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ER Editor: Wonders will never cease. And if you don’t think we’re watching a movie unfold before our very eyes, here’s Sir Mark Rowley from 13 months ago, apparently unaware of the law in full public view —
Met Police Chief Acts Like He Doesn’t Know the Law on Camera
From that article —
Did Met Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley just break the law in grabbing and dropping a journalist’s microphone as he asked a pretty pertinent question about two tier policing? pic.twitter.com/2VkFpRvUEb
— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) August 5, 2024
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Change Law so We Can Stop Policing Tweets, Demands Met Chief
The changes could also significantly reduce the requirement for police to record and attend non-crime hate incidents, which have included cases such as a nine year-old calling a primary school classmate a “retard”. (ER: Pretty standard fare among young kids, we recall.)
Sir Mark’s proposals to protect free speech are being drawn up with other senior officers and follow the row last week over the arrest at Heathrow of comedy writer Graham Linehan, after a complaint about his tweet threatening to kick a trans-identified male “in the balls” if they were in a female-only space. …
A source close to Sir Mark said: “Regulations that were understandably intended to improve policing and laws that were intended to protect the vulnerable, are now tying officers’ hands, removing appropriate professional discretion – which some call common sense – and risk losing public confidence.
“The Met is working with wider policing to rapidly develop solid proposals for where reform is possible – either in policy and guidance or the law – which could be ready within weeks.” …
A senior police source said that officers were being dragged into taking action on “culture war issues” because they were obliged by the law to record and investigate such complaints. The source argued that the threshold needed to be raised either in law or in guidance or both.
They said: “When it is low level and much more ambiguous, there should be more latitude for officers to make sensible decisions as to whether it carries a real-world threat and remove the legal requirement on them to record and investigate it as a crime.”
More than 13,200 non-crime hate incidents were recorded by police in the 12 months to June 2024, a similar number to the previous year, despite new guidelines requiring police to investigate only “when it is absolutely necessary and proportionate and not simply because someone is offended.”
Worth reading in full.
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Featured image source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/sir-mark-rowley-profile-met-142400865.html
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