HMIC PEEL Inspection: My Response

Emailed to: haveyoursay@hmic.gsi.gov.uk (edited)

I don't do forms and I have not answered specifics but would like to comment on the following and I do hope someone takes the time to read it.

I am all for any move towards transparency.  I have counselled police officers and staff of all levels, so I know something of what goes on.
 
Mostly I am satisfied with my local police officers, other than one complaint I made in 2009 because a female officer stopped me on my way to work.  Accused me of using my mobile phone whilst driving - said I had been spotted on camera, insisted I hand her my phone. She was showing off for the benefit of her a male trainee.  I knew her accusation was false and could prove it, which I did.

On the other side of the coin there are many positives, like the male officer who insisted on coming out in the early hours as I had reported a man knocking on my window and making threatening remarks; he was no doubt drunk and lost but still worrying when you live alone.  A female officer last year was also sympathetic as well as professional.  We get a significant amount of vandalism in this area, pubs' chucking out times mostly, and my window got broken during a street fight. This officer said that one of her main concerns was to know how I felt the local police could support me.  She also visited me twice more in the following weeks.


With regard to changes; I have three main points:

1) The ridiculous and virtually criminal procedure of allowing corrupt coppers to resign so that they do not have to face charges, must stop.
2) My personal experience of the IPCC is that they are not independent, so whether more power or resources would have any impact is debatable.
3) Decent, professional police officers need incentives. I am not saying the old days were better or using 'rose coloured specs' but the 'bobby on the beat' of my childhood, was happy to remain in that post, it was his 'calling' but he could have done with more in his pay packet; this fact still remains, they do not all want promotion, other than for the wage increase.

That said, my prime purpose for writing. Jeremy Bamber, an innocent man, has been in prison for nearly 29 years, and until any prosecutors and police officers who withheld information which would have helped his defence, plus any who falsified documents, altered statements and/or blatantly lied, are brought to justice, I feel nothing in our justice system can or will change for the better. 


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Jeremy Bamber: An Overview

By M, Wall. Last updated 11.02.13   If you’ve only recently come to know Jeremy’s name, you may be looking for more information on who he is and why the Campaign is so important.   Jeremy Bamber, from Tollesunt D’arcy, Essex, England, led an ordinary farming life, and benefited from the warmth of a loving family. His mother, June was active in the local church whilst his father, Nevill, was a local Magistrate. Jeremy’s sister, Sheila, who was four years his senior, became a fashion model before marrying and having children. Sheila, June and Jeremy   Sadly this life was taken from Jeremy and completely destroyed when, in August 1985, Sheila – who had developed schizophrenia in adult life – took the lives of both her parents and her own two young children in a psychotic episode before killing herself. Police and a pathologist ruled the case of four murders and one suicide as 24 year old Jeremy Bamber was left to mourn the loss of his entire family. White House Farm, Tolleshunt D'arcy, Essex   In what has become one of the gravest miscarriages of justice in the history of British law, however, it was Jeremy himself who, just over a year later, would be jailed for carrying out all five murders. Inexplicably, Jeremy was convicted despite the fact that there has, to this day, never been any forensic evidence to link him to such crimes; while the sheer load of documents and evidence supporting his innocence continues to swell some 27 years later. Jeremy’s case is currently being re-submitted to the troubled and underfunded Criminal Cases Review Commission with further supporting evidence. Jeremy is one of only 42 prisoners currently serving a whole life tariff, never to be released.   The official site of the Jeremy Bamber, is run by an organization set up to bring Jeremy to freedom, it collates and explains all of the evidence in great detail. In exploring the site, and the other official online resources of Jeremy and the case, you will be able to see for yourself how an innocent man continues to serve time for crimes he did not commit.   As you read through the evidence you will be stunned by the facts of the case that you didn’t know and further surprised that material which has been publicized is factually inaccurate. All of the material on the site is drawn from case documents and claims are fully supported by evidence. The site is in the process of being updated to include the exact references inserted via footnotes so check back regularly to find out more. Thanks for supporting Jeremy       Attrib:http://www.jeremy-bamber.co.uk/who-is-jeremy

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