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Dear Independent Police Complaints Commission,

Please supply all the information that you hold on the case of the
officer highlighted in the ITN Article below especially why it took
over 10 years to prosecute the officer even though there was many
complaints over the years? Please also supply the information why
you are at this stage allowing a similar situation to go on in
relation to the complaints against the police and the RSPB in
relation to the following people’s complaints as well as others:
1] Mark Robb
BLUE FALCON - MARK ROBB

2] Terry Burden,
Kentish Falcon
http://www.kentishfalconry.co.uk/ ry & Conservation Centre

3] David Myatt

4] Ken Smith.

5] DEREK CANNING

6] Cameron Hannah

7] Chris Marshall

8] Tony Weddell

9] John Dodsworth

10] Peter Gurr.

11] Derek Armstrong,

13] and so on.

What information does the IPCC hold that reconcile with the
statements from the CPS, the IPCC, the police and the trial judge
in the Commander Ali Dizaei case that police officers are not above
the law, criminal and bullies in uniform should be confronted and
prosecuted, given the continual refusal of the police and the IPCC
to investigate the corruption of various persons that you have been
made very familiar with over a number of years?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100208/vide...
Four years for corrupt Met Police commander
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Commander Ali Dizaei, 47, was convicted of misconduct and
perverting the course of justice at London's Southwark Crown Court.
A jury found he attacked Iraqi Waad al-Baghdadi before arresting
and attempting to frame him.
The corruption convictions will almost certainly spell the end of
the Iranian officer's controversial 24-year career. He has been
suspended on full pay since September 2008 and is now likely to be
sacked from the Metropolitan Police for gross misconduct.
He emerged unscathed from a series of earlier inquiries, including
a multimillion-pound undercover operation examining claims of
corruption, fraud and dishonesty.
But the attempt to frame the young businessman who pestered him for
payment over a website exposed him as a bully and a liar who abused
his position. Giving evidence, Mr al-Baghdadi compared him to
bloodthirsty movie gangster Tony Montana, played by Al Pacino in
the film Scarface.
He said many people were scared of the Metropolitan Police officer
because of his status in the Iranian community. The jury also heard
that Dizaei rarely paid for his meals and left his unmarked car on
a double yellow line while at the restaurant.

Yours faithfully,

Derek Canning LLB [hons]

Dear Independent Police Complaints Commission,

Film of corrupt police `suppressed'

Jason Bennetto Crime Correspondent

Saturday, 21 August 1999
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VIDEO EVIDENCE of corrupt police officers caught on street
surveillance cameras is being suppressed, according to a study.

Patrol officers ordered camera operators not to film controversial
incidents and in one case where an officer was filmed assaulting a
man the footage was kept secret.

Researchers monitoring 600 hours of video surveillance in two
cities and a town found examples of collusion between the police
and civilian closed-circuit television operators to hide
embarrassing or illegal incidents. They also found evidence that
operators filmed ethnic minority people, the young and men
disproportionately. Black people were about twice as likely to be
filmed as whites.

The Government has allocated pounds 170m for new CCTV systems in
the next three years - enough for 40,000 cameras.

The forthcoming book, The Maximum Surveillance Society, by Dr Clive
Norris, lecturer in Criminology at Hull University, and Dr Gary
Armstrong, lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Reading
University, found examples of wrongdoing and suppression of video
evidence. In one case a site manager said his team filmed an
incident where a police officer was caught on camera "punching a
young man in the back of a police van". But the tape was never
handed to the youth or his solicitor. It was eventually given to
the police, but the system manager, a former police officer, said
it was "not for disciplinary purposes....but for training".

A CCTV operator said an off- duty police officer was filmed coming
out of a nightclub and getting into a fight with three black men
after he told them obscenely they were drug dealers who should go
back "to where they came from". The officer was filmed brawling.
The operator said two black youths were arrested, but the tape was
never released and the officer was not disciplined. In a third
incident a CCTV operator who filmed a police officer strike a man
with a baton 19 times was told by the police controller to "pull
out" the camera to a wider angle so details could not be seen in
close up.

The CCTV operators were a mixture of local authority employees and
private security personnel, but in all cases the police could
monitor the cameras and the largest team was based in a police
station. The authors argue: "Our evidence suggests...processes at
work enabling patrol officers to escape the disciplinary gaze. This
was achieved either through control of the cameras or informal
accommodations with the camera operators, so that video footage of
questionable policing tactics is not recorded."

