What do Alastair MacRae, Alison Gow, Andy Gill and an anonymous Echo arsehole have in common that makes them unsuitable to be journalists?
Now rebranded as the Very Office for Police Conduct. The personal opinions of the author throughout.
What do Alastair MacRae, Alison Gow, Andy Gill and an anonymous Echo arsehole have in common that makes them unsuitable to be journalists?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fitzgerald & McLaughlin are on the left. |