Friday, January 12, 2007
SHAME ON CLEVELAND POLICE
I AM WRITING THIS IN BLOCK CAPITALS SO THAT ITS STANDS OUT.IN MARCH/APRIL TIME LAST YEAR I RECIEVED HATE MAIL THAT WAS POSTED TO ME.I SHOWED IT TO SOME FRIENDS AND THEN I GAVE IT TO THE POLICE WHEN THEY CAME TO MY HOUSE THE FOLLOWING DAY.I WAS CALLED BY SEARGENT MANDY SAVERY SHORTLY AFTER AND SHE TOLD ME THAT FINGERPRINTS HAD BEEN FOUND ON THE LETTER AND THAT SHE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THE PRINTS OF MY FRIENDS.
SHE CAME TOMY HOUSE ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN APRIL.I WAS THERE WITH MY FRIENDS AND CLLR MARY LANIGAN WHO HAD ALSO RECEIVED HATE MAIL ALONG WITH CLLR MIKE FINDLEY IN THEIR PIGEON HOLES WITHIN AN OFFICE THAT IS ACCESSED ONLY BY COUNCILLORS AND OFFICERS.IN FRONT OF THESE PEOPLE SEARGENT MANDY SAVERY TOLD ME THAT THE POLICE KNEW THAT THE MAIL WAS COMING FROM SOMEONE WITHIN THE COUNCIL! I HEARD NO MORE FROM THE POLICE.
IN AUGUST I PHONED THEM UP TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH THE LETTER? WHAT DID THE PRINTS TAKEN FROM ME AND MY FRIENDS SHOW? I WAS TOLD BY A SEARGENT SCHOFIELD THAT MANDY SAVERY HAD BEEN MOVED ON AND HE WAS IN CHARGE OF INVESTIGATION.
"WHEN ARE YOU INVESTIGATING THE COUNCIL" I ASKED,
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" HE SAID,
"MANDY SAVERY TOLD US THAT THE POLICE KNEW THE HATE MAIL HAS COME FROM THE COUNCIL" I SAID,
HE REPLIED "WELL WE HAVENT GOT THE RESOURCES OR MAN POWER TO INVESTIGATE THEM"
"STRANGE I SAID,YOU FOUND THE MAN POWER AND RESOURCES TO INVESTIGATE TWO YOUNG LADS FROM EAST CLEVELAND FOR THE TERRIBLE CRIME OF FLY POSTING BECAUSE THE COUNCIL WANTED YOU TO SO WHY NOT THIS?"
"WE CANT INVESTIGATE THE WHOLE COUNCIL" HE SAID
"YOU DONT HAVE TO" I REPLIED,MARY LANIGANS HAD ANOTHER LETTER SENT TO HER FROM SOMEONE STATING THAT THEY HAVE BEEN SENDING THIS HATE MAIL ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE IN THE RULING COALITION SO THAT NARROWS IT DOEN TO 31 PEOPLE"
"WELL,WE CANT DO THAT AND ALL I CAN TELL YOU IS THE INVESTIGATIONS ONGOING UNTIL ANYTHING ELSE HAPPENS".
I TOOK CLEVELAND POLICE TO THE INDEPENDENT COMPLAINTS COMMISSION.I RECIEVED A LETTER STATING THAT THEY HAD NOTIFIED CLEVELAND POLICE.I THEN GOT A LETTER TELLING ME THAT A POLICE MAN WOULD BE SENT TO SEE ME.I WROTE BACK AND SAID THAT WASNT SUFFICIENT AND I EXPECTED THE SAME TREATMENT AS THE COUNCIL WHO HAD AN INSPECTOR APPOINTED AT THEIR REQUEST OVER THE FLY POSTING INCIDENT.INSPECTOR KEVIN SCOTT CAME TO SEE ME IN NOVEMBER 06.AT FIRST HE TRIED TO MAKE OUT THAT THE POLICE HAD UNDERSTOOD THAT I HAD COMPLAINED TO THE IPCC ABOUT SEARGENT MANDY SAVERY SPECIFICALLY.THIS WASNT THE CASE AT ALL AND HE KNEW IT.I TOLD HIM MY COMPLAINT WAS ABOUT CLEVELAND POLICE AND THEIR LACK OF ACTION IN THIS MATTER AND THE SEEMING BIAS THAT WAS BEING SHOWN TOWARDS THE COUNCIL.
