Can the (Met) police ever change?
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Bromptonaut
Rohan Man
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- Bugbrooke, Northants
I was in the Sixth Form from 76-78 so well over 40 years ago.
More recently a past misdemeanour while teaching at a school in Rugby caught up with a guy who'd taught my teenage kids. He was jailed and barred from the profession.
He was one of the teachers who supervised my daughter at 17 on a World Challenge expedition in Ecuador. She and her mates were as shocked as everyone else when they read of his conviction.
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I see, dodgy b*stard in other words.
multitool
Shaman
AuroraSaab
Legendary Member
Sad indictment of how far trust in the police has fallen when a Headteacher cautions girl pupils about being approached by a lone policeman:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64344935
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64344935
mudsticks
Squire
“When a person is murdered, a family is murdered,” Aleena’s aunt, Farah Naz, told me last year. Aleena’s killing was avoidable. How many more women will it take before these systemic failures are addressed?
How many more indeed??
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...n-zara-aleena-murdered-jordan-mcsweeney-women
How many more indeed??
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...n-zara-aleena-murdered-jordan-mcsweeney-women
mudsticks
Squire
Yet still we must be everso polite, so as not to annoy anyone, and say this too ...
She clarified that she was "not suggesting for a moment that girls don't trust the police as an entire establishment" and she was not discouraging girls from finding a police officer if they were in trouble.
But she defended her warning to pupils that they should be wary, saying "the police have done a good enough job on their own of developing distrust from the public".
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
- Location
- South Tyneside
Quite.
mudsticks
Squire
The problems in wider police force, and the criminal justice system have already been brought up in this thread before.
If you wish to cease interacting with my posts, I suggest you do just that. It's absolutely fine by me.
I'm happy to reciprocate.
You could lay off the self appointed thread moderation role, whilst you're at it too.
AuroraSaab
Legendary Member
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11678645/One-ten-police-officers-shouldnt-vetting.html
I take it back. The vetting itself is the problem. Or rather not doing the vetting properly is the problem.
I think the expert here is right though. Now that forces are starting to trawl through historic complaints or notifications that were ignored and dismissed, it will be one bad story after another as they hoof them out or bring them to court. Better that than letting sleeping dogs lie though.
I take it back. The vetting itself is the problem. Or rather not doing the vetting properly is the problem.
I think the expert here is right though. Now that forces are starting to trawl through historic complaints or notifications that were ignored and dismissed, it will be one bad story after another as they hoof them out or bring them to court. Better that than letting sleeping dogs lie though.
multitool
Shaman
https://news.sky.com/story/two-of-d...-victim-sexually-suggestive-messages-12805388
I think this article gives an indication of the nature of the problem. Pockets of misogynistic and abusive culture within units rather than institutional. The institutional aspect is the failure or inability to deal with it. The sentence that stood out was that the victim told investigating detectives about the messages and "they seemed shocked" and told her not to answer. They investigated but NFA
I think this article gives an indication of the nature of the problem. Pockets of misogynistic and abusive culture within units rather than institutional. The institutional aspect is the failure or inability to deal with it. The sentence that stood out was that the victim told investigating detectives about the messages and "they seemed shocked" and told her not to answer. They investigated but NFA
Ian H
Guru
Many women think it is institutional.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-of-the-met-police?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
multitool
Shaman
Well, five, of whom only one appears to have direct experience, in this case the rape counsellor, and what she says is both compelling and worrying.
There is clearly a problem and it is not being dealt with effectively.
