In my 25 years as a police officer before retiring in 2018, I witnessed, from the inside, the slow but steady transformation from a police force serving all members of the public and enforcing the law without fear or favour, to a police service which was essentially the paramilitary wing of the DEI industry. This was not the fault of the many hard-working constables and sergeants I worked alongside, although, of course there were some bad apples as there are in any organisation. The shift in culture was a result of lack of moral courage amongst many senior officers, who were more concerned with internal politics and their own careers than serving the public and providing strong leadership to support their staff on the front line. Since I retired this has been exemplified by the response, or lack of it, to the BLM protests in 2020 and, more recently, to the pro-Hamas marches. I accept that some officers didn’t help themselves with their draconian enforcement of the ridiculous Covid rules, sometimes even making up their own laws when it suited them. But, again, I feel that stronger leadership and a more independent-minded attitude from senior officers would have minimised this.
All of this brings me to a recent episode of a Channel 4 documentary series called ‘To Catch A Copper’. Each episode follows the work of the Professional Standards Department (PSD) of Avon and Somerset Police who investigate complaints against police officers and staff – for those who watch Line of Duty, a real-life AC12. It was filmed during peak Covid hysteria so there are lots of irritating masks and (anti)social distancing measures and it features the obligatory DEI indoctrination courses, etc. But, to be fair, most of the cases featured are as a result of completely unacceptable, sometimes criminal behaviour by police officers and support staff.
One incident, however, demonstrates the complete moral cowardice of Avon and Somerset Police and a total lack of support for several officers who, quite clearly, did nothing wrong.
The investigation was triggered by a video posted to social media by a local citizen journalist of a young black woman and her baby on a bus in Bristol being restrained by several police officers. There was no context and the running commentary clearly showed the contempt in which the man videoing it held the local constabulary. Needless to say, panic ensued at police headquarters until an investigator from PSD viewed the footage from the bus CCTV and the body-worn cameras of the officers involved.
The drama was triggered by the woman’s refusal to get off the bus, despite being unable to pay her fare and having been abusive to the bus driver. The two officers who initially attended the incident were completely calm and reasonable, even offering to give her and her baby, whom she had with her, a lift to where she wanted to go. At this she started to become more and more agitated saying she wouldn’t go in a ‘Fed’ car as she hadn’t done anything wrong. The stand-off continued with the woman becoming more and more aggressive for no reason, then talking to a friend on her phone telling them she was “about to knock out two Feds”. Understandably, the officers decided enough was enough and started to forcibly remove her from the bus, at which she kicked one of them, resulting in them trying to arrest her for assaulting a police officer. At this she grabbed her baby from the carry cot and started using her as a human shield and a struggle ensued with the baby in the middle of it, through no fault of the police. She then started shouting “I can’t breathe” and “you’re choking me” despite neither officer being anywhere near her neck, and then tried to bite one of them. She was, quite rightly, sprayed with incapacitant, and several more officers attended to assist, which is where the original social media video began.
The PSD investigator was quite clear that the officers had behaved reasonably, but, when the footage was shown to local, presumably self-appointed, ‘community leaders’ by a senior officer in a somewhat naive attempt to give them the full picture, they were having none of it. Apparently, nine out of 10 black people would refuse a lift in a ‘Fed’ car and every person of colour has an ingrained fear of white people as a result of slavery – or something – so her behaviour was perfectly understandable.
The senior officer chose not to rebut this patent nonsense and, instead, just nodded along despite it being quite clear that the officers had done nothing wrong. We were then treated to a self-flagellating speech on ‘institutionalised racism’ from the Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset before it transpired that the matter had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct by solicitors acting for the woman in question, resulting in the two officers involved being suspended from public-facing duties for the duration of the investigation, which took 12 months.
The IOPC, not surprisingly, also concluded that the officers had acted reasonably, but this was still not enough for the local ‘community leaders’ who refused to accept the IOPC decision on the basis that they were also ‘institutionally racist’. Bizarrely, the Chief Constable agreed with them and the end result was that the two officers were instructed to reflect on their behaviour and the cultural differences in play while the woman in question was never prosecuted for assaulting them. The icing on the cake is that three years after the incident the woman received financial compensation and a letter of apology for the “shocking, deeply distressing and humiliating” treatment she had received at the hands of Avon and Somerset Police.
