http://staffordshiresocialservices.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/protest-against-police-corruption-and-unaccountability-12th-june-2012-london-policecorrupt

[DEREK CANNING LLB[HONS] 20]

Policing

Up todate open letter to the police and IPCC, 11 June 2012.

 

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http://staffordshire...protest-police/

Open letter to all the police in the UK

The only way forward is accountability and transparency.

On a local level I know the police want to act in the public interest and to investigate the crimes of the RSPB but higher up the police are too concerned about not being seen to have made a mistake or being embarrassed and this has led to injustice and perverting the course of justice in a number of cases. I have had police officers apologising to me as they know I am right but they are being told not to speak to me from higher up. It is called a police cover and it is not in the public interest. If someone makes a complaint and supplies evidence to back the complaint up then investigate the complaint or tell the complainant where he/she is wrong or mistaken, do not just ignore the complainant just because you do not have a good explanation why you will not investigate the complaint given matter of fact evidence that has been supplied.

What is needed is transparency and accountable to the tax payer and the Independent Police Complaints Commission needs to be replaced with an organisation that is not a complete waste of tax payers money as it will not do anything to help the public that I have seen and I have dealt with them for 15 years. This may be why a hundred solicitors walked out on the IPCC. I have asked for the percentage of people that are happy with their service and they will not tell me however I have been unofficial told it is less than 10%. What other organisation that is funded by us would be allowed to have 90% dissatisfaction rate? The IPCC have even blocked my email address as they cannot answer my questions without looking bad.

We have the best police force in the world however there are still serious problem with the police that need to be addressed in the public interest otherwise we will continue have wrongful convictions and the real guilty parties like the RSPB getting away with breaking the law. If we do not investigate the crimes of the past by the RSPB then we are doomed to repeat them. The public need access to justice via the Police and if not the IPCC. We should not have go lengthy campaigns through the media to secure justice.

This is not a complaint against the good police officers that I have met that wanted to help me secure justice. You know who you are and your employers will not be told so you will not be victimised. We need to support the police in our interests but the police also need to support us and listen to us and most of all the police need to be accountable and explain why something is done or not done in detail. I want to be proud of our police force but the police need to give me a reason to be proud and where this fails we need an IPCC that works and not just an extension of the police to support the police no matter what they do.

I want justice for all and that includes the police and this will only happen with complete accountability to the public and I do not just mean cases in the papers like the Phone hacking case and the Stephen Lawrence case. In the aforesaid cases the police said nothing was wrong but when the media embarrassed them they then changed their mind. I hope however one extreme to another does not result in another injustice as we also need consistency of police investigations and not trophy trials. I know it is a hard balancing act and no one has the complete panacea and no one situation writes the book on policing but a good way forward is accountability and transparency and common sense.

I would ask the police to talk openly to the public and not cover things up as has occurred in the past while the IPCC stand back at an exquisite remove doing nothing to serve the public. I would ask the Police and the IPCC to talk to me and the people that I represent. Go through the evidence that I have supplied on my behalf and others and tell me where we the public are wrong and if you cannot show us where we are wrong then investigate our complaints in the public interest. Notwithstanding what I have said the fact I can say what I have just said without the police beating me up to silence me gives me heart that we live in a free country to an extent but if the police were accountable and transparent then society would be a better and more a fairer place to live for us all including the police as they would regain the public’s respect.

Derek Canning LLB [hons]

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http://staffordshiresocialservices.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/protest-against-police-corruption-and-unaccountability-12th-june-2012-london-policecorruption-ipcc-protest-police/

[jasper65 6]

Not had many complaints against the police later in life except when I was a naughty lad having said that I can understand people who have a genuine grievence and not being heard .

 

the youtube clip in the link is worth a watch.........

[DEREK CANNING LLB[HONS] 20]

It is well worth watching.

[j j m 6,483]

^{in my neck of the woods the police complaints system is a waste of time}

[DEREK CANNING LLB[HONS] 20]

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/problems_with_the_ipcc#outgoing-205875