South Yorkshire police officer jailed for blackmailing suspect
PC Marie Thompson sentenced to 40 months after posing as anonymous ‘paedophile hunter’ to extort £3,500
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The behaviour of UK police officers.
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theprestige
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Amazing that she didn't even think to use a burner phone for her nonsense.South Yorkshire police officer jailed for blackmailing suspect
PC Marie Thompson sentenced to 40 months after posing as anonymous ‘paedophile hunter’ to extort £3,500
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The police officer, found guilty of assaulting a black woman who refused to show her Oyster card during a transport ticketing check in London, has been cleared, with a slap on the wrist for calling her a "daft cow".
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"Police had earlier arrested Mr Roper at his home for breach of the peace and drove him almost four miles away before leaving him to walk back with no shoes, socks, mobile phone or money."
He then got hit by a car and died.
The police have a duty of care to ensure arrested people can get safely home.
He then got hit by a car and died.
The police have a duty of care to ensure arrested people can get safely home.
Why was he only demoted?"Police had earlier arrested Mr Roper at his home for breach of the peace and drove him almost four miles away before leaving him to walk back with no shoes, socks, mobile phone or money."
He then got hit by a car and died.
The police have a duty of care to ensure arrested people can get safely home.
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This isn't even all that unusual. A woman who uses a mobility scooter was arrested for taking photos of some ribbons someone else had tied round (I think) a lamp post. She was released from the police station in the middle of the night with no way to get home.
This sounds even worse though. They took him out into the countryside and just left him there?
This sounds even worse though. They took him out into the countryside and just left him there?
Echoes of the Saskatchewan "starlight tours". A horrible euphemism for police killing of indigenous men, over decades, and into this century with no prosecutions if I remember correctly.
Rolfe
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That's not something I was aware of. Sounds appalling.
The Wikipedia page is one where edits have to be approved, because references to those on the Saskatoon police page were repeatedly deleted from an unidentified computer from within the Saskatoon police.
Rolfe
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That's disgraceful.
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Perhaps you don't have an inner racist to be unleased by the power of Murphys?
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Met police’s culture makes racial harm ‘inevitable’, internal review finds
The review, the first to focus on the racism of the institution as a whole, found a culture and leadership determined to prevent real change
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As a surprise to no one:
…snip….
The report says: “Anti-black outcomes in policing are not random. They have been built in.
…..snip….
Daniels said of her report: “It examines the institution itself, showing how the Met’s systems, governance, leadership and culture produce racial harm, whilst simultaneously protecting the institution from reform. This is not an account of individual incidents but a diagnosis of the structures that makes racial harm a consistent recurring pattern.”
Met police’s culture makes racial harm ‘inevitable’, internal review finds
The review, the first to focus on the racism of the institution as a whole, found a culture and leadership determined to prevent real change
As a surprise to no one:
…snip….The report says: “Anti-black outcomes in policing are not random. They have been built in. …..snip….Daniels said of her report: “It examines the institution itself, showing how the Met’s systems, governance, leadership and culture produce racial harm, whilst simultaneously protecting the institution from reform. This is not an account of individual incidents but a diagnosis of the structures that makes racial harm a consistent recurring pattern.”
Maybe they should have had some public inquiries, and if they found systemic institutional racism in an institutionally corrupt organisation, I'm sure something would have been done.
It does provide yet more evidence for my conclusion that the barrel has long been spoilt. All those "just one bad apple" come from putting good apples into the barrel. This goes back decades upon decades, for at least my entire lifetime we've known the Met was not fit for purpose, yet there has never been the political will to deal with it.
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Hello darkness, my old friend.
"Police had earlier arrested Mr Roper at his home for breach of the peace and drove him almost four miles away before leaving him to walk back with no shoes, socks, mobile phone or money."
He then got hit by a car and died.
The police have a duty of care to ensure arrested people can get safely home.
It gets worse I think.
Mum demands sergeant's sacking after son's hit-and-run death
Gareth Roper was found dead on the roadside after Greater Manchester Police left him miles from home.
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De-arrested after 9 minutes and left by Iceland with his clothes next to him.
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A serving police officer is facing a prison sentence after taking weapons home, including six shotguns that were surrendered to him.
Alan Sharp took possession of the firearms after a man opted against renewing his shotgun licence due to old age.
Sharp, who qualified as Firearms Enquiry Officer (FEO) in 2015, was later the subject of an internal probe over concerns he had failed to carry out proper checks on those applying for gun certificates.
At the High Court in Glasgow the 52-year-old admitted three charges under the Firearms Act and another of wilful neglect of police duty.
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Alan Sharp took possession of the firearms after a man opted against renewing his shotgun licence due to old age.
Sharp, who qualified as Firearms Enquiry Officer (FEO) in 2015, was later the subject of an internal probe over concerns he had failed to carry out proper checks on those applying for gun certificates.
At the High Court in Glasgow the 52-year-old admitted three charges under the Firearms Act and another of wilful neglect of police duty.
Serving Police Scotland officer admits taking seized guns home - BBC News
PC Alan Sharp kept six shotguns in a secure unit at his home after a man surrendered them.
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A serving police officer is facing a prison sentence after taking weapons home, including six shotguns that were surrendered to him.
Alan Sharp took possession of the firearms after a man opted against renewing his shotgun licence due to old age.
Sharp, who qualified as Firearms Enquiry Officer (FEO) in 2015, was later the subject of an internal probe over concerns he had failed to carry out proper checks on those applying for gun certificates.
At the High Court in Glasgow the 52-year-old admitted three charges under the Firearms Act and another of wilful neglect of police duty.
Serving Police Scotland officer admits taking seized guns home - BBC News
PC Alan Sharp kept six shotguns in a secure unit at his home after a man surrendered them.
I did that job, when I was in the police. You need to be organised, to keep on top of all of the work and it looks like he was very disorganised, rather than acting criminally. I think it is wrong he is likely to go to prison.