A Manchester mother is demanding an apology from the local police force for sending officers in a riot van to check that her 12 year-old daughter was self-isolating. The young girl was left “petrified” after officers shouted through the house to see if she had been following the rules, according to her mother. The home was visited twice, leading the girl to believe “she was going to get arrested at any moment”. The MailOnline has the story.
Officers visited the home of Kathryn Crook in Middleton, Greater Manchester, to check that Charlotte, 12, was adhering to Covid guidance after catching the virus.
Ms Crook, 45, says her daughter was terrified by the experience, alleging the behaviour of Rochdale Public Health Officers and Greater Manchester Police was “inappropriate and heavy-handed”.
She is now urging those involved to apologise for what she says was “overkill”.
Officers first visited the family home on July 11th and asked to speak directly to Charlotte, before quizzing her mother on whether she was self-isolating.
Ms Crook said: “They would not tell me and my husband why they wanted to speak to my daughter.
“I suggested again that she was only 12 and as her mother, I should be the one they should speak to.
“My daughter by this time was stood behind me crouching thinking she had done something wrong and was petrified.
“The female police officer who stood at our door then proceeded to shout through to my daughter to check she had been isolating.
“I spent Monday trying to find out why this had happened only to be told by Rochdale Public Health Department that they had authorised this to happen.”
The furious mother later wrote to her MP Chris Clarkson to express her concern, and his office is now investigating the incident.
She added: “During Monday we also received a letter addressed to our daughter from Rochdale council stating that she must get in touch with them as a matter of urgency about her isolating.
“I called the phone line and they said it was standard practice, even though the leaflet read as if aimed at an adult. I was also told the person who had signed it no longer works there.”
Ms Crook says the family then received another visit from GMP on June 12th.
“We settled down and just after 9pm got a knock at the door,” she said.
“It was the police again, this time in a riot van and coming to ‘check’ again that my daughter was isolating.
“Me and my husband were so annoyed by this. The neighbours had also seen all of this and came out to show their support for us.
“They could see what had happened and a riot van in the street is a bit much. This time, however, the policeman was polite and was much more forthcoming than the two that had been the previous night.
“It was terribly upsetting again for my daughter and she had another meltdown again thinking the police were going to arrest her.”
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This police officer shouldn’t apologize; she should be dismissed and barred for life from holding any government or local authority function. The should still leave plenty of authoritarian jobs at social media companies and left wing hate groups.
If you refuse to answer or open the door, do they have rights to break in to check you are at home isolating?
Ludicrously they actually think test and trace can do something to stop the spread of this virus. The case was handed to the police because the contact tracer was not allowed to speak to the child personally. A total waste of police time. The child had tested positive though asymptomatic and not likely to be infectious.
I have the utmost respect for the majority of police officers, but the police force _ I refuse to call it a service – is managed by incompetents at behest to a government that has launched an unparalleled assault on freedom of speech and civil liberties.
The police probably recorded this as a solved crime as the police, as an entity, has little interest in dealing with proper crime.
Unfortunately, my son has taken a test. However, if the police or any omnipotent moral busy bodies call at my door I’ll tell them to bugger off.
Stasi state, Stasi police, Stasi behaviour; it is what we have become. Democractic and accountable it isn’t.
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Sounds like a police state to me. The police need to trust that we, the public, are not all completely stupid. Do we really need the nanny state to come and check we are in bed with the lights out?? This is the sort of thing that happens in countries where the police act like thugs and henchmen of the government. What on earth do they put in their tea? And what training do they receive? It’s totally inexcusable. I hope it’s not a sign of things to come.
Yet the biggest criminals in the country are waking about scott free. Pig dictator, Hancock, SAGE, Fergusen et al. Can’t remember the riot police turning up when Blair was supposed to be isolating after his trip abroad.
Disgusting behaviour by the Police. They wonder why people now hate them.
I wonder if any of those police have children and how they would feel if it were their 12 yr old daughter? And who reported her? Some neighbour snitching on the government propaganda’s advice.🤬
Greater Manchester Police, known for their aggressive and thug-like attitude to the public, now child abusers.
The comments on the original article in the MEN were atrocious. Many accusing the mum of being over dramatic and just wanting compensation; they praised the police for stopping rampant infection ripping through the area; many ignoring mum’s concerns about the need for and manner of the ‘visit’ but instead, they focused on the type of vehicle used and mum’s poor description of it.
There were very few who expressed any concern about the sinister aspects behind frightening a 12 year old child in this way.
Shocking.
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Yes, the main issue of course, is that the police should not have even gone there in the first place.
The appropriate response in this circumstance is an amazed smile and “Have you got my bike back?!”
No wonder people delete that “app”. Disgusting. Sick until proven healthy – what a lot of nonsense. No freedom while this crap is going on.
Never mind, back to normal next week – unless they have another 3 weeks to flatten the curve…
One of the overwhelming features of the lockdown madness is that the police have proven themselves to be institutionally stupid.
Wake up people – they are not your friends.
A Covid-only police force.
See how fast they respond to a burglary.
They don’t respond to burglaries, only ‘hate crimes’.
The intended damage being dealt on children by the establishment knows no bounds. While the police are terrorising the family of a young child regarding covid isolation, other children are being subjected to this sort of degenerate shit.
