An account by Mrs. Grootendorst
I am a community & environmental campaigner from Sidcup who after being
dissatisfied by poor police performance and inability to prevent crime in
this borough had reason to make a complaint of aggression, incivility and
unprofessional misconduct on 7th April to a Sgt. Lucy James of the Met DPS.
For that innocent complaint I felt the wrath of thuggish Bexley
Met police including several inspectors who had the duty of “investigating”
my complaint and who found the mob who I had complained about had not acted
improperly, and used their justification that I had no witnesses and the mob
of six males & females all backed each other.
I have suffered harassment by Bexley police, as well as being baited in
custody, prevented from making the phone call (my ignorance was exploited)
and I suffered shock and trauma the rest of 2011.
Both times it was a collusion to pervert the course of justice with no evidence and no reason to
prosecute. The CCTV evidence from the custody suite would support my
complaints. Also on 11th May when I got inside the police yard at
Bexleyheath there was a slightly-built thin dark skinned man who was rubbing
his arms and looking frightened. I wish I had asked about him but I could
not believe what was being done to me, and was not allowed to make any
counter complaint or statement from 11:30 a.m. until 10 p.m. that night. When
finally bailed without money or bus pass I got home at midnight.
The
last time on 9th July 2011 two policemen (Brant & Buckley) entered my home
and arrested me by jumping on my back – photos taken by my husband who could not pull them off me.
Without any evidence and acting on malicious falsehoods I have been arrested twice on May 11th
2011 and July 9th 2011, with harassment inbetween until local newspaper editor Bob
Griffiths, and Bexley CAB made independent enquiries about what was going
on. But I who have never before felt threatened in public have been a victim of
police brutality and criminal abuse of powers in my own home by rabid
uniformed police and their “superiors”. Hogan-Howe was asked by me to stop
the bullies in police uniform but his rhetoric does not extend to leadership or rectification.
The IPCC & Met police willfully flouting and violating common law, but most of
all the Equalities Act & Diversity legislation. I would like to reinstate my
complaints against the police but would need some support and guidance as
none of my friends or my efforts have got through the canteen culture of
indifference and cover-up.
Please see the photos of Brant & Buckley in action – I believe if I had been
alone they could have done much worse and that they ought never to be
allowed to abuse and physically attack anyone again.