The authors also argue: "The young, the male and the black were
systematically and disproportionately targeted, not because of
their involvement in crime or disorder, but for `no obvious reason'
and on the basis of categorical suspicion alone." They noted that
"racist language was not unusual to hear among CCTV operators".

The study also found operators recorded people having sexual
intercourse in part of a car park nicknamed "Shaggers Alley" and
placed it on a "greatest hits" tape replayed for the civilian and
police CCTV watchers.

Researchers observed the cameras operators monitoring 148 cameras
between May 1995 and April 1996.

Molly Meacher, deputy chairperson of the Police Complaints
Authority, said: "Any such CCTV operator who deliberately turns a
video camera away from police misconduct, or who tampers with the
recordings, deserves to be sacked."

The Maximum Surveillance Society: The Rise of CCTV by Berg
Publishers, price pounds 14.99.

Yours faithfully,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Independent Police Complaints Commission,

Police corruption is a specific form of police misconduct designed
to obtain financial benefits and/or career advancement for a police
officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively
pursuing, an investigation or arrest.

One common form of police corruption is soliciting and/or accepting
[bribes] in exchange for not reporting organized drug or
prostitution rings or other illegal activities. Another example is
police officers flouting the police code of conduct in order to
secure convictions of suspects — for example, through the use of
falsified evidence. More rarely, police officers may deliberately
and systematically participate in organized crime themselves.

In most major cities there are internal affairs sections to
investigate suspected police corruption or misconduct. Similar
entities include the British Independent Police Complaints
Commission.

Contents [hide]
1 Corrupt acts by police officers
2 Prevalence of police corruption
3 In the United States
4 Further reading
5 See also
5.1 People
5.2 Topics
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Corrupt acts by police officers
Police officers have various opportunities to gain personally from
their status and authority as law enforcement officers. The Knapp
Commission, which investigated corruption in the New York City
Police Department in the early 1970s, divided corrupt officers into
two types: meat-eaters, who "aggressively misuse their police
powers for personal gain," and grass-eaters, who "simply accept the
payoffs that the happenstances of police work throw their way."[1]

The sort of corrupt acts that have been committed by police
officers have been classified as follows:

Corruption of authority: police officers receiving free drinks,
meals, and other gratuities.
Kickbacks: receiving payment from referring people to other
businesses.
Opportunistic theft from arrestees and crime victims or their
corpses.
Shakedowns: accepting bribes for not pursuing a criminal violation.
Protection of illegal activity: being "on the take", accepting
payment from the operators of illegal establishments such as
brothels, casinos, or drug dealers to protect them from law
enforcement and keep them in operation.
"Fixing": undermining criminal prosecutions by losing traffic
tickets or failing to appear at judicial hearings, for bribery or
as a personal favor.
Direct criminal activities of law enforcement officers
themselves.[2]
Internal payoffs: prerogatives and perquisites of law enforcement
organizations, such as shifts and holidays, being bought and sold.
The "frameup": the planting or adding to evidence, especially in
drug cases.[3]
[edit] Prevalence of police corruption
Accurate information about the prevalence of police corruption is
hard to come by, since the corrupt activities tend to happen in
secret and police organizations have little incentive to publish
information about corruption.[4] Police officials and researchers
alike have argued that in some countries, large-scale corruption
involving the police not only exists but can even become
institutionalized.[5] One study of corruption in the Los Angeles
Police Department (focusing particularly on the Rampart scandal)
proposed that certain forms of police corruption may be the norm,
rather than the exception, in American policing.[6]

Where corruption exists, the widespread existence of a code of
silence among the police can prevent the corruption from coming to
light. Officers in these situations commonly fail to report corrupt
behavior or provide false testimony to outside investigators to
cover up criminal activity by their fellow officers.[7] The
well-known case of Frank Serpico, a police officer who spoke out
about pervasive corruption in the New York City Police Department
despite the open hostility of other members of the NYPD,
illustrates how powerful the code of silence can be.