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Holy cow! That story is …. I dunno, beyond bizarre. Just what sort of a world has this become? Fucking diabolical.
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I’ve been surprised by how so many people have let the police just trample all over their rights and liberties. I’d just refuse to open the door, give em short shrift from a window and then ignore them full stop.
Exactly. The moment you interact constructively with them, you implicitly accept their authority over you. So – just ignore them from the start. If you haven’t done anything wrong, the law supports you – see case law Neale v DPP.
Yet again, Steyn summed it up:
“ ‘In Britain, everything is policed except crime’
It has become very apparent that British policemen are very aggressive when dealing with the passive, and very passive when dealing with the aggressive.”
Well, while I think there must be some good people in the police, you have to consider the motivation for an element who want to become officers of the law. For some, the ability to exert authority over others must seem quite appealing.
And, it is far easier of course, to exert their ‘authority’ over the more passive/innocent type of person.
Good people do not join ‘The Police’.
I’ve met a few competent and pleasant Police but they are outnumbered by the other kind.
Doctors too.
There’s not even any logic to this: In order to “check up” on this person, the police had to be present in close proximity to the members of the household, enforcing a breaking of the isolation rules anyway!
If there’s anyone who should be “checked up on” it’s the crooked police commissioners who think they can authorize anything so long covid is part of the excuse.
Dinnnngggg!
The police are one of the main instruments of the state opression. That’s their role.
Not servants of the public.
Yep. Like HR departments are to protect the company from staff, not the other way around.
A striking example of what the people running the Corona-show consider “sensible use of public resources”. To them, their irrational fears always come first. Secondly, the come again. Then once more. And a fourth time after a short pause. And then starts the “we have no money for …” chorus, with “…” representing anything else.
Astounding unselfishness.
They should arrest the person who authorised this, its the only way they’ll learn.
What the F… has this country come to!!! This is more than beyond belief.
Ah, Middleton, a borough of Rochdale. Usually the police there are a lot more considerate to their clients and don’t usually enquire after the welfare of young girls in their houses.
That’s how I like it, a nice portion of sarcasm.
Meanwhile, the elite don’t have to self-isolate. You think they’re on the app?
No they were told not to download it. It was recommended at the Supermarket where I work not to use it and if you did download it, to make sure it was switched off at work.
Britain 2021. Enjoy.
For a little perspective, yes it’s a van used in disorder, but it’s usually assigned to neighbourhood officers for day to day stuff. The size of the van has no real bearing on this. As an ex cop myself, I’m absolutely astonished they have time for this. Prior to leaving GMP 10 years ago we had no time for burglaries and assaults, never mind knocking on to check on kids isolating. I’m aware GMP is under even more pressure now too, so how this is a suitable use of resources astounds me. As a former response sergeant it was a battle getting some ‘cops’ out of the Nick never mind attending jobs, maybe this sort of easy ‘hit’ is their idea of work now? Honestly, utterly disgraceful. A friend of mine, whose son is off for the third time in 5 weeks had a visit because someone had seen him out and about. 30 days stuck at home and not ill, any wonder he said fuck it?
“For a little perspective, yes it’s a van used in disorder, but it’s usually assigned to neighbourhood officers for day to day stuff. The size of the van has no real bearing on this.”
Well, it’s not so much the size of the vehicle, as the type of vehicle. To my mind, assigning a ‘Mad Max’ type vehicle for trivial neighbourhood operations such as this (inc ‘non-hate crimes etc.) is inappropriate. It’s wrong. It’s … shite.
They simply don’t have enough vehicles, carriers (as these are) are the least used as you have to have a D1 on your licence to drive them, but when you need to go out then you use what you can get your hands on. No one decides who has what van, it’s usually the last vehicle on the board. It’s not a mad max type vehicle, it’s just got a grid you can cover the screen with (which no one knows how to use). Other than that it’s just a bigger van.
was it such an emergency that a foot patrol couldn’t have ambled past and quietly knocked on the door if someone had to go at all???
If they have serious shortages of vehicles, then perhaps it is partly self-inflicted? I mean, if the riot vans are typically the last available vehicles, then, having reached that point, why use a crucial/limited resource on trivial, non-urgent business?
I still maintain that riot vans are inappropriate for this type of business.
Sorry. No excuse. If it’s perceived as a mad max vehicle, then it IS a mad max vehicle. What next? Let’s take a rifle because there aren’t enough truncheons?
You’re correct. It’s aggressive and intimidating, just like when the idiots strut around with rifles and baseball caps and tell us they are reassuring us. Evil or thick?
A completely over-the-top reaction. I mean, you can hardly blame the police – with the mother having a name like Crook.
[I am having a dig at the police – just in case the sarcasm isn’t obvious.]
Now, seriously, WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!?!?
[Back to taking the piss] Well, for all those folk out there who whine after having property stolen/damaged, being threatened/harrassed, or various other petty incidents, and the police do not attend or seem interested … then here is evidence that the police, in actual fact, are run off their feet trying to respond to real issues out there. I bet you are all feeling a little embarrassed now, eh?
No. They are incapable of feeling embarrassed. They refuse to acknowledge their own shortcomings so they never address them. They always know best.