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Saturday, April 30, 2005
Regionalisation
Friday, April 29, 2005
Liberal Immigration Policy - The Source
Monday, April 25, 2005
When the crime is to speak out
From The Sunday Telegraph
(Thanks to Steve for reminding me about this one!)
When the crime is to speak out
By Daniel Foggo
(Filed: 24/04/2005)Picture this: you are a retired senior policeman who has information that gun crimes are going unreported because some of your former colleagues are not registering them. You report what you know to a Sunday newspaper, and the next day two detectives knock on your door.
At first you might be impressed by their prompt reaction. But then you discover that your visitors are from the “professional standards” unit (the subdivision of every force that polices its own officers) and have no interest in the truth of your claim. What they want to know is which serving policemen have spoken to you.
They are not concerned that shootings are spiralling out of control while being deliberately unrecorded in order not to spoil the crime figures: no, they want to discipline the officers for speaking out of turn.
This is what happened to former Detective Superintendent Peter Coles last Monday. The day before he had been quoted in this newspaper saying that gun crime in Nottinghamshire, where he was once head of the CID, was under-reported. Criminals turning up in hospital with gunshot wounds were often reluctant to involve the police, which led officers to treat the incidents as “no crimes”, Mr Coles said.
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Just to annoy Mr FM, some piccys of my new BarryBoy style zorst!
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EU Regulation
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Trustme Tony
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Border Control
They’re off!
So, Trust Me Tony has decided that this is the time.
This means that the level of blogging on this site is going to be even lower than the half-arsed usual level!
Your intrepid correspondent is going to be very heavily involved in the campaign.















