16 August (Part 1) - If you want to know the time, ask a policeman. Except in Bexley
When councillor
Colin Campbell went on TV and said “There is a small group
with a history of disrupting meetings and being abusive” he was effectively libelling Nick Dowling, who was easily identifiable having been named in several
newspapers, and all of his associates.
When Campbell said it was “quite obvious from the beginning they were there to disrupt
the meeting” he lied about all the members of the public present including the
Labour candidate for Lesnes ward in 2014. No one had an inkling of what Nicholas
had in mind before arriving at the Civic Centre when he surprised all his
associates with a whispered announcement.
Mick Barnbrook thought it justified a complaint to the council, a complaint still not answered.
To add to his knowledge of what had gone on Mick asked the police in a Freedom of Information
request to tell him the time they had received the council’s call. (CAD: Computer Aided Dispatch.)
Click to read the complete question.
The reply has come from the Borough Commander, Superintendent Peter Ayling
personally. He says that the time recorded in his log is personal information.
Where have I heard that before?
How can a time infringe someone’s privacy?
Maybe Peter Ayling is as corrupt as all his predecessors and exists primarily to
protect his political masters. Bexley police has a long history of such behaviour.
• They refused to take action when a council leader ran off with more than £2,000 of public funds.
• They threatened arrest of two bloggers when council leader Teresa O’Neill made up a story
and demanded their action.
• They brought trumped up charges against a blogger when a councillor concocted a
statement which didn’t accord with the evidence that had been collected.
• They told lies about their investigation into Bexley council’s obscene blog and
pretended to have carried out investigations when they hadn’t.
• They did nothing when Bexley council’s
negligent mismanagement led to an elderly lady
dying alone with an unanswered emergency call pendant around her neck.
• They succumbed to political interference after tracing obscene messages to
councillor Peter Craske’s telephone line.
• They ignored a CPS guidance note and ensured councillor Craske was never charged.
And now Superintendent Peter Ayling abuses the law by making out a time taken from a log is
personal information. There will be a complaint, but last time that happened the corruption extended
to raising the stakes from ’Personal Information’ to ‘Not in the Public Interest’.