The Met Have Form

April 17, 2009 at 10:45 pm

As it’s now illegal to take a photograph of a policeman then TheEye has used one of a group of Metropolitan riot police officers dressed as intimidating paramilitary anonymous and faceless thugs who are hitting somebody.

Oh.

This report from the Countryside Alliance makes for very interesting reading. Whatever you may think of foxhunting, just consider the disparity between the actions of the Met and the Sussex Police.

Here “The Countryside Alliance compares the Metropolitan Police’s handling of the G20 demonstration to that of our demonstration in Parliament Square on 15th September 2004. We were all shocked by the number and seriousness of injuries inflicted on demonstrators that day, and looking back, it is amazing that there were not more serious consequences.

We are the first to echo the view that policing these events is fraught with difficulty, yet exactly one week after this incident 20,000 of us demonstrated in Brighton at the Labour Party conference. Tensions were high and the opportunity for ‘flash points’ even more numerous than before, but this time with real anger added to the mix. Sussex Police handled the event to perfection. It was controlled and peaceful; there were no arrests and no injuries, which suggests a clear distinction between the attitude of rural and urban police officers.
What is most worrying is that despite a detailed investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission’s (IPCC) nothing much seems to have changed within the Metropolitan police.

20,000 demonstrators attended the Parliament Square demonstration, along with 1300 police officers. In the clashes that followed, 40 of our members received serious head injuries as a result of being hit on the head by police officers, against all instructions. There were 425 complaints to the IPCC and 31 officers received Regulation 9 notices. 17 officers had files passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for crimes varying from Common Assault to Actual Bodily Harm.

Just prior to the IPCC inquiry a Metropolitan Police press release claimed that 60 officers had been injured, and yet none of the local hospitals had any record of admissions or treating any officers, let alone 60 of them. The inquiry involved up to 17 people from the IPCC and took 14 months to report. Of the cases that went to the CPS, there were no convictions, and no disciplinary action was taken against any officer, including those who removed their ID, despite, as the report stated there being “clear examples of some officers ignoring this instruction.”

Compare and contrast with what used to be called a Police “Force” and who were allowed to say “What’s goin’ on ‘ere then, sunshine”, give you a cuff around the ear and tell you to be on your way. They used to be known by everyone in the local community and actually solved real crimes committed by genuine wrongdoers against your elderly next-door neighbour.

Now they seem to randomly hit you over the head and cause you to die of internal bleeding (and then lie about it) for the crime of walking along a road with your hands in your pockets. This country is sinking fast, and desperately needs to be rid of this morally bankrupt administration.