[edit] In the United States
There are numerous reports of police corruption in the U.S.,
sometimes linked with police brutality.[citation needed] Although
extreme cases involve several policemen accepting bribes to avoid
arrests or curtail investigations, there are many more subtle forms
of corruption. Some forms include:

planting evidence inside the back seat of a patrol car so that a
suspect, once placed in the car for questioning, can be linked to
that evidence (even if searched by an unsuspecting 2nd
officer);[original research?]
[edit] Further reading
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Fallen blue knights: controlling police
corruption (Oxford U.P, 2005; ISBN 0195169166)
Lawrence W. Sherman, Scandal and Reform: Controlling Police
Corruption (Univ. Calif. Press, 1974)
Stanley Einstein, Menachem Amir, Police corruption: paradigms,
models, and concepts : challenges for developing countries (Office
of International Criminal Justice, 2003; ISBN 0942511840)
Tim Newburn, "Understanding and preventing police corruption:
lessons from the literature", Police Research Series, Paper 110,
1999.
[edit] See also

Yours faithfully,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Independent Police Complaints Commission,

Please supply all the information that you hold on the following
article especially in relation to the IPCC protecting the police no
matter what they do.

http://www.ligali.org/article.php?id=1824
IPCC: Protecting corrupt police, betraying public confidence
Submitted By: Keji Dalemo
Date: Thu 15 May 2008

The ability of the government to establish a body fully able to
investigate complaints against the police has been called into
question following the resignation of more than 100 lawyers from
the police watchdog advisory board
The Police Action Lawyers Group (PALG), a nationwide coalition of
lawyers representing members of the public who have lodged
complaints against the police, resigned from the Independent Police
Complaints Commission (IPCC) expressing “increasing dismay and
disillusionment” at “the consistently poor quality of decision
making at all levels of the IPCC”.

The joint resignation letter from two of the PALG’s leaders to IPCC
chairman Nick Hardwick was sent on behalf of the entire group of
lawyers and signalled the last straw for the lawyers who said the
IPCC’s handling of their earlier attempts to highlight their
concerns had been “pitifully poor”.

The PALG had been on the IPCC advisory board since its inception in
April 2004 yet within a year members found themselves confronted by
a multitude of cases complaining about police misconduct that the
IPCC had failed to handle properly. These cases included racism,
corruption, violence, fabrication of evidence and even deaths in
custody.

In October 2005 the PALG presented Nick Hardwick with a dossier
containing 12 examples of cases highlighting some of the most
serious failings which had yet to be addressed despite continually
been brought to the attention of the IPCC.

An investigation carried out by the Guardian earlier this year
showed poor administration to be rife within IPCC with casework
managers with no legal qualifications and little relevant
experience making crucial decisions; complainants being treated
rudely and indifferently; and extreme delays- some going back
years.

The same investigation seemed to support the widely held belief
that the police are given immunity exposing the IPCC as biased in
favour of police even rejecting cases where the evidence supporting
the complainant was compelling.

A case in point is that of Toni Comer. In January 2008, the IPCC
rejected a complaint alleging assault made by Comer who was
famously captured on CCTV being battered by a male police officer
outside a nightclub in Sheffield in July 2006.

The police were called after Comer was alleged to have caused
criminal damage to a car outside the Niche night club which she was
evicted from. The CCTV footage, which surfaced a year after the
incident and subsequently made the news nationwide, showed PC
Mulhall of South Yorkshire Police punching the then 18 year old
Comer fives times while she lay on the ground after the two had
taken a tumble down some steps while, drunk, she was said to have
resisted arrest. The tape then showed Comer being taken to the
police van with her trousers around her ankles.

PC Mulhall said in statement “…I struck her as hard as I was able
with my right fist in an attempt to subdue her. There was no
apparent effect so I did this twice more. When she continued to
resist handcuffs, I now struck her as hard as I was physically able
in an attempt to deaden her arm. In the end, I had to use brute
force.”

It later transpired that Comer was an epileptic and the movements
regarded as “resisting arrest” may have been caused by a fit.

The IPCC report on the incident concluded that “police officers are
entitled by the law to use justified and proportionate force” on
someone who is resisting arrest.

Comer’s lawyer responded “…Ms Comer has never had any confidence in
the police complaints system and her scepticism has proved to be
well-founded given today's decision."

A still from the shocking CCTV footage showing Toni Comer assaulted
by a gang of British police officers

IPCC defending failure
In one of the most harrowing examples of police brutality and state
enabled unaccountability, the IPCC last August ruled that no police
officers should face disciplinary proceedings for the death of
Roger Sylvester in 1999.

