‘It’s still accepted practice to display soft porn.’ ibid. Nina
‘What I saw was endemic sexism.’ ibid. Professor Liz Kelly
‘Take this sort of thing with a pinch of salt.’ ibid. rozzer describing senior officer’s attitude to rape
Less than 4% of rapes in Leicestershire are solved. ibid. commentary
‘What are we? If I’m ever raped then fucking hell I’m not reporting it to the police. I’d rather do myself in because the help you get from these people is ridiculous.’ ibid. female rozzer
‘The sergeant’s told us to go and get a Chinese tonight for the shift … When we get there we park on double yellow lines … We get a massive discount; it’s only a pound a head … We’re clearly abusing our authorities.’ ibid. Nina
‘First night’s shift my shift the guys tend to be playing poker or watching DVDs.’ ibid.
‘They’ve decided to play cricket along the corridors.’ ibid.
Time-wasting at night was habitual. ibid. commentary
Failed to respond to emergency calls. ibid.
Members of this Labour government once spoke out eloquently for civil liberties. That government is now enacting measures from identity cards to restrictions on free speech that are unprecedented in modern times. And its leader maintains that these new laws are needed to make us all safer. There is little evidence that these new laws and powers are actually making us any more secure. But there is evidence such changes are making us less free to speak our minds. Dispatches: Stealing Away Your Freedom, Channel 4 2009
You now have to seek police permission to hold a demonstration within eleven hundred yards of parliament. ibid.
Trainspotting: a full body-search in a public place. ibid.
They also seem curiously zealous when it comes to investigating unfashionable opinions. ibid.
This sort of policing may not be familiar here but other countries know it all too well. ibid.
The move to allow detention of suspects for thirty days is a direct blow at habeas corpus which is meant to prevent anyone being held without charge. What’s more, Labour and Tory governments have seriously discussed limiting jury trial. The prime minister himself clearly thinks that he knows better than centuries of British tradition ... How is it that these benevolent liberal-minded people have ended up presiding over the current bonfire of liberties? ibid.
There are now 24,000 under-18s on the official DNA database who have never been cautioned or convicted. ibid.
But News International was not the only organisation in damage limitation mode. The Metropolitan Police were also on the defensive. Their original phone-hacking inquiry aroused fierce criticism. Limited in scope, it raised more questions than it answered. Dispatches: Tabloids’ Dirty Secret, Channel 4 2011
Many blame what they see as an unhealthy relationship between the police and the News of the World. ibid.
With the anything-goes culture and cutthroat competition that Rupert Murdoch instilled, it was inevitable that tabloid staff would look for shortcuts. And it was only a matter of time before they targeted their considerable resources on the police. And some of them were only too happy to oblige. The journalists even had a system of paying for the service. Dispatches: How Murdoch Ran Britain, Channel 4 2011
The incestuous links between News International and the Met go all the way to the top. Which is why eight days ago Britain’s most senior police officer resigned. ibid.
The web of connections between News International, politicians and the police explains the otherwise insoluble mystery of why it’s taken a full five years for the prodigious scale of News International law-breaking to emerge. ibid.
An undercover cop reveals all about Britain’s police spies. For decades undercover agents have infiltrated political campaigns and protest groups. Dispatches: The Police’s Dirty Secret, Channel 4 2013
A top-secret special branch division called the Special Demonstration Squad called the SDS. ibid.
Peter rose to become a branch secretary of Youth Against Racism in Europe. ibid.
He and other police spies were in fact looking for intelligence that could discredit the family [Lawrence] and the campaign. ibid.
Whilst the Met were supposed to be catching Stephen’s killers, they were also secretly collecting intelligence that could be used to smear the family and the campaign. ibid.
Police spies continue to operate in protest groups. ibid.
We have paid police for information in the past. Rebekah Brooks, evidence to parliamentary sub-committee 11th March 2003
Murdoch in a daring move shifted his business in a single night from Fleet Street to a fortified compound in Wapping, shutting the unions out. He needed a private army to contain the violence. And he got one from the Metropolitan Police. After Wapping, a close relationship developed between the top floors of News International and Scotland Yard. The paper printed pro-Met stories, and the Met fed leads on investigations. Murdoch: The Mogul Who Screwed the News, Channel 4 2011
The police concluded it was one rogue reporter. They shelved evidence on the phone-hacking of four thousand people. ibid.
The police ... surprisingly decided to close the investigation ... Why were the police not informing more victims and taking further action? Frontline: Murdoch’s Scandal, Channel 4 2012
The police contradicted The Guardian’s story. ibid.
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don’t have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want – not only you, your whole family and all people like you. Ai Weiwei
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This film reveals how police officers break the law. And how their colleagues go the extra mile to catch them. Breaking the Law: Bent Coppers, Channel 5 2015
Sheffield: Jon Webb was a PC in South Yorkshire police ... Cash had disappeared ... Six years in prison. ibid.
Dustin Hunter was suspended by the force for drug dealing ... Seven years. ibid.
Nicholas McFadden stole drugs seized by his colleagues ... Twenty-three years. ibid.
Chris Robson hunts out bent cops ... Karakas was a police constable ... The Standard had reported on Karakas ... Karakas was involved in major organised crime ... Began planning the brutal kidnap of a bank manager ... He was playing the role of TV gangster ... 13 years behind bars. ibid.
PC Rebecca Swanston had sex with known criminals ... Three years. ibid.
Alexis Scott at Gatwick Airport. ibid.
Some are driven by sex ... The man behind the texts was PC Jamie Slater ... Three and a half years. ibid.
A scathing report on the LAPD from the human rights group Amnesty International. News report
At times it has amounted to torture, or cruel or inhuman or degrading treatment. Where people have been beaten, tasered, shot, or attacked by police dogs. It is frankly an appalling record. Ian Martin, Amnesty International, re LAPD
Chase them. Show them what discipline is. Carry on Constable 1960 starring Sid James & Eric Barker & Kenneth Connor & Charles Hawtrey & Kenneth Williams & Leslie Phillips & Joan Sims & Hattie Jacques & Shirley Eaton & Irene Handl et al, director Gerald Thomas, head rozzer to James
You’ll all sleep together. ibid. James to new rozzers
I’ve lost my pussy. ibid. lady owner of ‘Fluff’
British policing is under pressure like never before. Forces up and down the country must cope with new types of crime, ever changing targets and the biggest cuts to their budgets in modern times. Police Under Pressure I: Uneasy Peace, BBC 2014
In South Yorkshire crime has fallen. But the Force still has some of the highest rates of property crime in Britain. Police Under Pressure II
‘Why do people have to do this?’ ibid. elderly victim of attempted burglary
A trend is emerging of asking victims in effect to carry out investigations themselves. HMIC report September 2014