27 August (Part 2) - Police corruption; there is no getting away from it
I used to be a police supporter but in the early 1990s I opened my front door to
two constables one of whom immediately punched me on the nose, I managed to get
my hand up in time to prevent too much damage but things may have been far worse
if his accomplice had not dragged him off me.
It was apparently a case of mistaken identity, the bloke living opposite at the
time was a wife abuser and I did get an apology after the Borough Commander
looked at my CCTV tape. He sent it to the Directorate of Professional Standards
(DPS) or whatever it was called back then and they lost it.
I know hate is a strong word but this law abiding citizen, never so much as a
parking or speeding fine, has hated the bastards ever since; and that was before
I became sort of related to Alastair Morgan whose brother was murdered by or on
the orders of Metropolitan Police officers.
The police are corrupt. The only time I beat them at their game was in 2011 when
Council Leader Teresa O’Neill instructed, or had someone instruct, the police to put a stop to this blog.
The police told me in writing that if I continued to
criticise Councillors I would be arrested. The DPS eventually instructed Bexley
Police to withdraw their threat. Since then it has been all down hill.
After Councillor Peter Craske thought that
blogging obscenities was a good idea
- the offending article was traced to his IP address and found along with another on his laptop - I
spent seven years trying to get Bexley police to investigate the crime and when
they made the most awful hash of it, complained to the DPS. Bexley police’s malpractice was self evident.
The DPS investigator agreed we (me and Elwyn Bryant) had a good case and
promised he would “get us a result”. In the end his report listed all sorts of
‘mistakes’ by Bexley police but concluded that not one of them had done anything
wrong at all. It seemed to be very likely that the report was favourable to our
case but someone had leaned on the investigating officer very hard and made him
change the concluding paragraph. Subsequently
the DPS admitted that too many of its officers are corrupt.
Their report failed to address some of the damning evidence
uncovered and suspicious correspondence submitted by Elwyn and me and those omissions
were referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. They refused to answer
any question about the evidence which the DPS had ignored and said the
appeals process was exhausted. The IOPC is corrupt too.
When Bexley Council
lied about me misbehaving in the Council Chamber and a year
after the event asked Bexley Police to rewrite their report of the alleged
incident to suit their crooked requirements, Greenwich Police were persuaded
that the evidence against Bexley Council was damning and sent a file to the CPS.
A year later a police informant told me how the CPS had managed to ‘lose’ all
the evidence. He was suitably shocked and the CPS never did get around to
sending Mick Barnbrook - who instigated the complaint - their report. Well they
wouldn’t want to admit the truth would they?
I shall skip over
the harassment allegations made by former Cabinet
Member Don Massey because this introduction to the main point of this blog is already too long.
So let’s get to the point. After a former Bexley Councillor made a
false statement to Kent Police that caused me to be charged with Harassment I
complained to Kent Police that a click or two on Bexley Council’s website would
have shown the main plank of her argument to be false, and if their Sergeant
Robbie Cooke had read even one or two of my blogs he would have realised that
the Councillor was attempting to lead him up the garden path. My complaint
provided a catalogue of the dubious comments contained within the Councillor’s
false statement.
A month ago an email came from Kent Police to say my complaint was rejected on
the grounds that although the CPS disagreed with them they still believed it
would be in the public interest to have me in Court.
After nearly eight years of tackling police corruption I was ready to give it up
as a useless occupation. I decided not to appeal their decision and enjoy what
is left of my retirement instead. My response to their email was short and to the point.
“So it is not only the Met Police that is corrupt to the core it is Kent
Police too. According to you there is no need for the investigating officer to
do anything at all. Utterly shameful.”
The following is not the original blog but an announcement placed here in February 2025
as part of the long term project to progressively restore old blogs.
The sworn Statement made by a Bexley Councillor to Kent Police included a great
many lies and one of the most outrageous was recorded here. However it could be
argued that publishing the lie is in breach of GDPR even though that law did not come into force until 25th May 2018.
If anyone makes a false claim about their own state of health, revealing what it
is - even though it is entirely untrue and verified as such by hospital visitors - could be construed
as breaching medical confidentiality.
The blog was removed on 2nd June 2019 but an archived copy remains available to legitimate enquirers.