Sylvester fell into a coma and died a week after being restrained
and arrested by 8 police officers after they attended a call
reporting Sylvester naked and behaving strangely outside his home
in Tottenham, North London.

The investigation into the killing of Sylvester began in October
1999 and was passed onto the CPS who in November 2000 decided that
the officers involved should not be prosecuted. An inquest jury in
October 2003 however returned a unanimous unlawfully killed
verdict. The verdict was later quashed in 2004 after the case was
passed onto the IPCC to investigate and the Metropolitan police
requested a judicial review.

Using the report completed by the IPCC, the CPS in 2005 again
concluded that there was “insufficient evidence” to prosecute the
officers involved.

Nicola Williams, one of the three IPCC commissioners investigating
the case, told attendees at a public meeting held in November last
year that “the circumstances of his [Sylvester’s] death and the
process that followed were unacceptable. I am sure that the length
of time taken to reach this decision can only have compounded his
family’s grief. I am very sorry about that”. Williams continued
that “given the passage of time” the IPCC were unable to recommend
appropriate disciplinary action.

While the IPCC were still defending their failure to bring to book
the Met police for the death of Sylvester, the IPCC were put in
charge of investigating the death of yet another African, Frank
Ogboru, who died, 26 September 2007, while being restrained by
police who were called because of an argument involving Ogboru at
the flat he was staying in while visiting London from Nigeria.

Despite several eyewitness accounts stating that Ogboru was
restrained by more than 4 officers and was audibly distressed
repeatedly pleading “I can’t breathe” and CCTV footage showing the
incident, on 30 April 2008 the CPS released a press statement
concluding that the police could not be held accountable for the
death of Mr Ogboru as the level of restraint used was ‘reasonable’
and that a jury was hence likely to find it lawful.

The CPS report continued that there was ‘insufficient evidence’ to
prosecute the police’s restraint tactics as having breached a ‘duty
of care’ to Ogboru. In a last ditch attempt to present an illusion
of a thorough, impartial investigation, the CPS stated that they
considered ‘other possible offences’ such as a breach in the Health
and Safety at Work Act 1974, the same and only grounds that the
Metropolitan Police were found guilty of for killing innocent
Brazilian Jean Charles De Menezes, but concluded, again, that there
was ‘insufficient evidence’.

The IPCC’s investigation into the death of Frank Ogboru attracted
public criticism from the beginning when the IPCC formally
announced that Ogboru had died in hospital when he had in fact died
at the scene while being restrained by the police.

The IPCC press release announcing the CPS decision continues to
imply that Ogboru died at the hospital instead of at the scene of
police restraint.

A still from the shocking CCTV footage showing Frank Ogboru
assaulted by a gang of British police officers

