Journalists

There are many things that journalists do that I find unacceptable. It seems they also find them unacceptable, but only when done to them.

Can you imagine the fuss a journalist would make if you went to their homes and knocked on their door to ask them questions early in the morning or perhaps just set up camp outside?

Can you imagine the fuss a journalist would make if you called them on their home phone number, which they hadn't given you?

Can you imagine what would happen if you phoned up a newspaper and used the services of their PABX to call random numbers to get some information about the paper by talking to staff who aren't customer-facing?

I have never been doorstepped and haven't doorstepped anyone. Journos are happy to admit they doorstep people and will post videos. Their excuse is the public interest, which seems to be a valid excuse anyone could use.

I never actually called a journalist at home, but I have been called up by one from the Liverpool Echo. Who abused me by trotting out a whole collection of allegations angrily and aggressively. When the journo realised that they'd been fed lies, they apologised and explained who had fed them the nonsense. They then wrote a story of someone suffering harassment. Oh, wait, no they didn't. Instead, they became more and more uncertain and then hung up without explaining anything. The paper now denies the phone call ever happened. They claim to have searched their records for the call, but they never asked for the number I'd been on at the time. I'd changed my number several times since then.

When I worked for various companies in a technical capacity, we would often work late. Between 6:30 and 7, also at weekends, we'd quite regularly get phone calls from industry journos, who knew full well that all the marketing and PR staff had gone home. They'd spend a fair bit of time trying to get unguarded comments from staff to sell. However, the Echo regards doing this kind of research on it as beyond the pale.

Never forget, journos are in it for money, as are their employers. They think they provide a valuable service, talk truth to power, and are the fourth estate. Judging by the state of the world, they aren't very good at it. Perhaps we should ask for our money back. They haven't done much recently to earn the privileges that they have endowed themselves with.

The Liverpool Echo is a stable-mate of The Mirror, whose former editor, Piers Moron, was not just fired like Boris Johnson, for lying but faking photos. He and the Mirror, and quite likely some of its Trinity Mirror stable mates, engaged in and benefited from phone hacking. It is difficult to believe that information obtained by the Mirror that didn't warrant a national news story but would sell a few local rags didn't make its way to local editors.

Then there is the little matter of contempt of court. Contempt is a serious matter, potentially landing papers and editors with a fine. I tried to get the numbers for contempt cases faced by editors, but there is no record. When I posted the details of an Echo contempt case, journalists were happily dismissing contempt as being part of the job. Can you imagine the fuss the Echo and co would make if someone else considered criminal behaviour as just part of the job?

Alastair Machray. You are a habitual journalist who accepts contempt as an occupational hazard and presumable accepts imprisonment in the same casual manner.

 

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.

Winsford Academy, watch out watchout there is a Walsh about.

Damien Walsh, the desperately flawed ex-police officer, has gained a job as the Behaviour Manager at Winsford Academy. Damien will be taking his brand of egotistically bulling into a new sphere.

If you have a complaint about a teacher, then do not take it to Damien or let him have anything to do with investigating it. As an inspector at Merseyside Police, he spent considerable time intimidating and threatening people who made complaints.

Damien is a craven coward who will always back authority and the officers no matter how wrong they are. The mistakes they have made are irrelevant because they are the law. Often he would not even ask the nature or details of the complaint but would begin the meeting or call with threats. He has no integrity at all.

 

Ged Fitzgerald

Back in May the CEO of the Liverpool City Council was arrested the only real surprise was that the arrest was for "on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice and intimidating witnesses." did not seem to relate to his time at LCC. Who is supposed to have been intimidated has not been made clear, and Fitzemup's bail has been extended to the 22nd of August, all the while he is on fully paid bail leave, though apparently still available to Joe Anderson and other members of the Scallocracy.

In the absence of Fitzinacell the level of dodgy, possibly criminal staff at the top of LCC is being patched over by the temporary elevation of Chris Walsh and Jeanette McLaughlin, City Solicitor & Monitoring Officer. The first provides false statements to the police while the second engages in full investigations which produce no results, either to the complainant via either the complaints process or the Data Protection Act.

Fitzgerald had late in 2016 been caught out lying to the Local Government Ombudsman and the Information Commissioner, but so far that matter does not have a court date. He is less than popular with the ICO after promising statements from 3rd parties, supporting his allegations regarding a complainant, which they noted he "failed to produce".

Fitzgerald & McLaughlin are on the left.

Chris Walsh in the waistcoat.

Stop Press, August 23, 2022.

See Court News

Good deal from LCC

Are Merseyside police getting land for new HQ to cheap? See Here.

Ged Stamper

The first obstacle you will come across when trying to deal with Merseyside police, is Stamper Ged Kenneth Gerard.K.Stamper@merseyside.police.uk Sergeant S&A Threat Harm Risk, I know what sergeant means but the rest who knows.
Threat to who? Harm to who? Risk to who? he is obviously quite proud of it as he has it on his email. The S&A presumably stands for stall & abandon, though it could be anything. From all the info I can gather someone getting near to retiring, and balder than me.

He is apparently very proud of Merseyside police, in fact so proud he is quite happy to cover up for people like Damian Wash, Constable Edge, John Smyth etc. He must be quite happy with his contribution to keeping what has been brushed under the carpet, brushed under the carpet.

