Tag Archives: Police
Police free to kill
Friends and family of Kingsley Burrell, a 29 year old father who recently died in suspicious circumstances while in the custody of the police, gathered in Birmingham city centre on Saturday 2nd July and marched with a crowd of over 1000 people to West Midlands police headquarters in an angry protest calling for justice and [...]
Andy Hayman and the CIB
Andy Hayman was in charge of Complaints Investigation Bureau – the Met police’s internal anti-corruption group. It turns out they were more corrupt than the coppers they were investigating. MPs demand inquiry into the Met’s ‘Untouchables’, accused of using the same illegal police tactics they are sworn to fight Corruption Squad under fire ‘Untouchables’of the [...]
Andy Hayman – the UK’s most bent copper
Andy Hayman sat before a government home affairs select committee on 12th July over the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World that he was charged with investigating in 2005 and, despite his barrow-boy-made-good persona and incredulous performance, lied through his teeth. We take a brief look at the history of the most [...]
‘Untouchables’of the Met drop corrupt supergrass
The Metropolitan police’s secretive anti-corruption squad has dropped one of its top supergrasses after two years. The surprise move means the supergrass, the convicted former Met detective, Terry McGuinness, will now be sentenced for his own corrupt activities spanning six years. The decision last week that Mr McGuinness is no longer considered a reliable witness [...]
‘Clean-up’ police branded corrupt
MPs demand inquiry into the Met’s ‘Untouchables’, accused of using the same illegal police tactics they are sworn to fight Senior police officers who worked in Scotland Yard’s Anti-Corruption Squad on a series of high-profile cases are themselves under investigation after allegations that they manipulated evidence to secure convictions against fellow officers. The revelation came [...]
Met police involvement in contract murder?
This is what the family of murdered private investigator Daniel Morgan and their MPs Roger Williams and Chris Smith have feared for many years. Daniel had repeatedly expressed concerns over police corruption before his murder. These fears have grown tenfold in the past year as details of four failed police inquiries have emerged for the [...]
News in brief
The wrong side of the law The police have never really had a problem protecting their own against accusations of wrong doing. Every death in custody, every false confession gained through threats and coercion, every act of intimidation on the beat or unparalleled violence on a demonstration, the police have over the years managed to [...]
Ian Tomlinson killed by police – official
The jury in the inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson returned a verdict of unlawful killing today after the newspaper vendor was killed by police during the G20 protests in London in 2009. They took just three hours and fifteen minutes to reach their verdict and the court was caught unawares by the jury’s [...]
G20 policing in the dock
Counting the cost of state sanctioned violence The anti-G20 protests in the heart of London’s financial district on 1st April 2009 still resonant with interesting if uncertain implications for anarchists and radicals two years on. What was an expansive, intense and violent policing operation, thousands of protesters were kettled and beaten with impunity as they [...]
Corruption Squad under fire
The Metropolitan police’s much vaunted anti-corruption drive, which has been under way for six years, is now itself the subject of three inquiries because of allegations over the way it operates, an investigation by the Guardian has revealed. The inquiries into the complaints investigation branch (CIB), two of them internal and one by an outside [...]