a worker's views
Another police officer has been found guilty of a heinous offence. This time it is Lee Martin-Cramp, a 26 year old Metropolitan Police officer who was found guilty of rape. Martin-Cramp was on holiday in Antigua where he used Tinder to meet a US woman who was on the island to attend a family wedding. … Read more
Guardian Friday 3 Aug 2018 PC Daniel Reed was one of six officers from Durham police who went to the Dalesman pub in Darlington to arrest a 43-year-old man on suspicion of a public order offence and witness intimidation on 8 November 2016. When the man did not cooperate, officers deployed pepper spray and then … Read more
You do not have to be a trained detective to work out that young black men are much more likely to be stopped and searched than young white men. As Mr Olisa puts it, it is ‘accepted practice’ to stop young black men to try to boost arrest rates for drugs such as cannabis. He … Read more
A Northamptonshire police officer was convicted today of murdering his wife. Adrian Goldsmith, a Nothamptonshire police officer, was accused of killing his wife by beating her with a mallet, a battery and a can of paint. When he rang the police he claimed she had attacked him and he had killed her in self-defence. Observers of police … Read more
I was looking up some facts and figures about our thin blue line “heroes” when I cam across this article from the Telgraph, which is almost 3 years old now. But I could not have put it any better myself. The facts speak for themselves: Forces across England and Wales employ policemen and women with … Read more