Something Serious Going On In The Police Federation

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35838564

Surrey Police are investigating an alleged transfer of about £1m to a charitable account in August last year. 4 arrests so far.

[Mamyalynne]

A case of watch this space then at the moment.

[mikey4444]

A case of quis custodiet ipsos custodes perhaps Mamy ?

[Mamyalynne]

Well that too of course.

[hc4361]

Money is one thing, but an experienced detective working in the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command has been arrested and charged with child sex abuse offences.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-police-officer-from-sex-abuse-unit-charged-with-child-sex-offences-a3206276.html

On balance I think that there has always been 'wrong uns' in the police forces but now they are more likely to be prosecuted.

[mikey4444]

hc....but if we can't trust the Police ..........?

[hc4361]

I think we can trust them to prosecute their own, mikey.

[mikey4444]

Yeah....the Police investigating the Police has always been a good idea hasn't it !

[hc4361]

With the comparatively high number of officers being sacked, otherwise disciplined and/or prosecuted it seems to be working

[-Talbot-]

mikey4444
Question Author
hc....but if we can't trust the Police ..........?



What we can't trust all of them?

[mikey4444]

Talbot...who knows which ones we can trust ? I expect everybody trusted these 4 people who have been arrested a couple of days ago.

I accept that the Police are the only people who can investigate, but in cases like this, perhaps another force, other than the one a few yards down the road should be investigating.

[RATTER15]

I think we can trust the Police! just because a few fell by the wayside that does not mean they are all crooked.

[hc4361]

The Anti Corruption Teams investigate corrupt officers and the Internal Police Complaints Commission deals with complaints from the public and other bodies.

[retrocop]

Mikey4444
If we can't trust a Labour Prime Minister who took us to war on a web of lies and responsible for thousandsnof deaths who can we trust? Shame on the police for not swearing out an arrest warrant!!!

[Mamyalynne]

What's the alternative Mikey, a new body set up just for this purpose and of course a new body set up in case that body has any corrupt members?


It would be never ending.

[mikey4444]

Retro...completely off-topic !

I am not saying that all Police are corrupt, or that even most of them are.
Hopefully corruption is a rare event...after all, this isn't the 1960's.

But every case like this lessens the public's trust in an organisation that should commend our trust automatically. And I am still not happy with a force investigating Policemen that are so geographically close to them

[Peter Pedant]

There are wrong 'uns in every walk of life. Remember Harold Shipman.

I think Shipman was dobbed in by a colleague - in case it all went wrong she was dying from cancer and commented - by the time they discover who has done it I will be dead ..... I dont recollect that happening with the police and the Birmingham bombers or the Guildford lot .....

o I forgot - those lot had really 'done it' hadnt they ?

[retrocop]

The Federation were once based in Surbiton .It is a total irrelevance where the Police Federation are based and remember it was they who raised the alarm!!!

[mikey4444]

PP....everybody was to blame for Shipman.