A list arseholes.

What do Alastair MacRae, Alison Gow, Andy Gill and an anonymous Echo arsehole have in common that makes them unsuitable to be journalists?

Liverpool Commissioners

The Liverpool Commissioners seem to have gone native and have adopted the standard LCC approach of not even bothering to acknowledge emails, never mind producing substantive replies. Some clues as to their problems can be found in their email address Commissioners@liverpool.gov.uk, it is within the council's space and is just another email address.

There are no details of how to encrypt messages to protect them from prying eyes, so it is a fairly good bet that long before the addresses get a chance to read the emails, they have already been vetted by LCC staff. The staff do have form for blocking email addresses when it suits them without notifying anyone, and only hard work by exposing these blocks. Even when caught red-handed, they somehow cannot ID who instigated them.

While the Echo and its former editor Alistair McCray are knee-deep in some of the council's staff's crooked behaviour, even they found it worth publishing an article detailing the corruption. See Liverpool Council accused of snooping after "intercepting" emails between resident and councillor. The question is why did the normal servile Echo and its rather useless Thorpe publish this story; was it a shot across the bow?

There is no telling how many other people are on the council's hit list.

The lead commissioner is no stranger to not answering emails and helping to cover up corruption. The recent murder by a serving Met Police officer, using his warrant card as a tool brings into question the ability and integrity of all senior police officers connected with ensuring police standards.

FYI from https://liverpool.gov.uk/council/commissioners/about-the-commissioners/

Lead Commissioner – Mike Cunningham QPM

Mike has been involved in policing for more than 30 years, most recently as Chief Executive of the College of Policing from 2018 – 2020, the standards setting body for policing in England and Wales. Formerly one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Constabulary, inspecting forces in the north of England and Northern Ireland, and the national lead inspector for the development and implementation of inspections into police efficiency, legitimacy and leadership, and Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police.

Local Government Improvement Commissioner - Joanna Killian

Joanna has more than 30 years of experience in the public sector delivering transformational change and service improvement. Since March 2018, she has been Chief Executive of Surrey County Council. Prior to this, Joanna worked at KPMG and was also Chief Executive of Essex County Council for 9 years.

Highways Commissioner - Neil Gibson

Neil is the former Executive Director of Transport Economy and Environment for Buckinghamshire County Council, where he also acted for a time as Interim Chief Executive. Neil is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation and former President of the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport.

Regeneration Commissioner - Deborah McLaughlin

Deborah has extensive experience working in Regeneration and Housing for over 30 years across public and private sectors, including as Director of Housing at Manchester City Council, regional director for the North West at Homes England and Director of Capita’s real estate business. Deborah has also previously worked at the Audit Commission as a Best Value Inspector and auditor.

Chief and Deputy Chief of Staff

The commissioner team will be accompanied by a Chief of Staff, Chrissie Farrugia and a Deputy Chief of Staff, Ellie Smyllie. Both are civil servants appointed by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

IOPC Fig leaf.

My local MP was recently very critical of the Metropolitan Police because of the way they treated her son. This treatment seems to involve asking him for ID. When it comes to holding Merseyside Police and the IOPC to account for their treatment of other people over many years, she or at least her staff, seem far less interested in getting involved.
MPs of all persuasions want to court the Law and Order lobby or at least not get the Daily Mail on their case, and as such, they simply ignore most complaints. The same is true of Police & Crime Commissioners, when it comes to taking on the bullies, liars and thugs that inhabit police forces MPs will only get involved if the complainant already has a lot of public backing.
This MP and her staff are "of the left" loudly labelled SJW by the right. In reality like most MPs, they are preoccupied with their own interests; the top one is staying elected.
Some of her supporters like to claim we live in a police state when their protests are shut down. One, a former deputy PCC, Ann O'Byrne, tried to reestablish her credibility by getting herself removed for obstruction and then complaining about being manhandled. In reality, what she got was proportionate and the kind of things she had happily supported when a PCC. O'Bryne isn't the brightest or the most credible of councillors, but she is typical.
We don't live in a police state that would require the police to be acting on the arbitrary instructions of government ministers. What we are seeing is the police as a gang running a protection racket. The elected won't dig too deep into the Polices's internal wall of silence and coverups, and the Police & its militant wing, the Police Federation, will not stir up the Law & Order Lobby.
The Law & Order Lobby, a phrase Jane Kennedy doesn't understand, is mostly right-wing Tory voting, so it is harder to stir it up against a Tory government, which is why they get away with cutting police numbers. The Tories, of course, are fans of the short sharp shock and clip around the ear; in short, they quite like police brutality.
The far left of the Labour party is more interested in their ideology and will only talk about the police when it fits those grand overarching plans, plans, no space for sensible considered practical reform here.
The centre-left, the area I come from, is too worried by the reaction of the law and order lobby and its Daily Mail publicists to do anything; they definitely wouldn't put it in a manifesto.

 

Apauling

Imagine being a court usher and not knowing the rules about photography in  the courts. I've done a bit of photography in my time and have a good idea about them. Now in one instance a former court clerk I'd asked to explain the rules to me got them all wrong it is difficult to imagine something so dangerous. It could have been ignorance the only other alternative would be that he was trying to get me in trouble with the court and that would be apauling.

Now you see them, now you don't.

It seems the Independent Office for Police Conduct, IOPC, is just the IPCC in disguise, right down to the corrupt staff. Take Micheal Williams doesn't seem to be able to read properly, when told that contact with exIPCC members is not allowed  just stops signing emails.
No word from the big man Michael Lockwood on the actual complaint that is just ignored after trying to pass the entire thing of as an SRA.
IOPC helping improve police cover ups since 2017.