Graham Low initially joined Sussex Police before transferring to Cheshire Police and working in various criminal investigation roles, retiring as a Detective Sergeant
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Morning clever DS people
i say clever but dogmatic is in there as well as lots of other superlatives I could use ! The reason for my praise is someone ( come forward ) lead me to Forrest Maready 
has anyone else had the pleasure ?
Not yet Freddy, but at least I know about him now and will take a look later and see what I think. Cheers.!
ok great
Morning Freddy…I looked him up and he has a Twitter page, so I’ll have a read, but he already looks interesting…but I would thank YOU for telling us about John Ward..
he is always brilliant and I wouldn’t have know about him if not for you….
(If anyone doesn’t know him..he’s well worth a read…)
https://therealslog.com/author/hat4uk/
Thanks Gums me old chum , I’m glad you remembered him , he’s actually moved to Ghana ! What a legend he is for a bloke in his 70,s
I keep scanning this section for an article with the first data from the energy sector detailing the extent to which the UK /European populations have been gaslit / priced out of using their central heating / power. What are the actual consumption signals? Anyone?
Always got time for Prof Fenton, and here’s a recent interview of his. An excerpt;
Forum: Your group was one of the first to look at all cause mortality and you recognized some interesting anomalies.
Fenton: Yes, if you want to really understand the safety of the vaccines, you need to analyze all-cause mortality. When we first looked at the ONS data for the UK vaccine program we saw a very strange correlation.
Incredibly, according to the ONS data, as the vaccines were released, there was a significant increase in deaths from other causes than COVID among the unvaccinated. These two statistics should be unrelated. The most likely explanation for this anomaly was that many of those who were dying shortly after vaccination were being classified as unvaccinated. Once the data are adjusted for this misclassification there is no evidence that the vaccines reduce all-cause mortality; rather, there is evidence it may cause an increase, especially in the younger age groups. This should have caused great concern and immediate intervention.
Forum: There is also confirmation of both deaths and serious complications from the vaccines, but these numbers are also ignored. Have you reviewed the data bases like VAERS [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System]?
Fenton: As of June 2022, we saw over 1.3 million adverse events showing in the VAERS database, a system widely accepted as flawed for underreporting. Even with these low numbers we knew that there had been about 30,000 deaths and over 165,000 hospitalizations caused by the COVID vaccines. In all previous years since VAERS began recording data, the total number of deaths reported from all vaccinations before COVID was around 10,000. So there are three times as many deaths reported from the COVID vaccine in two years, compared to all deaths from all other vaccines in the reporting over the last 30 odd years. This should be taken as an obvious signal, stopping the COVID vaccine program for reevaluation, but again these numbers are dismissed.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/forum-conversation-norman-fenton
Seems those deaths now stand at 32,370. Of course we know it’s but a fraction of the reality.
https://www.openvaers.com/
The Torygraph has 2 landing page articles pro onshore wind farms today.
Must have gotten a new funding source…
And when I saw da Princess was harping on about the under 5s, I was initially expecting another zoom ’em, mask ’em and inject ’em campaign.
But then, the Ukies are standing before Moscow and Putin has run out of ammunition since March according to this ‘paper’, so that gives me some hope that the onshore wind mutilation and r*pe of Britain’s landscape can still be prevented.
Or is it the country’s goal to be and look more like ugly Germany in those regards too?
Please read this article.
This is what I have been banging on about for months. This is the detailed explanation of what is being done to our economy, the reasons why and by whom. The evils being perpetrated against national populations is off the scale.
This writing blows cock-up theory out of the water. The wholesale destruction of our country is under way and will be relentless.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/welcome-to-planet-oligarch/
The latest interview with Mike Yeadon courtesy of World Council for Health;
https://rumble.com/v1wjapm-dr-mike-yeadon-why-the-depopulation-agenda-is-real-and-what-we-can-do-about.html
The vid stopped half way through. Have I done something wrong?
Strange. I had no probs…You could try another platform such as Bitchute;
https://www.bitchute.com/video/o0nK2uXX1FbN/
I got to the end eventually Mogs. Sometimes, listening to Dr Mike Yeadon I feel like I am in an echo chamber. He’s a great man.
Thanks for the link.
A WHO critic interviewed by Ivor Cummins. It is Dr. David Bell, an Australian guy with a fair bit of experience working with WHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja-EI__cXxI&list=WL&index=6 Just under 27 minutes.