cops on cameras - again

[John Wilson]

2009/7/22 David Hansen <davidh at spidacom.co.uk>:
> On 22 Jul 2009 at 14:56, John Wilson wrote:
>
>> It
>> seems to me to be under trained and flustered police officers making it up
>> as they go along.
>
> That may be the case. If it is then, if claims of "higher ups" that
> they are not in favour of the officer's actions are not lies,
> management must correct the under trained and flustered officers,
> gently at first and more harshly if they refuse to learn.
>
> Instead we get Orwellian statements from the "higher up" officers about
> what a wondwerful job officers are doing in difficult circumstances and
> how only a "terrorist" or some other person trying to bring about the
> downfall of the UK would object to anything any police officer wants to
> do.
>
> Remember Kent Police are the organisation which carried out numerous
> criminal activities at Kingsnorth nearly a year ago, for which they
> have not been held to account.

I think you're preaching to the choir here :)

I'm unclear what the voluntary reference to the IPCC means. Is this a
tacit admission by the Kent Police that they behaved improperly or are
they kinking it into the long grass and hope that the fuss dies down?

John Wilson