Dudley Council leader Patrick Harley said he has "lost all confidence" in the borough's police commander Kim Madill and urged her to "consider her position".
He claims she breached protocol by refusing to move on travellers who had stayed at the Budden Road transit site in Coseley for longer than the 28-day period allowed by law.
Did she have a good reason? Reader, she had...well, a reason:
Chief Superintendent Madill said in making her decision she had ensured the force was "recognising diversity" and "demonstrating our care and compassion for difference".
Peel would have a stroke if he were alive and reading that! What has it got to do with the fact that they are breaking the law?
Patrick is not imprtessed:
"If she wants to play at being a politician she should give up the uniform and stand for election. There is a protocol in place for dealing with travellers.
"They are not homeless. They are living in caravans on a transit site, which means they can stay for a maximum of 28 days and it's not for her to decide if and when they are moved on.
"I believe her political feelings are affecting her judgment, and in this instance her judgment is flawed.
"She should consider her position."
A position she clearly should be in, in the first place:
In an email to residents explaining her decision, Ch Supt Madill said the travellers had not been involved in any anti-social behaviour or criminality and were "part of our community at the time".
Except they had, by not moving on when required to do so...
"I posed myself the questions – if this was a normal landlord/tenant dispute where a tenant had failed to vacate at the end of their tenancy agreement, would the police get involved?"
But it wasn't. This is the 'if my auntie had balls she'd be my uncvle' defence. And it won't wash...
Assistant Chief Constable for local policing, Rich Baker said: "I fully support Chief Superintendent Madill who has taken a sensitive and proportionate approach to dealing with this matter.
"We will continue to work closely with the council on all matters - including unlawful encampments - for the good of everyone who lives, works or visits Dudley."
Except those who don't live or work in Dudsley, they can clearly do as they likey, eh, Rich?
H/T: Ted Treen via email
Did you have finger trouble this morning, Julia?
ReplyDeleteIf you want to make idle Plod laugh, just report any incident of real criminality to the uniformed scum.
ReplyDeleteDespite the woke attitude of the fuzz, check with the OED - get travelling.
ReplyDeleteUsual embarrassingly out of touch senior officer. They don't get that high by being mavericks or doing what law-abiding citizens want...like enforcing the law.
ReplyDeleteJaded
"....in making her decision she had ensured the force was "recognising diversity" and "demonstrating our care and compassion for difference".
ReplyDeletePure common purpose speak. It infests every institution from top to bottom.
I wonder if Ch Supt Madil could provide details of the number of times travellers have left school playing fields, village greens, car parks, and private fields in as ggod as, or even better, condition when they left than they were in were in when they moved into that land? Of course, masses of car engines, rancid mattersses, bags of human excretia, and bits of scaveneged, stolen, properties, should not be taken into consideration. Also, crime figures, before and after the infestation would make interesting reading, though not often available to the common people.
ReplyDeleteDespite claiming not to be able to read of write, they have, presumably original, driving licences and, often, a greater knowledge of the law than many Police officers. From experience, they often force open a window in a property, and push a 5 or 6 y4ar old through the gap, where they ransack the rooms and pass property through to their waiting parents. If, or when, they are apprehended by the Police (don't laugh, it does sometimes happen), being below the age of knowledger of criminal responsibility, they are handed back to their thieving parents.
Over to you, Ch Supt Madil. Waitiing for your comments.
Penseivat
Everywhere you look these are the types who have been promoted, it is not by accident, the institutions of the country are failing, it is by deliberate design.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who shows the slightest sign of common sense or a sense of tradition service or loyalty to the working and tax paying people of the country is ruled out for advancement at an early age.
You only have to look at the Met for the best example.
There is non one in authority with gravitas competence or wit to call a halt to the accelerating flushing of our country round the U bend and anyone showing such qualities will be crushed, if that fails then the owned media will do what is necessary.
"Did you have finger trouble this morning, Julia?"
ReplyDeleteOh, clearly! My application to edit the Daily Fail will be in the post! 😊
"Usual embarrassingly out of touch senior officer. "
Is there any other kind now?
"Pure common purpose speak. It infests every institution from top to bottom."
Yes, as Judd points our, by design.
"I wonder if Ch Supt Madil could provide details of the number of times travellers have left school playing fields, village greens, car parks, and private fields in as ggod as, or even better, condition when they left than they were in were in when they moved into that land?"
Heh! Almost certainly not.
Yet true Romany type gypsies were once welcomed by farmers, because they respected the land they were allowed to halt on. What happened?
"Everywhere you look these are the types who have been promoted, it is not by accident, the institutions of the country are failing, it is by deliberate design."
That long march through the institutions worked well, didn't it?