Commissioner Carl Gumsley - Former Northumbria Police ACC Vant Independent Investigation, the Secret report

Martin McGartland made this Freedom of Information request to Independent Office for Police Conduct This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

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Martin McGartland

Martin McGartland

11 March 2017

Dear Independent Police Complaints Commission,

I am requesting that Commissioner Carl Gumsley and the IPCC disclose the Independent Investigation report, findings into serious allegations that I made against former Northumbria Police ACC Greg Vant.

The matter was investigated by IPCC Lead Investigator Alan Carey (Former North Yorkshire Police officer) and the findings are being kept secret from me and also the public.

I am very concerened that all of the allegations that I made against former ACC Greg Vant have not been fully investigated.

I am also requesting that the IPCC disclose all recorded information they hold concerning all decisions taken, made by Commissioner Carl Gumsley and his rational for not publishing this independent investigation report.

Yours faithfully,

Martin McGartland

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Martin McGartland

Martin McGartland

10 April 2017

Dear FOI Requests,

I would like a review of this request.

This request relates only to the IPCC investigation by Lead Investigator Alan Carey against former Northumbria Police ACC Greg Vant. It is not related to any previous requests I have made. Moreover, answering the request would not exceed £450.00, or the 18 hours at £25 per hour limit. The exemption/s you have cited would not be engaged regarding this request.

Some parts of thius request will relate to DPA, my personal data, as parts of the Investigation report relate to me. I would like the IPCC to email me (via the email address they hold for me) all recorded information they hold regarding the DPA (or subject access) part of this request.

Yours sincerely,

Martin McGartland

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Martin McGartland (Account suspended) left an annotation ()

Why is the IPCC covering up and suppressing their "independent" Investigation report into this case? Martin McGartland says; "Because the IPCC have Whitewashed it, have not carried out a proper investigation.... that's way. They have much to hide. The IPCC are the police, the police as the IPCC). The following is the text of Sunday Times story - published 21 January 2018 -

Burglary arrest of Police chief's singer son 'hushed up'

A Northumbria officer paid compensation to a victim and colleagues deleted records of the £30,000 crime

Tom Harper and Robin Henry, Sunday Times January 21, 2018

A senior police officer's son was arrested on suspicion of burglary - but he was not charged, his father compensated the victim and details of the incident were deleted from the force's database.

Matthew Vant was questioned under caution on suspicion of burglary and criminal damage when he was a 19 year-year old university student after a party at his flat spilt over into a shop downstairs.

Detectives who went to the shop, a Cartridge World in Sunderland, found ink all over the walls, while a vintage record collection and several computers were missing. The investigating officer estimated the damage to be £30,000.

Vant is the lead singer of a punk rock band, also called Vant, who have performed at Glastonbury festival and on BBC Radio 1. His father, Greg, is a former assistant chief constable of Northumbria police.

Following the arrest of his son in November 2009, the force authorised the matter to be settled through the community resolution scheme with the shop owner receiving an apology and £1,000 from Greg Vant, who was still serving at the time. Such settlements do not lead to a criminal record.

When the incident was brought to the attention of senior officers, details of the crime were deleted from internal police databases. The decision is understood to have been an attempt to prevent the incident being leaked to the media.

Information about Vant's arrest was printed off before deletion and secretly retained in the force's safe.

A whistleblower who leaked details of the burglary incident to The Sunday Times said he thought the action taken by senior officers was completely inappropriate. "it seems it is one rule for the public and another for friends of Northumbria Police," said the source.

In 2016, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) received a complaint about the incident. The police watchdog, which changed its name this month to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, launched an independent investigation, which concluded that Greg Vant had no case to answer. He denies any involvement in the investigation into his son and said the decision to delete the logs was taken by a colleague.

He said his son had been "stupid" but was not guilty of any criminal offence. Northumbria Poilice said the IPCC "found no evidence of misconduct".

(** The above story is the text as it appears in the Sunday Times newspaper on 21 January 2018).

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