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Yours faithfully,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Independent Police Complaints Commission,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/...
Crisis at police watchdog as lawyers resign
More than 100 quit over claims of delay and poor decisions by IPCC
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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) faces a crisis
of confidence after a network of more than a hundred lawyers who
specialise in handling police complaints resigned from its advisory
body.
In a letter to Nick Hardwick, the IPCC's chairman, the lawyers'
leaders expressed "increasing dismay and disillusionment" at what
they described as "the consistently poor quality of decision-making
at all levels of the IPCC". They said the IPCC's response to their
earlier attempts to deal with problems had been "pitifully poor".
The resignation is a blow to the commission's morale and reputation
especially as it was welcomed by criminal lawyers when it was set
up in April 2004. After 40 years of slow progress, the organisation
was seen as providing a robust and independent system for dealing
with complaints against police officers.
But an investigation by the Guardian has found evidence of a
cluster of administrative problems. These include:
• A failure to provide effective oversight for the work of the
police investigators who still handle most complaints;
• a pattern of favouritism towards the police with some complaints
being rejected in spite of apparently powerful evidence in their
support;
• cases of indifference and rudeness towards complainants;
• extreme delays, with some complaints remaining unresolved after
years of inaction and confusion;
• key decisions being taken by casework managers who have no legal
qualifications, little relevant experience and minimal training;
• investigators and senior commissioners failing to work
effectively with the result that some decisions have had to be
overturned with the threat of court action.
Problems with investigators include one case in which an
investigator was caught sending "raunchy emails" to a teenage girl
whose family had been the victim of a crime he was looking into. In
another case a family whose son had died in custody were taken
aback when a female investigator walked out early from a meeting to
get a facial.
In one sample case among dozens reviewed by the Guardian, Christine
Hurst, whose son was stabbed to death in spring 2000, has been
waiting for nearly eight years for a resolution of her complaint
that police failed to protect him even though they knew his killer
had made repeated threats. Police were warned on the night of his
death that the killer was waiting outside his house with a knife.
Hurst said: "Despite fighting all these years, I haven't really got
anywhere. The sheer fact that they can do this - and if they are
doing it to me, they are doing it to other people as well. It is
appalling."
The Police Action Lawyers Group, (PALG) which represents specialist
lawyers on the IPCC's advisory board, has tried repeatedly to warn
the commission about its problems. In October 2005, for example,
they presented Hardwick with a dossier warning that, with few
exceptions, "mediocrity appears to flourish unchecked, unmarked
and, in many instances, unacknowledged".
In a subsequent email to Hardwick 18 months later, one lawyer said
"attitudes appear to have deteriorated, reflected in recent
examples which serve only to bring discredit and shame upon the
IPCC".
The October 2005 dossier summarised 12 sample IPCC decisions and
reported: "Sadly, in many of the cases we have dealt with over the
18 months since April 2004, we have been very disappointed by the
poor quality of such decisions and, worse, the apparent lack of
impartiality reflected in the reasoning given for such decisions.
"One common feature that seems to emerge is that primary
decision-making functions are apparently being devolved to
inexperienced and poorly trained junior staff lacking the
qualifications and experience necessary for this important work and
without the benefit of adequate or effective quality assurance
procedures. More generally, the performance of those responsible
for supervising, managing or conducting investigations has given
cause for serious concern ..."
The joint resignation letter, signed on behalf of all of the
lawyers last month by two PALG members, acknowledged "islands of
good practice" but says their attempts to raise their concerns
through the IPCC's advisory board were repeatedly frustrated:
"Follow-up on agreed action points has been pitifully poor ... At
times, the situation has been almost farcical: key decisions on our
agenda items have not been minuted and, when eventually minuted,
have not been actioned, even after we have chased progress."
Hardwick says this is unfair and that PALG failed to respond to his
attempts to review the working of the advisory board. Speaking to
the Guardian, he rejected PALG's grounds for resigning from the
advisory board. He said IPCC evidence had held up in front of
juries and coroners, and only a handful of decisions had been
reversed after lawyers threatened to have them judicially reviewed.
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Yours faithfully,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Independent Police Complaints Commission,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

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More than 100 lawyers have resigned from the police watchdog in
protest against what they claim is a culture of incompetence.
The group, who specialise in handling police complaints, warned in
a joint resignation letter that there was "inconsistently poor
quality of decision-making at all levels" of the Independent Police
Complaints Commission (IPCC).
They told Nick Hardwick, the IPCC's chairman, that the earlier
response to their earlier attempts to deal with problems in the
organisation had been "pitifully poor".
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Under fire: IPCC's Nick Hardwick faces fresh pressure after 100
lawyers quit the watchdog
The mass resignation will come as a bitter blow to the IPCC,
particularly as it was welcomed by lawyers in 2004 when it was
formed.
Police Action Lawyers Group (PALG) claim that the IPCC has failed
to respond to a series of complaints it made in 2005.
The lawyers' dossier warned that with a few exceptions "mediocrity
appears to flourish unchecked, unmarked and, in many instances,
unacknowledged."
It criticised the IPCC for extreme delay, incompetence, favouritism
towards the police, and said that key decisions were being taken by
case work managers with little relevant experience.
A spokesman for IPCC said last night most of these allegations
dated back to the time of is predecessor Police Complaints
Authority, and had successfully improved the system since then.
The spokesman said: "There was clearly issues with the Police
Complaints Authority, which is why the IPCC was created. We
inherited its backlog of cases.
"We think we've been very successful in improving the system."
However some of the allegations have been squared directly at the
IPCC.
Christine Hirst, whose son was stabbed to death in spring, 2000,
says she has been waiting for nearly eight years for a resolution
of her complaint that police failed to protect him even though the
killer had made repeated threats.
The PALG's 2005 dossier summaries 12 samples of IPCC decisions and
reported: "Sadly, in many cases we have dealt with over the 18
months since April 2004, we have been very disappointed by the poor
quality of such decisions and, worse, the apparent lack of
impartiality reflected in the reasoning given for such decisions."
"One common feature that seems to emerge is that primary
decision-making functions are apparently being devolved to
inexperienced and poorly trained junior staff lacking the
qualifications and experience necessary for this important work."
The joint resignation letter was signed last month by two PALG
members on behalf of all the lawyers.
Mr Hardwick said at the time that he tried to respond to the PALG's
concerns but had failed to respond to his attempts to review the
working the of IPCC advisory board.

Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...

Yours faithfully,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Athena Cass,

The British public are becoming more and more frightened at the
lack of activity of the iPCC to the extent that the iPCC LOOK just
like an extension of the police to protect police in relation to
their crimes. The newpaper articles cogently shows that iPCC are
not doing their job correctly and are just covering up for the
police. Given the hundred solicitors that have resigned and even
ex-members of the iPCC condemning the iPCC could you supply the
information that you hold on whom controls and investigates the
shortcomings of the iPCC and where a member of the public can ask
for an investigation into the iPCC.

Yours sincerely,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Note the newspaper article that proves the iPCC needs to be
investigated and reformed in the public interest as the
organisation is not fulfilling it's mandate to the British public.

'The worst of all outcomes'
Heralded as a force for change at its launch, the Independent
Police Complaints Commission is out of touch, ineffective and takes
the side of the police rather than the public, claims former member
John Crawley
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Clashes between police and protestors during the G20 summit in
London highlighted the sort of controversies the IPCC might have to
address. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA
Hopes were high when the Independent Police Complaints Commission
(IPCC) was launched in April 2004 that there would now be a
reformed police complaints system - providing legal rights for
complainants - that was above all independent, so that police were
not investigating themselves. After 20 years working for a housing
and social care agency in inner-city Birmingham, I joined the IPCC,
as one of 18 new commissioners, with the aim of righting
injustices. We claimed to be the most powerful civilian oversight
body in the world, and we prepared to change the world. Five years
on, I decided to leave. So what had gone wrong?
Only around 100 IPCC investigations, plus 150 police investigations
"managed" by the IPCC, are undertaken each year, compared to 29,000
complaints. The majority of those 100 are not even complaints about
day-to-day policing, but concern incidents where Article 2 of the
Human Rights Act - the police's duty to safeguard life - may be
involved, and by law require IPCC investigation. Some, such as the
shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube in 2005 and
possibly the death last week of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests
in London, rightly attract great public concern. But the question,
"Do you have to be dead before the IPCC takes an interest in your
case?", is too near the truth.
Intrusive power
Against this trend, I managed for some years to secure resources to
initiate investigations into complaints about operational policing,
such as stop and search and unlawful detention. My investigations
into West Midlands police's excessive and inappropriate use of
section 60 searches - a highly intrusive power whereby the
constable does not have to have a "reasonable suspicion" to justify
the stop - got demonstrable results: from 2004 to 2007, the use of
this power reduced dramatically. I also gave high priority to
complainants' appeals against local police's own investigations,
including stop and search and unlawful arrest allegation cases in
the Metropolitan police.
Under the system the IPCC replaced, few complaints were
substantiated, a tiny number of officers faced discipline, and
police investigations were strung out over years. Figures from
2007/08 show that nothing much has changed under the IPCC. In that
year, just 11% of complaints were upheld, but your chances of
success varied wildly, depending on where you complained. In West
Yorkshire or Humberside, 96% of all complaints were dismissed, but
in Bedfordshire 20% were upheld. Even more worrying, just 1% of
allegations of serious assault were substantiated. And as a result
of complaints, only 15 officers lost their jobs, one was demoted,
and 24 were fined a few days' pay - a total of 0.028% of the
national workforce.
I have no wish to impugn the large majority of upright officers,
but these statistics disclose a complaints system that fails to
identify or punish the minority who abuse their office, and it
serves the decent majority ill.
There were 2,260 appeals against local police investigations of
complaints in 2007/08 - a significant measure of dissatisfaction
with a system of investigation. Fewer than one in five were upheld
by the IPCC.
The police watchdog has failed to become a complainant-focused,
public-facing and customer-serving organisation. It has hidden
itself away, choosing often remote and inaccessible offices,
avoiding face-to-face contact with the public or complainants. I
handled the West Midlands, which has the second largest police
force in the country, yet the IPCC has no office in the region,
employs virtually no one from there and, since I left, has no
