http://www.supportfoxhunting.co.uk/news_special_040905_metpolrevenge.shtml
Kate Lovelace, an insurance agent from Marlborough in Wiltshire who rides with the South Dorset Hunt, was also at the demonstration and made a formal complaint to the IPCC about police behaviour. In February she received a letter from the Metropolitan Police telling her that they had a warrant for her arrest. She said: "I was surprised that I was being charged with something then that I had allegedly done in September. I was also curious as to how they managed to get hold of my details as I was not arrested during the protest. They must have got them from the complaints authority."

The charges were dropped in March. A spokesman for the IPCC said that it was duty bound to pass on complainants' details to the police. It said, however, that it was not responsible for what the police decided to do with the details. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "To suggest that anyone was arrested because they had made a complaint to the IPCC is entirely wrong. Anyone who believes this to be the case is advised to report this to the IPCC for their investigation.
Could someone go through that slowly for me . . . Report it to the IPPC for investigation? . . . Isn’t that what she did? . . That’s what’s known as being in ‘The Loop’ . . . The eternal LOOP

It’s not all bad news though.
http://www.mpa.gov.uk/committees/psc/2002/021017/06.htm

Timeliness of complaints Metropolitan Police Authority Report: 6
Date: 17 October 2002
2. The report outlines the current performance picture in the MPS, which has been declining in recent years, and has not achieved the 120-day completion target since 1999. The MPS has been monitoring this situation closely and has introduced a variety of measures in an attempt to reduce the time to investigate complaints. The result of these interventions has only been to slow down rather than reverse the trend.

