UK/Police

UK/Police   (Police)
These virtue signalling police cars cost large amounts of money for an institution that insists on making cuts elsewhere.
Parent organization	UK
Subpage	•UK/Police/Corruption
Police in Great Britain.

The Police of the United Kingdom kill far less people that the US Police.

In 2021, due to the COVID-19/Lockdown/UK, public confidence in the police fell dramatically.

Corruption

Full article: UK/Police/Corruption

A 2011 report by Transparency International concluded that although corruption is not endemic, police corruption in UK is a much greater problem than recognised and that there was an inadequate response to its growing threat.

Murder by the UK police is widely believed to be extremely rare and deaths in police custody are much lower than in the USA. However, the revelations of Lana Vandenberghe (and her subsequent sacking) surrounding the death of Jean Charles de Menezes indicate that the "Independent Police Complaints Commission" was not in fact independent of influence by the UK establishment.

UK police abandoned investigations into over 1,000 crimes daily in 2020 with one in seven probes dumped within 24 hours; including rape, murder and arson.

'Banksy', Flying Copper (2004)

Policy Priorities

in 2015, Sara Thornton, the head of the new National Police Chiefs' Council stated that while burglary was an important crime for police, police man not visit burglaries in future. Pointing to financial cuts, she added "think of the threat to our children from sexual offences, from sexual abuse, from online abuse, that's what we've got to prioritise."

Austerity

Since 2010, half of Britain's police stations have been closed and sold off. 40% of police stations are closed to the public.

Activities

Mass Surveillance

UK police have collected more than 19 million mugshot photos of suspects (i.e. presumed innocent people), a practice which was deemed unlawful in 2012. Lord Justice Richards said: “It should be clear in the circumstances that a ‘reasonable further period’ for revising the policy is to be measured in months, not years.” However, in 2017 their retention was retroactively legalised, by a UK Home Office review which gave people the responsibility to request the police delete them - a request that the UK police may deny if they claim the images are needed "for a policing purpose".

Intolerance of criticism

In 2018, Breitbart News reported that "Britain’s police have stumbled into another public relations disaster after threatening to track down and prosecute Facebook users for ridiculing them."

Drones

In 2017, the first UK police force announced plans for a "24-hour police drone unit".

 

Events carried out

Event	Description
Operation Nicole	A tabletop exercise "based on a realistic counter terrorism incident... specifically developed for Muslim communities".
Project Rich Picture

 

Examples

Page name	Description
City of London/Police
Diplomatic Protection Group
Greater Manchester Police
Merseyside Police	UK police force in Merseyside
Metropolitan Police
West Midlands Police
West Yorkshire Police

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote
"Extremism"	“Despite widespread evidence to the contrary, including a PREVENT training presentation from the police describing anti-fracking protesters as extremists, the police argued in court that anti-fracking protesters were not viewed in this way.”

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Violent Vocabulary of Policing	webpage	13 December 2010	Dibyesh Anand
Document:Three Shattered Myths	open letter	26 January 2005	Babar Ahmad	Written after 12 months in HM Prison Woodhill, pending legal challenges to a US extradition application. In spite of multiple rulings that there was "insufficient evidence" to charge Ahmad with any criminal offence under UK law, he was held for 8 years before being extradited to USA on October 6, 2012.

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