commissioner resident in the region.
You can walk into any police station and make a complaint, but you
cannot walk into an IPCC office and do so. Police officers are
regular visitors to the IPCC, and staff make frequent visits to
police professional standards (complaints handling) departments to
discuss cases. High priority is afforded to staff and commissioners
attending the annual cycle of conferences organised by the variety
of policing organisations, but no comparable priority is given to
identifying and speaking at events and organisations working for
complainants' interests.
The IPCC's focus on the police, rather than the public, is evident
in its decisions. It sees itself as part of the wider "family" of
police agencies, such as the National Police Improvement Agency, HM
Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Association of Chief Police
Officers, all under the paternalistic wing of the Home Office, the
paymaster and ringmaster.
Its 400 staff and budget (£32.2m in 2007-08) are mostly funded by
the Home Office. Full-time commissioners (board members), appointed
by the home secretary for a five-year term of office, are paid
£75,000 a year and are led by a full-time executive chair.
Commissioners must by law have no police background, and are there
to safeguard the IPCC's independence. However, former police and
customs officers fill many investigatory and management roles, and
its two chief executives have both come from the Home Office.
Bureaucratic approach
Commissioners seeking a second term must reapply for their jobs
from scratch, which inevitably compromises the independence of the
role. I concluded reluctantly that I could no longer support an
organisation producing the worst of all outcomes - timidity towards
police accountability and redress for complainants, combined with a
drawn-out bureaucratic approach that can penalise innocent police
officers, who have a cloud hanging over them sometimes for years.
We are left with a veneer of independence, but a complaints body
that is largely absent from the complaints system it oversees.
Despite its much-flaunted values, the IPCC rarely debated
fundamental questions about its strategy and priorities. The
resignation of the Police Action Lawyers Group - solicitors who
specialise in police complaints work - from the IPCC advisory board
in 2007 because it felt it had no influence, and the broader
concern about how the voice of complainants and the public could be
heard within the IPCC, were never debated.
Commissioners have become ornamental, and the pressure was to
delegate more and more to managers, including vital decisions on
whether the IPCC should get involved in a complaint investigation.
Even allegations of serious criminal assault are now routinely left
for investigation by the police, although just 1% of such
complaints are upheld by the police.
What is the taxpayer getting for a commission costing millions of
pounds? Strong lay involvement of people who bring independent
judgment is a critical ingredient, but the commission has presided
supinely over their irrelevance.
So what is to be done? I propose that four key reforms are urgently
required.
First, the chair needs to be a part-time, non-executive appointment
with the task of supporting and empowering an effective commission
that is driving the complaints system and taking the key decisions
on cases and the direction of the organisation. All commissioner
appointments should be for only one term of six or seven years,
removing the potential for reappointment to be a source of pressure
on independence.
Second, the IPCC must boost dramatically the number and range of
its own investigations, while cutting the length of its
investigations.
Third, the Commons public accounts committee recently criticised
the IPCC for having no feedback mechanism from complainants (or
police officers) on the quality of its services. It must become a
public and complainant-facing organisation, adopting an ombudsman
type of service, with the focus on proper redress for the public.
Finally, while commissioners cannot make all of the decisions, they
must take proper responsibility for investigations and appeal
decisions.
The press is littered with public concern about current police
tactics, including the way that demonstrations are handled. These
issues particularly affect younger people, and we risk yet another
disaffected generation. How the IPCC addresses what may be
increasing policing controversies associated with protest movements
will be a critical test of whether it is worth preserving or is a
failed model.
• John Crawley was a commissioner at the IPCC from 2004 to 2008

Dear Athena Cass,

This is UNACCEPTABLE

Yours sincerely,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Athena Cass,

It looks like another cover up to the public tax payer.

We the people need the truth and justice.

Yours sincerely,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Athena Cass,

We must open ourselves to the truth and the truth to ourselves.

Yours sincerely,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Independent Police Complaints Commission,

Still waiting.