In fact Met Police have solved the problem . . . What they do is not accept your complaint but promise to look into it as a “matter” . . THEN they ignore it . . . The beauty of this system is they are not ‘ignoring complaints’  . . merely “matters. .  and The IPCC go along with it.
http://www.glalibdems.org.uk/news/311.html
Liberal Democrat London Assembly policing spokesperson, Graham Tope, said:-
"The rising trend in complaints against the police is deeply worrying. Serious questions must be asked as to why there is such a continual increase in reports against officers and the Met itself. "Satisfaction in local policing remains low, and these results will further undermine Londoners' trust in, and perception of, the police. "The Met must urgently get its house in order to ensure that they can rebuild the confidence and trust of Londoners."
Need I say more?
http://www.copwatcher.f2s.com/complaints/Index.htm#Post_Lawrence
Distrust amongst the public, the way that officers handling complaints routinely and aggressively push for complaints to be informally resolved and the failure to take disciplinary action has led many to instead take civil actions through the courts. For example, since 1991, the cost to the Metropolitan police of civil action settlements has risen every year.
THAT is exactly what I complain about on my own site www.metpolicecroydon.co.uk
A great site this  . . Not a rant . . . lots and lots to see . . well laid out and full of facts.
http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/pr271005_summonsmet.htm
27/10/2005 The Independent Police Complaints Commission has summonsed a Metropolitan Police Service officer for assault causing actual bodily harm.
The summons arises from the disturbances in Parliament Square, outside the Houses of Parliament, on 15 September 2004. . . . PC Barry Jenkins has been summonsed to appear at Bow Street Magistrates' Court on 17 November.
Can someone walk me through this one then? . . . Isn’t it the protestors that were supposed to be arrested?
http://www.justice4daniel.co.uk/pages/inquiries.htm
On 10th March 1987, private investigator Daniel Morgan was brutally axed to death in the car park of a pub in Sydenham, south east London. During the first Met inquiry, three serving detectives were arrested on suspicion of involvement for the killing. One of these was actually a member of the squad investigating the murder. The two other officers later won damages as a result of their arrest.
Everywhere you look on this well laid out site you find intrigue, denial, conflict of interests, fudging. . . (I lived in Sydenham at the time and remember it well . . little did I think I would be writing about it so many years later.) . .
Troubled by the secrecy of this inquiry, the Morgan family demanded disclosure of the 1989 report from Hampshire police. DAC Roy Clark agreed to this, but the family rejected his draconian terms. First he requested that the family indemnify Hampshire police against civil action before reading the report. When this was rejected, he offered to read the 83 page report to the family but would allow them to take no notes or record. The family began litigation to force disclosure.
In my experience when conditions are laid down for telling you the truth . . . you know you are on a winner . . . . what’s all that about eh? . . “Read it to them . .  but can’t take notes?” And then I found this.
http://sydenham.org.uk/daniel_morgan.html
Since the last inquiry, the family have forced disclosure through the High Court of two police reports on the murder, one by Hampshire police and one by the Met.
"It's now clear to us that the first two inquiries were appallingly negligent and thoroughly dishonest" says Daniel's brother, Alastair. Police conducting the last inquiry told us they were convinced that a named officer was centrally involved in the murder, but that the evidential opportunities lost in that inquiry were irreparable. We now know that the Coroner's inquest was seriously misled, that vital information was withheld from the Police Complaints Authority, that the Home Secretary Jack Straw was misled in 1998 by senior Met officers and that parliament itself was misled in 2004.
No wonder they had to go to the High Court  . . Just to get the Police to tell the truth.
COMMENT: This case has cast a shadow over the people responsible for policing our area. The reluctance to openly and transparently review the case only increases suspicion and doubt. With the increasing powers being given to the police it is essential they do all they can to ensure they should be trusted. This is an important issue of confidence for the people of Sydenham as well as justice for the family.
(from conversations down the pub I have been told that everyone knows who did it and why . . it’s common knowledge . . but nobody is going to tell. . . . which seems about right when dealing with the MET) . . . As far as I’m concerned you can add Croydon Police to that too.
http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm/ses/sq=2001061940/ct=2
WHO'S POLICING THE POLICE?
(Investigation into the activities of the Police Complaints Authority) For the first time in its history, a prominent European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has been censored by a nation under investigation. And that nation is us. Si Mitchell reviews the implications of the CPT's damning indictment of police malpractice in the UK and reveals why Jack Straw is so keen for the cover up.
Lots of stuff about human rights . . . Good professional site.
INQUEST is working with the family of Roger Sylvester and their lawyers. We have major concerns about the number of restraint related deaths in police custody and the procedures for holding those responsible to account which serve neither the public interest nor the family of the deceased.
"The investigation has not centred on the behaviour of the eight officers who laid hands on my son that fateful night. Their actions were not investigated with the thoroughness and rigour that would have been the case had they been civilians. This is unjust. Instead Essex Police chose to investigate Roger, the victim, in an attempt to blame him for his own death."
The Police Complaints Authority, being satisfied with the conduct of the Essex investigation, issued an 'interim statement' on 21 October 1999 and the files were passed to the Crown Prosecution Service. A decision by the CPS as to whether to bring charges is the culmination of that police investigation.
Copies of the file also went to the Coroner and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Neither the family nor their lawyers will see all of the Investigating officer's final completed report as it is covered by public interest immunity. Despite a Home Office circular last year recommending release of at least part of an investigating officer's report to bereaved families, the experience of INQUEST so far is that the Metropolitan Police Service will not even allow parts of the Essex police report to be supplied to the family.
Very sad site . . More prevarication, misinformation deliberate? and otherwise.
http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/malcolm.html
The case of Malcolm Kennedy and Patrick Quinn must rank among the most worrying of the many miscarriages of British justice. It involves not only the conviction of an innocent man but also the so far successful cover-up of a murder committed by police officers. Kennedy from Hackney, a middle aged slightly-built man with no history of violence, was arrested for drunkenness in the early hours of Christmas Eve 1990. He was taken to Hammersmith Police station and locked in a cell where he fell asleep. Patrick Quinn (from Donegal in Ireland) also arrested for being drunk, ended up in the same cell.
Kennedy was woken up by a struggle in the cell, between a police officer and Quinn. He tried to intervene but was punched unconscious. Later he was woken up by 3 policemen in the cell. Patrick's body was on the floor, all but one of his ribs smashed, his heart and spleen crushed, his face pulped. The 3 officers told Malcolm "you did this."
The police investigation into Quinn's death was either utterly incompetent or not an investigation at all, but an attempt to conceal the factors. Officers had (and took) the opportunity to clean the uniforms they were supposed to hand over for forensic tests, the log book showing who visited the cell was "lost" (just one of several vital documents which have disappeared). Procedures for calling in the Police Complaints Authority and pathologist were not followed.
You know . . . when Log Books and pocket books go missing I always get a tad suspicious . Bit like that one that went missing on the submarine that sank the Belgrano . . Nobody has ever explained to me how ANYTHING goes missing on a submarine?
Hang on though . . This ones turned up
The case went back to the Court of Appeal on 11.2.93 which ordered a retrial so as the jury could hear all the evidence. At the Court of Appeal PC Welsh revealed that he had conveniently "found" his "lost" notebook; he'd had it in a wallet stuck behind his new pocketbook and had carried it around for months without knowing! Unfortunately for PC Welsh when he was asked to show where he'd had the notebook, he couldn't fit it back in the wallet.
You can’t help but be moved by the injustice that appears evident from reading this case . . . I intend to use my AWSOME web power to push this case to Page 1 . . .
Help wanted here Google and MSN