I TOLD HIM WHO I WANTED INVESTIGATING.HETOLD ME THAT THERE WERE 3 SETS OF PRINTS UNACCOUNTED FOR ON THE LETTER DESPITE MY FRIENDS GIVING THEIRS IN APRIL.I GAVE HIM SIX SUSPECTS NAMES AS HE SAID HE NEEDED SOMETHING TO GO ON AND I TOLD HIM WHY THEY WERE SUSPECTS.THE NEXT WEEK I HAD A PHONE CALL FROM MY FRIEND.HE TOLD ME THAT THE POLICE HAD TAKEN HIS PRINTS.I PHONED UP INSPECTOR SCOTT AND ASKED IF HE HAD DONE THE SAME WITH THE SUSPECTS I GAVE HIM? NO HE TOLD ME.
ON DECEMBER 22ND 06 CLLR MARY LANIGAN AND MYSELF WENT TO GUISBOROUGH POLICE STATION FOR A MEETING WITH INSPECTOR SCOTT WHO WAS JOINED BY INSPECTOR COLIN ASKEY.WE WERE TOLD POINT BLANK THAT NO INVESTIGATION INTO THE COUNCIL WOULD BE TAKING PLACE,THAT THE LETTER THAT I RECIEVED WHICH THREATENED ME,DIDNT CONSTITUTE A CRIMINAL ACT! WE WERE TOLD THAT THE LADS WHO WERE INVESTIGATED FOR 13 WEEKS AT THE REQUEST OF THE COUNCIL HAD COMMITTED THE CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF CRIMINAL DAMAGE THATS WHY THEY WERE INVESTIGATED,BUT IF THAT WAS THE CASE THEN WHY WERE THE TWO LADS NEVER PROSECUTED? I TOLD THEM THAT IT WAS SHOCKING THAT THE COUNCIL SHOULD GET THE LEVEL OF INVESTIGATION THAT THEY DID FOR SOMETHING THAT DIDNT EVEN PRODUCE A PROSECUTION,JUST BECAUSE THE FLY POSTERS ACCUSED CERTAIN PEOPLE WITHIN THE COUNCIL OF BEING CORRUPT, YET I HAVE HAD MY LIFE INTERFERED WITH ON A MASSIVE SCALE BY THIS MAIL AND OTHER THREATS INCLUDING DEATH THREATS, AND THEY DIDNT EVEN CONSIDER IT TO BE A CRIMINAL ACT!
WHY IS IT THAT WE CANNOT GET THIS CRIME OF HARRASMENT AND INTIMIDATION INVESTIGATED BYCLEVELAND POLICE WHEN THE COUNCIL HAD TWO LADS INVESTIGATED FOR 13 WEEKS FOR A CRIME THAT THEY WERENT EVEN EVENTUALLY PROSECUTED FOR? WHY IS IT THAT A COUNCILLOR WHO HAS BEEN RECORDED ON CCTV FOOTAGE IN EAST CLEVELAND WIELDING A CHAIN OVER HIS HEAD AND THREATENING PEOPLE WITH IT, HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED WITH ANY OFFENCE OR PROSECUTED BECAUSE THE POLICE SAID DOING SO WOULD NOT BE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC?
I WENT BACK TO THE IPCC AND TOLD THEM WHAT WE WERE TOLD ON THE 22ND.THEIR RESPONSE? WE CANT MAKE POLICE FORCES INVESTIGATE SOMETHING,THATS UP TO THEM.WE ARE ONLY HERE TO LOOK INTO COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE POLICE,SORRY.
