Tuesday 25 October 2011

Papering Over The Cracks Gaping Chasms

A police force yesterday announced it would be placing rainbow stickers on the front desks of police stations in order to make gay and lesbians feel more confident about reporting crime.
/facepalm
North Wales police has a history of coming down strongly on those accused of homophobic crimes.

In 2006 they were criticised after hauling one of their own retired police officers through the courts when he called a woman colleague a ‘dyke.’
Criticism that was totally justified by the fact that the courts told them to go away and stop wasting everyone's time...
Former Detective Sergeant John Atkinson, 46, who had repeatedly apologised for the remark, was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing by magistrates and criticised the force for wasting taxpayers’ money.
It gets better...
During the hearing it emerged that Mr Atkinson, who served with North Wales Police for more than 22 years, faced trial even though the force’s then chief constable escaped prosecution for uttering a similar word.

Richard Brunstrom was apparently not charged despite referring to homosexuals as ‘queers’ during a meeting.
*sigh*

And we wonder why the police are leaving this failing system in droves, and leaving us just with the incompetents, the corrupt, and the jobsworths...
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14 comments:

  1. Anonymous25 October 2011 at 13:11

    I despair I really do.
    As some of the posters here point out we are sometimes hated,and we do ourselves no favours with rubbish like this.
    Jaded

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  2. Woman on a Raft25 October 2011 at 13:19

    It's all sex, sex, sex with the police these days.

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  3. Anonymous25 October 2011 at 13:27

    "....and leaving us just with the incompetents, the corrupt, and the jobsworths... "

    And you welcome the worst of these to your blog.....sufficient for a Planet Police credit.

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  4. Anonymous25 October 2011 at 13:32

    Julia/Anonymous,rather a sweeping statement.Which category do you assume I fall into?
    PS MTG please don't write "all three" it would be so predictable.
    Jaded

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  5. Anonymous25 October 2011 at 13:59

    "PS MTG please don't write "all three" it would be so predictable.
    Jaded"

    I am pleased to respond to a call for assistance in this matter.

    Categories of lazy, immoral and unhelpful (conspicuous by absence) should never be ignored in any comprehensive assessment of police.

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  6. tolkein25 October 2011 at 13:59

    If they really want to show how welcoming and diverse they are, maybe they could put a cross and candle out next to the Bible?

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  7. dickiebo25 October 2011 at 14:16

    '...leaving us just with the incompetents, the corrupt, and the jobsworths...'
    This is just soooo near the truth, I'm afraid.

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  8. SBC25 October 2011 at 14:19

    "North Wales police has a history of coming down strongly on those accused of homophobic crimes"

    Something about that sentence bothers me...

    ..probably just my sick dirty mind.

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  9. Gallovidian25 October 2011 at 14:27

    Why can't you say queer? or dyke?

    "If you want to know where power lies, ask who one dare not criticise!"

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  10. nisakiman25 October 2011 at 17:41

    Hey, Wow! Rainbow stickers! Almost makes me wish I was gay...

    Ye Gods and little fishes, is this a police force or a transgender outreach department? Isn't it about time they went out and caught some miscreants instead of sucking up (in a manner of speaking) to every minority-group-with-a-grievance?

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  11. Woman on a Raft25 October 2011 at 18:13

    is this a police force or a transgender outreach department?

    Best sit down, nisakiman; it's Greg George's ekwality klub

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/inpictures/pages/nwren.shtml

    So, yes, transgender outreach department. Yes, it really did used to be a police station.

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  12. Captain Haddock25 October 2011 at 19:09

    A police force yesterday announced it would be placing rainbow stickers on the front desks of police stations ..

    Has anyone bothered to ask George, Zippy & Bungle how they feel about it ? ... No .. thought as much .. ;)


    "North Wales police has a history of coming down strongly on those accused of homophobic crimes" ..

    Whilst sheep molesting passes as being normal behaviour ..

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  13. SBC26 October 2011 at 00:15

    "Has anyone bothered to ask George, Zippy & Bungle how they feel about it ? ... No .. thought as much .. ;)"

    No but lets not go into what PC Rod, WPC Jane and DS FreddiiiIIIEeee are getting up to!

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  14. JuliaM26 October 2011 at 05:38

    "...and we do ourselves no favours with rubbish like this."

    At least this is demonstrably a brainchild of the SMT and not a street-level cop 'going along to get along', as so many recent cases show.

    "It's all sex, sex, sex with the police these days."

    Must be those suggestive helmets ;)

    "If they really want to show how welcoming and diverse they are, maybe they could put a cross and candle out next to the Bible?"

    :D

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