AWESOME???? . . On an MSN search  . . Incompetent Met Police  . . My site came up No2 in the World . (and 4, 6, 7 &29) .2nd only to www.met.police.uk . . . above the BBC, The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent . . and 230,425 other sites . . . AWESOME indeed. . .
Above even The Guardian where I find this lovely tit bit.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,8150,1606175,00.html
Poor education 'makes police look incompetent'
Mark Oliver and agencies Tuesday November 1, 2005
Poor standards of education among police recruits may create the impression
(duuurrrr) that officers are incompetent or "little better" academically than criminals, a new study says.
The former inspector of schools, Chris Woodhead, who is one of the authors of the study, said today that he was shocked that police entrance exams were "way below" the standards of GCSEs. The 150-page study, published tomorrow by the right-leaning thinktank Politeia, is highly critical of police recruitment and training.
It says low standards of education among officers may make routine tasks, such as writing reports, or rudimentary numeracy, more taxing than they would be for an "abler person".
No that’s not fair . . If you want an Organisation that can lose evidence, run around like a lot of headless chickens (see Mark Gore’s Croydon TWAT Team), read reports and not realise who the complaint is about . . . .  (see Mark Stockford Crime Manager Croydon MET)  . . . The Metropolitan (it’s irony) Police are entirely competent.
http://www.human-rights.demon.co.uk/police.htm
These pages . . . suffice to establish who does or does not perform (their public duties) within the Law Enforcement Agencies maintained by successive UK governments over the years. All feel free to, and indeed do, act as they please within the confines of the well known self regulating institutions they look up to and rely upon. Such as the police investigating the police and reporting to alleged independent laymen. Persons who are dependent on the 'experts who manipulate the system and or rely on such other provisions the 'experts' invariably call and rely upon.
A rip roaring RANT this . . . . Masses of content but a bit dated . . useful stuff none the less.
http://inquest.gn.apc.org/briefings/stanley.html
Even though Mr Stanley had clear identification and contact details on him, including his passport, his bankbook and his birth certificate, and the shooting took place only one hundred yards from his home, his widow was not informed about his death for more than eighteen hours after his death. His body was left lying uncovered in the street for several hours and blood on the ground from his injuries was not cleaned up. The failure to inform the family of his death meant that the family was unable to instruct their own legal and medical representatives to be present when the first post mortem took place on the 23rd September, the morning after the shooting. Once located by the police the family was given no information from the police about where they could go for advice and support. An initial offer by the police to pay for the funeral expenses was withdrawn. They have also received no letter of condolence from the Metropolitan Police. The officers involved have not been suspended but have been removed from firearm duties.
There has been much reported about this case but I didn’t know this . . . . presumably the delay was thinking what to do when they discovered it wasn’t a sawn off shotgun but a table leg . . . . either way the well being of the family was not the prime consideration here was it?
As in my case . . . It’s bad enough when the Police cock it up . . . But it’s worse when those in charge don’t even apologise . . . do they Vicki Marr? . . do they Mark Gore?
http://www.unclenicks.net/bilderberg/www.bilderberg.org/drugs.htm
Date: September 20 1998  Source: Sunday Times (UK)
'Serpico' claims Scotland Yard elite ran drug cartel by Nicholas Rufford, Home Affairs Editor
DRUG rackets worth millions of pounds were run from inside Britain's biggest police force, according to a former Scotland Yard detective who is to publish his allegations.
The officer, dubbed "Serpico" by friends after the New York police officer who was pilloried for exposing corruption, described sections of the drug squad and the regional crime squad at Scotland Yard as the "most professional criminal cartels in Britain". He is writing a book in which he alleges that officers stole drugs, paid phantom informants and fabricated evidence.
Duncan MacLaughlin, a detective for 18 years, is believed to be the first officer to talk openly about alleged corruption within the elite squads in which he worked. His claims are likely to give renewed urgency to the efforts by Sir Paul Condon, the Met Police Commissioner, to stamp out criminal activity within the force. Condon has already launched a wide-ranging inquiry into police corruption, and has set up CIB3, a special unit of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, to investigate.
MacLaughlin, 38, who admits he was not "straighter than straight", spent five years in the drug squad and five years in the London-based regional crime squad, which drew the best detectives from forces across southern England to investigate serious crime.
He described the regional squad, which he left in 1994, as like Colditz, the second world war prison. "You put all the clever ones, all the brains, in one office, and you got the cleverest scams. There were no better criminals in the country . . . I was a member of the most professional criminal cartel that Britain has ever produced."
Old stuff but reads fresh as a daisy . . like watching a film from  that period . . you knew it went on but where was the evidence?
http://www.policeabuseofpower.co.uk/index2.html
Since opening this Website many letters and messages received clearly indicate our Judicial System is getting into an ALMIGHTY MESS - more crooked and unjust - and although Prime Minister Blair & Home Secretary Blunkett are aware of this corruption they do nothing which seems to indicate they are part of it....and it is difficult to say who is in the worst mess....our Judicial System or our New Labour Government!!!
DO POLICE CARE THAT INJUSTICE CAN BE MORE DAMAGING THAN MURDER OR EVEN RAPE?
JUSTICE IS VITALLY IMPORTANT TO US ALL SO WE MUST STOP POLICE "STITCH-UPS" AND ALLOW OUR COURTS TO ADMINISTER REAL JUSTICE.
UNLESS POLICE AND COURTS RECOGNISE THERE ARE FAULTS AND SOME CORRUPTION IN OUR PRESENT JUDICIAL SYSTEM WE HAVE LITTLE HOPE OF FINDING A REMEDY......BUT WE MUST KEEP TRYING.
THOSE WHO FEEL THEY HAVE BEEN UNJUSTLY PENALISED BY OUR POLICE OR COURTS MUST BE GIVEN THEIR RIGHT TO SPEAK-UP.....AND DEMAND A FAIR HEARING.
PRESENTLY MANY HAVE GOOD REASON TO FEAR OR HATE OUR POLICE........TO GAIN OUR RESPECT THE POLICE MUST EARN IT.
WHETHER RICH OR POOR WE MUST ALL EXPECT JUSTICE.....OR DEMAND IT IF NECESSARY.....JUSTICE FOR ALL.....NOT ONLY FOR THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD IT.