ITS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE AND THE BIAS AND THE BACKSCRATCHING BETWEEN SENIOR OFFICIALS IN THIS COUNCIL AND THE POLICE IS BLATANT.
SHE CAME TOMY HOUSE ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN APRIL.I WAS THERE WITH MY FRIENDS AND CLLR MARY LANIGAN WHO HAD ALSO RECEIVED HATE MAIL ALONG WITH CLLR MIKE FINDLEY IN THEIR PIGEON HOLES WITHIN AN OFFICE THAT IS ACCESSED ONLY BY COUNCILLORS AND OFFICERS.IN FRONT OF THESE PEOPLE SEARGENT MANDY SAVERY TOLD ME THAT THE POLICE KNEW THAT THE MAIL WAS COMING FROM SOMEONE WITHIN THE COUNCIL! I HEARD NO MORE FROM THE POLICE.
IN AUGUST I PHONED THEM UP TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH THE LETTER? WHAT DID THE PRINTS TAKEN FROM ME AND MY FRIENDS SHOW? I WAS TOLD BY A SEARGENT SCHOFIELD THAT MANDY SAVERY HAD BEEN MOVED ON AND HE WAS IN CHARGE OF INVESTIGATION.
"WHEN ARE YOU INVESTIGATING THE COUNCIL" I ASKED,
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" HE SAID,
"MANDY SAVERY TOLD US THAT THE POLICE KNEW THE HATE MAIL HAS COME FROM THE COUNCIL" I SAID,
HE REPLIED "WELL WE HAVENT GOT THE RESOURCES OR MAN POWER TO INVESTIGATE THEM"
"STRANGE I SAID,YOU FOUND THE MAN POWER AND RESOURCES TO INVESTIGATE TWO YOUNG LADS FROM EAST CLEVELAND FOR THE TERRIBLE CRIME OF FLY POSTING BECAUSE THE COUNCIL WANTED YOU TO SO WHY NOT THIS?"
"WE CANT INVESTIGATE THE WHOLE COUNCIL" HE SAID
"YOU DONT HAVE TO" I REPLIED,MARY LANIGANS HAD ANOTHER LETTER SENT TO HER FROM SOMEONE STATING THAT THEY HAVE BEEN SENDING THIS HATE MAIL ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE IN THE RULING COALITION SO THAT NARROWS IT DOEN TO 31 PEOPLE"
"WELL,WE CANT DO THAT AND ALL I CAN TELL YOU IS THE INVESTIGATIONS ONGOING UNTIL ANYTHING ELSE HAPPENS".
I TOOK CLEVELAND POLICE TO THE INDEPENDENT COMPLAINTS COMMISSION.I RECIEVED A LETTER STATING THAT THEY HAD NOTIFIED CLEVELAND POLICE.I THEN GOT A LETTER TELLING ME THAT A POLICE MAN WOULD BE SENT TO SEE ME.I WROTE BACK AND SAID THAT WASNT SUFFICIENT AND I EXPECTED THE SAME TREATMENT AS THE COUNCIL WHO HAD AN INSPECTOR APPOINTED AT THEIR REQUEST OVER THE FLY POSTING INCIDENT.INSPECTOR KEVIN SCOTT CAME TO SEE ME IN NOVEMBER 06.AT FIRST HE TRIED TO MAKE OUT THAT THE POLICE HAD UNDERSTOOD THAT I HAD COMPLAINED TO THE IPCC ABOUT SEARGENT MANDY SAVERY SPECIFICALLY.THIS WASNT THE CASE AT ALL AND HE KNEW IT.I TOLD HIM MY COMPLAINT WAS ABOUT CLEVELAND POLICE AND THEIR LACK OF ACTION IN THIS MATTER AND THE SEEMING BIAS THAT WAS BEING SHOWN TOWARDS THE COUNCIL.
