Police caught lying in FoI request

Your Right To Know is a website that campaigns for stronger freedom of information laws and has just discovered that the police lied to them when they made a request. You can read what happened here.

Basically Heather (owner of the site) asked about the pilotless drones that were used to record what happened at the V Festival. The police said that the Surveillance Commissioner was spoken to so that they could see if it was legal however Heather used freedom of information to ask the commissioner what happened and his office said he was never contacted. The police were then told that their lie had been found out and then the next day (it was about 2 hours in office hours) they came clean and called it a misunderstanding. You can read the rest here.

Police committing crime

You know crime is out of control when even police are encouraged to get in on the action. In Worcester, if you don’t lock up your bike up the police have been told that they can take it without telling you. This is effectively stealing and who are you going to phone if someone has stolen your bike? If the police can break the law why can’t we?

It’s also legal for the police to hit you with their car and then fine you for denting the police car. How nice of them. Maybe it’s now ok for you to punch them in the face and get them arrested for assault when your knuckles come back slightly bruised.

I don’t know how the police have the cheek to do this sort of thing to law abiding people but things need to change and the police have got to stop thinking they are our superiors.

1 in 15 senior police under investigation

Almost one in 15 senior police officers in England and Wales is being investigated over criminal or disciplinary offences, The Observer can reveal. The Police Superintendents' Association (PSA) said that 100 of its members are under investigation for claims ranging from high-level corruption to harassment.

In some inquiries as many as five superintendents are being investigated by other police officers over criminal or disciplinary matters. By comparison, less than 1 per cent of the population is under investigation at any one time by the police.

And we wonder why crime is going up. It seems that if you are a senior police officer you are more likely to be in trouble with the law. I wonder how many of these senior police are Muslims seeing as how Muslim police are ten times more corrupt than white officers.