My advice is, don't deal with him, he basically a snide little shit, quite happy to avoid the problem by stating that we have stamped the documents, therefore it is over. The law honesty and integrity don't bother him as long as the forms have been filled in then they define reality.

He has appeared in some corruption cases but they seem to be more to do with morals, rather than behaviour as a copper, is perhaps Stamper suffering from a bit of religion, he doesn't seem to care about the effect that cops have on real people, only that god may be offended, or at least his vision of god, perhaps the Jesuits at SFX did a thorough job on him.

The dark arts of transcribing police interviews.

1. Everything said by the person being interviewed shall be written in capital letters to give the impression they are shouting.
2. Everything said by the interviewer will be written in the correct mix of upper and lower case.
3. Any grammatical error made by the person being interviews will be included.
4. Any grammatical error made by the interviewer will be omitted
5. Any requests made by the subject for definitions of words used will be included.
6. Any request for definitions made by the interviewing officer will be omitted, unless slang. e.g. "obsequious"
7. Any words mispronounce by the subject will be spelt phonetically.
8. Any words mispronounced by the interviewer will be correctly spelt. e.g. "anti path e" to antipathy.
9. All instance of the interviewee pointing out that the question being asked is loaded will be omitted, only the refusal to answer will be noted.
10. Any time that both the interviewer and interviewee are both talking will be described as the interviewee talking over the interviewer.
11. Any attempts by the interviewee to provide a full answer will be described as rambling.
12. Any attempt by the interviewee to assert themselves will be described as hostility, aggression or ranting.
13. Any attempt by the interviewer to assert themselves will be described as "calming the situation down".

Lies and more lies.

Turns out the most honest thing is Merseyside Police is the mail bouncing. Send an email to
1384@merseyside.police.uk and get a bounce.

Gunatilleke Nicholas

To XXXXXX

Today at 2:47 PM

I will be on Annual Leave unitl Wednesday 31st December  2015

If your enquiry is urgent please email DCI Christopher Sefton or Hazel Fothergill

The really interesting bit is the spelling, makes it clear that the PA to the Chief Constable told more lies than I thought in my conversation with her.In what world is lying not offensive and abusive?

Wenstone.

Wenstone.

Derbyshire.

Also popular in Derbyshire 86.191.165.0. so popular that updates trigger an email.

Loyal reader

I wonder who my most loyal reader 94.175.230.0 -> 94.175.230.63 is?

Nick Nick Nick? or one of Nick Nick Nick's mates.

Constable 1384 Nick Gummer-tellery.

What a delightful day of telephone talks with Merseyside Police, first there is the always enjoyable process of getting past reception, they now claim to be trained in the law. I have to say it doesn't show. Is it that the police are spending the cash on solicitors to answer the phone or is it that the receptionists are lying. Some of the higher up ones in the Chief cons office are so up themselves that they will not even repeat a name they have used or spell it out, but somehow think themselves not rude.
Anyway, back to Nick apparently Nick doesn't can't investigate things that happened in the past. So presumably that means he only investigates crimes while they are going on, in the case of a stabbing while the knife is still in the victim.
When someone has said it wasn't a crime, then it is all over, even if the person making the claim hasn't investigated, hasn't looked just feels that it would be inconvenient for someone if the truth came out. For people like Nick, reality is determined by what people in authority say is reality, no messing about with the actual reality, it is a quasi religious view.
However, there may well be something else going on with Nick, when told that evidence was going to still be collected, questions still going to be asked, there was the sound of a sneer in his voice when he said, "and what are you going to do when it you have it", which sounds very much like a boast that he and his mates have control of the judicial system, you only get access if they want, and no matter what proof you have it useless unless we give it the nod.
In schools there are several different types of bully, one of the nastier types is the type that uses teachers to do their bullying, they are goody little two shoes as far as the teachers are concerned, but they have the teachers wrapped around their finger, if you annoy these snide little bullies or don't do what they want, then they drop you in shit with TPTB, this sounds a lot like quiet a few coppers.
I imagine that in the Milgram experiment, there would have been some outliers begging to give bigger shocks to appease the boss. Police corruption and incompetence flourish because of the servile nature of the cops, some of them are still prepared to give the "I was only following orders" a try out.
The reality is I don't want to spend the next 15-20 years like the last, and that is what Nick & Co are offering, without an understanding and acceptance of what happened in the past, then it will repeat itself.

Police Political Badge

Why are the police wearing a political badge, adding to their uniform, a reasonable question to ask a copper but what a surprise no answer.

No Names, No Number and No Rank

Can anyone work out what the name is here? It is Jon Murphy;s staff officer, after she said the name the person would not repeat it.

If anyone knows please comment.

Back to Brabners

It appears the evil empire that was Brabner, Chaffe and Street, has no shortened it name down to that of the original company Brabners. The other option was the The Crimson Permanent Assurance.

Arts Vigilantes.

What do Bob Scriven, Margaretha Schoening and Sue Leask have in common other than an address?
Perhaps conspiracy to pervert the courses of justice?
A life spent pilfering from the public purse via 3rd rate arts projects?
Perhaps just stupidity and gullibility?
Perhaps criminal conspiracy?
Anyway, all will out soon.