 6ins tall and who has had multiple strokes, heart problems and is also on blood-thinning tablets. Errol Dixon suffered a broken nose and a fractured eye socket after he stopped by police for a broken brake light. He was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker and later released under investigation.

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Following the publicity of 70-year-old Mr Dixon's injuries, Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation claimed that his colleagues were being 'subjected to trial by social media' and described allegations that the Metropolitan Police officers involved had assaulted Mr Dixon as "unsubstantiated and frankly false".

The Independent Office for Police Conduct is continuing to investigate the "unsubstantiated and frankly false" allegations against the police officers involved in inflicting the injuries to Mr Dixon.


The high court has overturned a decision by the police 'watchdog' that an officer who punched an elderly black man in the face had no case to answer.


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"Errol Dixon, 71, sustained a broken nose, displaced septum and fractured a cheekbone and an eye socket in the incident in south-east London in September 2021. He was stopped in his car by police officers in Bromley and the primary officer held Dixon round the neck and punched him in the face ..."

Elderly black man who was punched by Metropolitan Police officer wins judicial review
 
Here's the Guardian's reporting (no paywall)


The Met has 500 officers on restricted duties and 700 suspended. It's thought the new proposals could affect 2000 officers across the UK.
 
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How long will it be before the number of cops brought before the courts for sexual offences exceeds the number of non-cops to appear for the same crimes before the beak in the same period?
At this rate not very long - although copper prosecutions will probably skew the sexual assault and rape conviction stats for a few years because of the increase in the number of convictions.

Which will no doubt be hailed as a success...
 
And all this time these unreliable coppers have been arresting and giving evidence against people, who would have been more harshly treated if they question the police story. You'd think there'd be appeals against some of the verdicts.
I think there will be once the identities of the disgraced police officers were known. It would also depend on if there was bodycam footage available that backs up their version of events, or not, to my mind.
 
A former police officer has been found guilty of gross misconduct after getting into a fight at a bar. He was as a constable employed by Leicestershire Police at the time of the incident in Croft in January 2022. He has not been named.

He ... became involved in a row with another customer and "backed him up to the bar".
The officer was then pushed away, but grabbed the customer and the pair fell to the floor, before the officer had to be held back by at least two other patrons.
About two hours later the officer then became involved in an altercation with a man he knew in the outside smoking area, where the former officer was hit in the face, then tried to throw punches at the man who hit him, which did not connect.

Police officer guilty of gross misconduct after brawl in pub
 
A Devon and Cornwall police officer stands accused of sexual assault at the force's HQ.

PC Simon Mitchell, 41, from Bideford, north Devon, appeared before a district judge at Exeter Magistrates' Court.

The charge related to an incident alleged to have taken place in June 2022 at police premises at Middlemoor, Exeter, the court heard.

He was granted conditional bail and is due in Crown Court next month.

The court heard that Mr Mitchell was not on duty at the time of the alleged incident.

Lisa McCarthy, defending, said the officer would be denying the charge.

Devon and Cornwall Police officer accused of sex assault at HQ
 
Sir Mark Rowley says the fuck-up to the early weeks of the Stephen Laurence case (the words...'by former Met police officers ' seem to be missing from the sentence in my opinion) may not be able to be undone.

He also rejects the BBC report on a sixth suspect.

 
Bumper day for the fuzz today:


Seems to have withheld rather key information from the first misconduct review, so the IOPC is going to do the misconduct review again.
 
Another epic Met Police article:


Looks like the CPS have declined to prosecute without stating the reasoning behind their decision, although they have offered to meet with the family to explain in more details. I'm sure they're thrilled.

If the National Crime Agency investigated for so long, I'd really like to understand why the CPS is choosing not to prosecute. How many times are they going to put the family through this?
 
Some reports on Cleveland and Northumbria police misconduct cases this year in the Northern Echo.








 
Some more news reports on Met.





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

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(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.


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