I TOLD HIM WHO I WANTED INVESTIGATING.HETOLD ME THAT THERE WERE 3 SETS OF PRINTS UNACCOUNTED FOR ON THE LETTER DESPITE MY FRIENDS GIVING THEIRS IN APRIL.I GAVE HIM SIX SUSPECTS NAMES AS HE SAID HE NEEDED SOMETHING TO GO ON AND I TOLD HIM WHY THEY WERE SUSPECTS.THE NEXT WEEK I HAD A PHONE CALL FROM MY FRIEND.HE TOLD ME THAT THE POLICE HAD TAKEN HIS PRINTS.I PHONED UP INSPECTOR SCOTT AND ASKED IF HE HAD DONE THE SAME WITH THE SUSPECTS I GAVE HIM? NO HE TOLD ME.
ON DECEMBER 22ND 06 CLLR MARY LANIGAN AND MYSELF WENT TO GUISBOROUGH POLICE STATION FOR A MEETING WITH INSPECTOR SCOTT WHO WAS JOINED BY INSPECTOR COLIN ASKEY.WE WERE TOLD POINT BLANK THAT NO INVESTIGATION INTO THE COUNCIL WOULD BE TAKING PLACE,THAT THE LETTER THAT I RECIEVED WHICH THREATENED ME,DIDNT CONSTITUTE A CRIMINAL ACT! WE WERE TOLD THAT THE LADS WHO WERE INVESTIGATED FOR 13 WEEKS AT THE REQUEST OF THE COUNCIL HAD COMMITTED THE CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF CRIMINAL DAMAGE THATS WHY THEY WERE INVESTIGATED,BUT IF THAT WAS THE CASE THEN WHY WERE THE TWO LADS NEVER PROSECUTED? I TOLD THEM THAT IT WAS SHOCKING THAT THE COUNCIL SHOULD GET THE LEVEL OF INVESTIGATION THAT THEY DID FOR SOMETHING THAT DIDNT EVEN PRODUCE A PROSECUTION,JUST BECAUSE THE FLY POSTERS ACCUSED CERTAIN PEOPLE WITHIN THE COUNCIL OF BEING CORRUPT, YET I HAVE HAD MY LIFE INTERFERED WITH ON A MASSIVE SCALE BY THIS MAIL AND OTHER THREATS INCLUDING DEATH THREATS, AND THEY DIDNT EVEN CONSIDER IT TO BE A CRIMINAL ACT!
WHY IS IT THAT WE CANNOT GET THIS CRIME OF HARRASMENT AND INTIMIDATION INVESTIGATED BYCLEVELAND POLICE WHEN THE COUNCIL HAD TWO LADS INVESTIGATED FOR 13 WEEKS FOR A CRIME THAT THEY WERENT EVEN EVENTUALLY PROSECUTED FOR? WHY IS IT THAT A COUNCILLOR WHO HAS BEEN RECORDED ON CCTV FOOTAGE IN EAST CLEVELAND WIELDING A CHAIN OVER HIS HEAD AND THREATENING PEOPLE WITH IT, HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED WITH ANY OFFENCE OR PROSECUTED BECAUSE THE POLICE SAID DOING SO WOULD NOT BE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC?
I WENT BACK TO THE IPCC AND TOLD THEM WHAT WE WERE TOLD ON THE 22ND.THEIR RESPONSE? WE CANT MAKE POLICE FORCES INVESTIGATE SOMETHING,THATS UP TO THEM.WE ARE ONLY HERE TO LOOK INTO COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE POLICE,SORRY.
ITS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE AND THE BIAS AND THE BACKSCRATCHING BETWEEN SENIOR OFFICIALS IN THIS COUNCIL AND THE POLICE IS BLATANT.
// posted by Chris McGlade @ 6:12 AM 
