(This isn’t satire – it’s G4S!)
So Warwickshire Police are going to be using detectives employed by private security company G4S to investigate serious crimes like murder, including interviewing suspects and witnesses and conducting house to house enquiries.
Don’t know about you – and I don’t know the legal implications of this – but if someone employed by G4S wanted to interview me as a witness during a police investigation I would refuse to cooperate and only agree to be questioned by a bona fide police officer.
I’d be prepared to be charged with hindering a police investigation. My defence would be that I wasn’t hindering a police investigation because it wasn’t actually a police investigation at all – it was one being conducted by a private firm.
If as I suspect, I wouldn’t be the only one to think like this, how is that going to affect criminal investigations in the long run?
A bunch of cowboys like G4S investigating serious crimes? When are the British public going to wake up to this madness?
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Will G4S have the same pay grades as the police or will they all be nothing more than mere defective constables?
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Excellent piece on the utter insanity of police privatization. G4S can’t organise a piss-up in a brewery and yet they are being more and more police contracts. It’s crazy.
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One of those times when, after Tom Lehrer, we can say satire is dead?
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Just be grateful only the Prison Service and now the police are being privatised.
If the present kakistocracy thought they could get away with it, they’d privatise the Army.
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Only wish this was satire.
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Quem Deus perdere vult, dementat prius.
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They’ve certainly got me mad.
What’s the Latin for hopping?
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How true.
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They already are:
http://www.labour.org.uk/privatising-recruitment-in-the-army,2012-02-15
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This is a stance I believe we all ought to take
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To answer your question, yes you could be in trouble for not cooperating.
Under the Police Reform Act, these detectives can be designated as ‘Investigating Officers’, with the authority to give Special Warnings in interview. This means that inferences can be drawn by inadequate or refusal to answer questions.
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Interesting. Looks like the unstoppable private force is about to meet quite a few unmovable objects.
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Politicians and chief constables seem to have forgotten that unlike the rest of Europe we are policed by consent. In other words we, the public, allow the police to police. Something that we have done since their formation by Robert Peel.
Charles Reith, a police historian, set out nine principles of good policing – they can be viewed here: http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/policeNine.php
You will note the most apt in this case:
“2) To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect..”
Some private bunch of amateurs almost certainly does not meet the approval of the public and therefore cannot be said to have their consent. They would be little more than busybody citizens and I for one would neither co-operate with them nor allow them to attempt to arrest me.
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