Wednesday - May 13, 2009

AT LAST. AT LONG LAST. Police chief slams crappy’ justice system. Now lets see if anything improves.

At long last, someone of some standing has spoken out and spoken very publicly and done so in front of the woman who is this islands equiv. of Att. General in USA.

She and her party and the powers that be have made a total mess of a once very efficient (in the opinion of many) police dept. respected around the world.  Over the years it has become a very politically correct dept. once headed by a chief who said he was “proud to be PC”

I won’t go into a list of what many consider the misdeeds of this person. If he’s out there reading this, Lyndon is very knowledgeable on the subject.
Anyway ... here’s what happened.  btw ... nobody is holding their collective breath that things will improve til this administration is history and her with it.

Jacqui Smith publicly mocked as police chief slams ‘Hokey Cokey’ justice system
By JAMES SLACK
Last updated at 7:59 PM on 13th May 2009

Jacqui Smith was yesterday publicly mocked by police for presiding over a ‘Hokey Cokey’ justice system that ‘ let all the prisoners out’.

With the Home Secretary sitting uncomfortably next to him on stage, Police Federation chairman Paul McKeever said officers are ‘sick to death’ of seeing the same criminals again and again.

At the Federation’s annual conference in Bournemouth, he added: ‘ The Government has created the Hokey Cokey criminal justice system.

‘Yes, conference, it’s in out, in out, let all the prisoners out. In out, in out, shake the system about.’

Mr McKeever also said officers view her with ‘real suspicion and distrust’ after clashes over pay, pensions and workplace reform.

Miss Smith was later harangued from the conference floor by rank-and-file officers about the MPs’ expenses scandal and the Government’s treatment of the Gurkhas.

During his speech, Mr McKeever described as a ‘big lie’ the belief that constant modernisation and reshaping of the police will solve crime more effectively.

‘We and the people we serve are being failed by the rest of the criminal justice system,’ he said.

‘A criminal justice system that isn’t working and is seen by many people as being there to protect offenders’ interests above the interests of law-abiding members of the public.

‘Rather than addressing the real problem of ineffective sanctions, ineffective education programmes and ineffective rehabilitation, the focus is on us, the police, to detect the same people more often and bring them before the courts again and again.’

Mr McKeever said the police are left in a ‘constant state of flux’ as politicians constantly demand change.

‘In effect, in the eyes of politicians, the police are the problem that needs to be solved, when the reality is that it is the criminals who are the problem and we are the solution,’ he added.

It is the second year running Miss Smith has had a tough time at the conference.

Last year former chairman Jan Berry taunted her with a pun about her lacking ‘balls’.

Both Miss Smith and Mr McKeever paid tribute to police officers who have recently been killed in the line of duty.

The Federation chairman called for those who kill police to ‘rot’ in jail for the rest of their lives.

Mr McKeever criticised the delay in awarding Detective Constable Stephen Oake – who was stabbed to death in a terror raid in 2003 – the Queen’s Gallantry Medal.

‘We should never have to wait five years to recognise our colleagues who make the ultimate sacrifice keeping safe the communities we serve,’ he said.

Miss Smith also praised the ‘hard work’ of police during the G20 protests last month.

But delegates denounced Independent Police Complaints Commission chairman Nick Hardwick, who publicly criticised officers before an investigation into their conduct at the G20 had finished.

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