Yours faithfully,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Independent Police Complaints Commission,

Police corruption in UK 'at Third World levels'

By Geoffrey Seed and Alasdair Palmer Sunday 27 September 1998

Special Report: The shameful truth about police corruption

POLICE corruption in Britain is now so widespread it may have
reached levels which normally only occur in unstable Third World
countries, according to a confidential document obtained by The
Telegraph.
The growth of the international drugs trade and the massive amounts
of money available to criminals to offer as bribes are identified
as the key cause.
The document, the minutes of a meeting organised by the National
Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), and attended by 10 of
Britain's most senior officers and policy makers, states that
"corrupt officers exist throughout the UK police service". NCIS's
Director of Intelligence said that corruption may have reached
"level 2: the situation which occurs in some Third World
Countries".

Police are so concerned they say that drug testing and lie detector
tests for detectives should be considered as options in the fight
against corruption.
The document, the minutes of a meeting organised by the National
Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), and attended by 10 of
Britain's most senior officers and policy makers, states that
"corrupt officers exist throughout the UK police service".
NCIS's Director of Intelligence indicated that corruption had
become "pervasive" and may have reached "level 2: the situation
which occurs in some Third World countries".
But the facts about police corruption in Britain today are being
deliberately concealed from the public. The confidential document
suggests the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) formulates
a strategy for dealing with "adverse publicity". A month after the
NCIS meeting, David Blakey, the president of ACPO, formally stated
that he and his colleagues believed "the true level of corruption
in the modern police service is extremely low".
The NCIS minutes state that "common activities" of corrupt officers
include theft of property and drugs during searches, planting of
drugs or stolen property on individuals, supplying details of
operations to subjects, providing tip-offs to criminal associates,
and destroying evidence.
It adds that "in severe cases, this also includes the committing of
serious crimes including armed robbery and drug dealing, or the
licensing and organising of such crimes".
The meeting decided that police corruption was so serious that NCIS
should be given the role of co-ordinating intelligence on corrupt
officers in every force in the country. MI5 and ACPO had both
agreed to that proposal. Regional forces should follow the
Metropolitan Police rules and establish hot lines so that honest
officers could inform on their corrupt colleagues in confidence.
The informant/handler relationship is identified as one which is
frequently used by corrupt officers to disguise what is in reality
a straightforwardly criminal liaison. "Many criminals believe that
by becoming informants they. . . are given an opportunity to
corrupt an officer."
It recommends that MI5-style security officers be appointed to
oversee handlers and informants.
Roger Gaspar, NCIS director of intelligence, suggested that
internal police investigation units were needed to mount covert
operations against the force's own officers. They should intercept
communications, tap phones, and use hidden microphones and cameras
to gain evidence. At the same time they should introduce rigorous
new security techniques to ensure that they themselves were not
infiltrated by corrupt officers.
The task is made difficult because "some of the most overtly honest
officers have actually been extremely corrupt".
The meeting had no doubt about the cause of the corruption crisis:
the multi-million pound drug trade. "The enormous volume of money
that is available to criminals, especially to drug importers and
dealers means that very large sums can be offered to corrupt
officers. Criminals are willing to pay to ensure their ability to
operate."
The meeting emphasised that combating corruption should include
investigating sources of leaks to the media. "Many officers do not
regard contact with the media. . . as corrupt."
The minutes also noted, without any apparent irony, that one of the
controls on corruption is "a vigorous, uncensored media’’

Yours faithfully,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Independent Police Complaints Commission,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Independent Police
Complaints Commission's handling of my FOI request 'Acting in the
public interest please supply the information requested'.

The public [me and others] are your paymasters therefore the public
should be given access to all the information that you hold.
Without transparency then we are doomed to repeat the past. It is
unacceptable that time and time again information is hidden by the
IPCC. Sensitive information only means embarrassing information
that would reveal the truth and may led to positive changes to
society and fuller performance of your remit to your paymasters. I
know you will just ignore what I have to say however I must try in
the public interest to secure the information in question.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ac...

Yours faithfully,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]

Dear Katy Barrows,

Everything that I ask for that is sensitive is withheld. I am yet
to have a positive response when I am asking for information that
would expose the police. This is not acting in the public interest.

Yours sincerely,

Derek Canning LLB [HONS]