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#7 Re: the future of policing: trust and accountability Posted by weneedchange000 (194.83.xx.xx) on Fri 23 Apr 2010 at 10:48 I'm also in the process of trying to hold the police accountable for allowing an officer to attempt to unlawfully caution me, then use intimidation when I tried to report him to his sergeant and then felt it was ok to treat me as a criminal rather than investigate malicious lies that were being made against me; he of course was then doing a personal favour for a friend and so had no intention of sticking to the law or checking that I was telling the truth with the evidence I continually offered. He tried to hide what he was doing and said I should just sign a piece of paper that he would send in the post as I was at home at the time and he was at the station, but I'm assuming that as he was off duty at the time of the phone call. I had to insist that he read out what the paper was as he wasn't forthcoming with any information as to what the paper was. I have since dealt with four Inspectors; three of which didn't want to know about my complaint. The first inspector wanted me to go to court first if I didn't pay a penalty fine for a crime I didn't commit; he refused to take down my complaint until I was taken to court, this of course did not happen. The last who happened to be the laziest didn't even check to see where I lived and was looking to arrange a meeting with me; little did he realise because of his great incompetence I lived almost 300 miles away from the station as he thought, but didn't check in the file that I was not living in the same area where he was based! On hearing back from him on the second occasion on Christmas Eve of all days, he said he had found no wrong doing on the part of the officer, he had not noticed that my complaint was about two officers one being the first Inspector I spoke to and also that he did an investigation without my evidence! He did admit that I had been the victim & I was advised to complain again. Both officers lied, twisted words, changed stories, made up stories and they were made to look as if they had done a good job. My complaint was then not upheld as there was no independent evidence (but yet there was, just not asked for) and they are thinking that my 'perception' is somehow at fault and not the officers! I'm currently waiting for my appeal to be heard but that will take up to 10-12 weeks even before they will look at it, as they are overwhelmed with complaints. I did finally send in my evidence with my appeal which was never asked for, but I had put in writing on two different occasions that I would supply my evidence to support my allegations. The PSD then started to make mistakes or chose to make mistakes and put in for dispensation to have my complaint written off even before any Inspector had investigated fully. I am finding it most disturbing that no solicitors seem interested in taking on my case. Maybe if I was well known like Mark Thomas the political activist or an MP things would be different today. Did I really need to be cautioned unlawfully for a solicitor to be willing to take on my case? This shouldn't be how it is! Are police officers allowed to commit crimes and then these crimes are then to be overlooked?

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