So, let's get this straight: you want a multi-tier system of policing based on previous character?
Seems the Custody Sergeant may have help similar extremist views as yourself.We don't care. He was an A'hole. Better out the way. All his life he would be nothing but trouble.
Seems the Custody Sergeant may have help similar extremist views as yourself.We don't care. He was an A'hole. Better out the way. All his life he would be nothing but trouble.
At least he'll have time to reflect on them when he visits 'the big house'.
So, let's get this straight: you want a multi-tier system of policing based on previous character?
Base it on current behaviour.
All his life he would be nothing but trouble.
Quite right...Except of course a civilian is told, "You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court".....
Which is just common sense if you think about it.
Everybody is allowed to say nothing at all in whatever circumstances you care to mention.
Obviously others will then draw their own conclusions from that refusal.
Blimey...you've changed your tune John.Had the Met, done nothing about it, they'd have been castigated for doing nothing. As it was they find themselves castigated for turning up and apprehending the poor chap.
Didn't members of the public who made 999 calls , realise this chap was suffering some sort of mental breakdown? And why didn't they phone for an ambulance instead? Or is it left to police officers to make a snap judgement about someone's state of mental health now?
Damned if they do and damned if they don't , should be the Met's motto.
The bigger problem is what went on afterwards.Had the Met, done nothing about it, they'd have been castigated for doing nothing. As it was they find themselves castigated for turning up and apprehending the poor chap.
Didn't members of the public who made 999 calls , realise this chap was suffering some sort of mental breakdown? And why didn't they phone for an ambulance instead? Or is it left to police officers to make a snap judgement about someone's state of mental health now?
Damned if they do and damned if they don't , should be the Met's motto.
Thing is LMB, I haven't changed my tune. Big difference with this case is , the chap was a danger to the general public. Tomlinson wasn't.
Simples.