The College of Policing‘s Code of Ethics has often been described via my Twitter feed (@Neil_Wilby) as an Emperor’s New Clothes fairy tale, straight from the Hans Christian Andersen portfolio. It is a joke, a confidence trick, a scam or any other similar name you would like to call it. The only function for the ethics code, thatContinue reading “The Code of Ethics Confidence Trick”
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Key witness in police funded civil action is a proven liar
In a sensational and very recent development it can now be proved that the central witness in North Yorkshire Police‘s High Court pursuit of two journalists over harassment claims is a liar. And not just a little white lie, either. There is at least one whopper that could land Jane Kenyon-Miller in a criminal court. DocumentsContinue reading “Key witness in police funded civil action is a proven liar”
The North Yorkshire Police dilemma: Find a murderer or pursue journalists over alleged harassment.
Claudia Lawrence, a chef at York University, was 35 years old when she went missing in 2009. She was spotted on her way to a 6am shift at work but never arrived and hasn’t been seen since. Her disappearance was treated as murder, six weeks after her disappearance, and it is the view of some that NorthContinue reading “The North Yorkshire Police dilemma: Find a murderer or pursue journalists over alleged harassment.”
‘Complete capitulation’ follows the fall of Rome
The decision of the North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Julia Mulligan, to use a blank cheque drawn on policing funds to finance a civil harassment claim is one that has already attracted a good deal of controversy. With more certain to follow as the case unravels. Efforts at unpicking both the history and theContinue reading “‘Complete capitulation’ follows the fall of Rome”
Cost of silencing police force critics now approaches £1 million
Tuesday 9th February marked the first anniversary of the initial hearing of a civil harassment claim that is known, curiously, as Hofschröer and others –v- Hofschröer and others. On the face of it, a family dispute gone wrong concerning title to a property formerly owned by a deceased father and an ailing mother. But behindContinue reading “Cost of silencing police force critics now approaches £1 million”
Former Police Authority Chair in fresh Alderman storm
To many in the picturesque coastal towns of Scarborough and Whitby, and an even larger number across the broader acres of North Yorkshire, the very thought that Jane Margaret Kenyon could be worthy of a special civic honour would be anathema. Miss Kenyon endured a chequered history during her political career as a councillor in Scarborough; whilst inContinue reading “Former Police Authority Chair in fresh Alderman storm”
Proportionality, policing and the public interest
‘Proportionality’ and ‘in the public interest’ are two of the buzz words and phrases often deployed amongst policing professionals and commentators these days, and this is a tale that brings both into play in a quite noteworthy, and in many ways, disturbing manner. Apart from fixed penalty offences for such as shoplifting; drunk and disorderly;Continue reading “Proportionality, policing and the public interest”
Police and Crime Commissioners, Scrutiny Panels and some ‘holding to account’ myths
In November 2012, voters in forty-one police areas in England and Wales went to the ballot box and elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) for the first time. They would replace the moribund police authorities, which had existed since the abolition of watch committees in 1964. The three principal functions of a PCC were, byContinue reading “Police and Crime Commissioners, Scrutiny Panels and some ‘holding to account’ myths”
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