Sorry that you feel this way TP, but I used to have a lot of respect for the Police. No more though.
Sparky was damaged and my house was also damaged to the sum of around £3,000 on the 10th Sept 2009. The Police took fingerprints from the spray tin and got a DNA sample from a garden implement from next door found near their broken window - next door was broken into as well. I chased Barnsley Police about progress every couple of weeks but was finally told on 17th November that the fingerprints and DNA could not be matched.
However, this was not what destroyed my respect for the Police.
A few years ago I suffered an attack from a possibly drug crazed lunatic who forced me off the road in Derby. My two children were in the car at the time. The Police lost the file, sent it to the wrong station, lost it again and then assured me that they were sorting it, even though no-one had been assigned to the case. I eventually put it a formal complaint and was phoned be a Chief Inspector who talked down to me like I was a piece of dirt. After 20 minutes on the phone he came round to my way of thinking and actually looked into the case. He found that no-one was looking into it, and got it moving gain. The file was sent to Sheffield Police and the assailant was questioned. He admitted forcing me off the road but as it was more than six months the CPS refused to prosecute, as he could only be prosecuted for a driving offence.
At the same time I was wrongly accused of speeding by the Wiltshire Speed Scameraship. I spent 18 months fighting the case until I was eventually aquitted. The Police told lies in court but covered it up when I was again forced to make a complaint. I wrote to the Chief Constable with an explanation of the cover up and evidence showing that the Professional Standards Department were telling lies and covering up a serious crime committed by a civilian police employee. He passed it to the Professional Standards Department to look into. :shock: The whole thing basically stank of cover up and lie after lie.
I was dazed throughout this whole ordeal as I couldn’t quite believe the blatancy on the cover up and the lengths they would go to just to get a conviction against an innocent person.
Now I have lost all respect for what I used to believe to be the best police force on the planet, and I haven’t even started on PC Mark Milton, PC Steven Akrill, PC Cristopher Walker, and the assailant of Ian Tomlinson, all of whom seem to be intent on demonstrating without doubt that there is one law for us and one law for them, and it seems to get worse by the minute.
Rant over.
Richard
I remember pictures in the club mag of you bowling along in that car.