 Fabulous site this . . . Ian Johnston’s real insider knowledge . . So much to it and he names names fearlessly. . I find a great empathy here since it is his first go at building a web site too.
YOU WANT A WARDROBE MOVED IN CROYDON? . . DIAL 999 AND THE CROYDON MET POLICE WILL SEND A SQUAD CAR AND DO IT FOR YOU.  . .
( if you are black that is . . don’t bother if you are white)
SEE WHAT SIR IAN BLAIR HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOUR OF HIS OFFICERS IN THE CROYDON MET POLICE.
CLICK HERE
How the Met Police London complaints figures are massaged.
http://www.glalibdems.org.uk/news/311.html “London Assembly Liberal Democrats released figures that show that there has been a 14% increase in the number of complaints lodged against the police in the last year.” .  .  .THIS is what they do.
Go to Law Society’s Dirty Tricks Page.
In association with Richard Hegarty of  Peterborough Solicitors Hegarty & Co
Instructing Matt Jacob of
Willoughby & Ptnrs London EC14
Visit THE Croydon Council info site www.croydoncouncil.info
NEW
Croydon Council’s Dirty Tricks Page.
Local Government Ombudsman. (LGO) Jerry White washes report of maladministration.
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Go see “Corrupt” Met Police on NEXT Page
Colin’s CRAP POLICE LINKS page . . . . this is my attempt to assemble some good links to sites about Crap, Corrupt, Lazy, Incompetent Constabulary especially in The London Metropolitan Police and their supposed watchdogs The Independent Police Complaints Commission . . or even some commendable Policing. . each link has a quote from  that site  
My comments are in green. From reading dozens of sites on the theme I have come to the conclusion that if anyone dare criticise the Police from within the Service the No1 priority is to ‘get them’ rather than sort the criticism. With this ethos prevalent it is easy to see why the public are so plainly disillusioned with the lot of them.
My favourite quote this time . . . from  http://sydenham.org.uk/daniel_morgan.html
This case has cast a shadow over the people responsible for policing our area. The reluctance to openly and transparently review the case only increases suspicion and doubt. With the increasing powers being given to the police it is essential they do all they can to ensure they should be trusted. This is an important issue of confidence for the people of Sydenham as well as justice for the family. (You can make that Croydon as far as I’m concerned).

But it narrowly beat this quote from the site below
he never forgave me for saying "The closest he ever came to crime was ordering toilet-rolls for the cell-block at Gateshead East Police Station"
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