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Originally Posted by Michael1954
An inquiry has nothing to do with there being a Tory Government in power. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) received a referral from South Yorkshire Police in 2012 containing allegations of assault, perjury, perverting the court of justice and misconduct in a public office. This referral was made following a BBC documentary, which claimed officers may have colluded in writing court statements, using excessive force, and giving false evidence in court. The IPCC spent three years before coming to the decision the allegations could not be pursued because of the passage of time. According to a BBC report, South Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Billings described the decision as a missed opportunity that did "disservice" to former miners, police and the IPCC.
This is what this thread is all about, as stated by the thread starter. Arguments about Labour Governments or Tory Governments are irrelevant. The discussion arose because of the IPCC's decision not to pursue this.
Does that answer your question about why the sudden fervour after thirty years?
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Fair enough, we'll leave the question of a Government inquiry by any party, you say that's not the question so you must be happy without one.
The IPCC , as you say, have
had a three year inquiry and reached their conclusions so that's the end of that.
PCC Alan Billings- the successful Labour candidate for PCC and a noted anti- Thatcherite in his time( see Faith in the City, called 'pure Marxist theology' by a Cabinet Minister). Politics does keep coming up, doesn't it?
So one inquiry you don't require and one three year inquiry you've had.
That's it, isn't it?
Don't say 'No', this thread is getting boring.
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Originally Posted by cashman
Notice Gordon has declined to answer yer original question, musta been too difficult.?  Plus he says its never been mentioned on here before, i say bull it has, on some thread years ago. |
I'm sorry, cashman, as far as I can see I have.
If you say this subject has been raised before I accept that. It must have been before I joined and life's too short to check back to 2004.
One thing we
can all agree on is that we'll
never agree so rather than us go on forever I'll call it a day on this thread.
As I said, life's too short.