Conclusive evidence not grounds for reinvestigation
In February of last year Merseyside Police arrested someone and ceased some of his property for the investigation. When the detained person noticed that the manifest did not agree with the objects seized. Several where missing. So he complained about this. The rather corrupt, and likely criminal Inspector Damien Walsh dismisses the complaint, so it was appealed to the IPCC, who agreed with Inspector Walsh and dismissed the complaint.
In the following few months bits of equipment where returned and eventually only one bit was missing, in fact several bits had been returned that where not on the manifest. In an attempt to get the one bit that was missing back and was told that despite the fact that equipment was returned that wasn't on the manifest this could be the subject of a complaint about the bad manifest because that complaint had already been investigated.

Group 4
The mooting of the idea that Private companies could take on some of the work of the Police has sent the Police excuse Bloging machine into overdrive.
There are several interesting aspects to this.
1. The police, or at least the bloggers, see everyone who have a problem with them as being hard core left wing, who are fighting a class war.
2. The police don't seem to think that anyone could actually be critical of them and not have imagined anything worse, where as to be honest everyone know the police could be a lot lot worse.
What most of the critics of the police want is a better Police force than we currently have, one that is properly held accountable for it's actions and where the same law applies to us all, no more special treatment, no more turning blind eyes, to the miss behaviour of other officers. Proper supervision by an independent 3rd part rather than cosy in house investigations by PSD.
This reaction shows how self absorbed the police are or how political the entire force is.

All hands to the Trough

Bill in Macho pose.

It appears that Councillor Bill Overweightnan hasn't had enough at the trough as head of Merseyside Police authority he is intending to stand for election of the Police and Crime Commissioner. Bill has a somewhat dodge record when it comes to his tenure at MPA first there is the dishonesty in statements to the court. Which could either be the result of stupidity or perjury. Then there is the failure to release documents under FOI act, which would have shown those statements to be inaccurate and the ICO judgement in that case.
I can only assume that he fancies the extra cash this position will give him, though it will afford him the opportunity to cover up his previous actions. Who knows some new candidate may be tempted to go looking through some of the dodgy behaviour under his management.
We should also remember his decision to sell the main Bridewell, after it had stood empty and unused for many years while the price of properties in the area boomed and to sell it at the first crash?

Update
Must correct my self earlier it wasn't Inspector Harrison that I saw waiting outside the Mags sometime ago. Just after he had overheard the security guards saying something. It was the St Annes street inspector who was there last October when I went along to get my property back.
What did the Security guards say?

Kopperas Hill
A lovely little story in today's Echo regarding the arrest off DS Greg Symon, 39, DC Christopher Sheron and DC Mark Scarratt, 43 together with 5 others for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, regarding a pub brawl some of them where in at a Derby match in January 2012.

Merseyside police officers facing conspiracy charges after Merseyside derby day clash.

A story from Hell
Well, a quick read of the latest story on Solicitors from Hell is quite interesting as it mentions one of this Blogs regular characters Inspector Damien Walsh.
The Para involving Damien is 
"A week later (while passing further evidence into a Local Government Office) I received a further threat by phone from Inspector Walsh of Merseyside Police Professional Standards Department telling me “You heard what the Judge said, so you'll be putting those complaint's to bed now, won't you? As I don't ****  around like the others”".
Damien is quite happy to make threats, now however he is no longer a part of Merseyside Police.

The show might go on.
Well the 10th Jan has come and gone with no news of the future schedule of DCI Mike Lawlor, no news of upcoming dates in either the Mags or Crown court. So despite enquiries of the press and other places nothing has been heard. Does this mean that all future performances have been cancelled or is it just that I was to lazy to leg it down to  the court myself on 10th Jan and it was to boring for anyone else to go either?

Extra Dates
Merseyside top light entertainer and DCI has add a new date to his current tour. Mike Lawlor has been rebooked for the 10th January 2012 at Liverpool Magistrates Court on Dale Street. Though details are unclear this is likely to be a 1 time only performance of his committal to the Crown court. There are no tickets, seats will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Doors open at 9.30 for a start as early as 9.45. For further details see the Echo.

If you knew and did nothing then you are complicit.

Some reading material for Brian Ashton amongst others.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.


When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle

DCI appears in the cheap seats at Mags.
After several months on bail DCI Mike Lawlor has been charged and allegedly appeared before Liverpool Mags today, charged with 6 counts of "unauthorised accessing of personal data controlled by police". No info on who's data, why or the fate of 3 others on bail accused of aiding and abetting. Yet again no comments allowed on the Echo web site.
See Top Merseyside police detective to face court over allegations of files being snooped on

All Walshed Up
Interesting conversation today with Persey Mig. Phoned up and asked to speak to Damien Walsh and was told "there is no officer of that name". So the big question is did he jump or was he pushed? He must have been getting near retirement age. I'll ask Persey for an explanation but I doubt I'll get one.

Shit floats

It turns out that Andy Williams dishonesty has been rewarded by a promotion from just vacillating at a low level in LHT he now vacillates at a much higher level. It seems that there is no limit to the levels you can get to in LHT by helping pervert the course of justice.
Seems that here he is concerned about others criminality but not his own.

Other IPCC still lives.
The London based IPCC has set it's Northern Office in Manchester the complex task of investigating a copper trying to set some one up for breaching an order. How very very unusual.
We must hope that the tent that houses the Northern fig leaf doesn't spring a leak and destroy the documents.

The great white whale
You have Mail all explained here.

Fired or retired?
----- Forwarded Message -----

Your message could not be sent.
A transcript of the attempts to send the message follows.
The number of attempts made: 1
Addressed To: damien.a.walsh@merseyside.police.uk

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:07:10 +0100
Failed to send to identified host,
damien.a.walsh@merseyside.police.uk: [10.38.8.1], 550 damien.a.walsh@merseyside.police.uk... No such user
--- Message non-deliverable.

Mr Lloyd goes to Cardiff
Not content with loosing the constituency for Labour in the General election, Chris Lloyd has now set his sights a little lower and is going for defeat in the Welsh Assembly. It will be interesting to see how much rubbish he manages to talk on the way to loosing his deposit.

Penguin

A Carneynal Sin.
Rob Carney, MP Louise Ellman's constituency hindrance, made some interesting statements to the Police a while ago. In those statements he admitted that for a period of several years he had summarily deleted emails from a constituent to his boss Louise Ellman. That he had on recognising the constituents voice on the phone hung up.
Rob Carney also claimed that he was upset that the constituent had Googled his name and as a result found out that he had a Facebook account with the security setting set to Public. He was so upset by this that he did the same to the constituent he found some illustrations entered in a competition for a £500 prize, that the constituent had entered. He concluded that the picture of a dictator penguin, a close relative of the King and Emperor penguin, represented a self portrait of the constituent.

Carney

These Carney admits, he doesn't admit doing a gumby impression down the phone, but he did that as well.
A similarly bizarre set of allegation where made by Chris Lloyd Ellmans Westminster office help. In these Lloyd, the former Labour Candidate for Brecon and Radnorshire expresses surprise that anyone should have read his election material, put out for the 2010 general election, much less actually used the contact information to contact him.
At least Lloyd has some political ambition be warned, Labour Party voters, these idiots could be looking for you vote at some point.

How police interview.

And how the complaint is investigated.

Watching the Detectives

Looking at me in a funny way


Constable Savage now works for Merseyside Police under the name Inspector Damien Walsh.