I am astonished that a former police officer is allowed to retain his notes of an investigation after leaving the force, then wave them around in interviews ten years later and divulge private details of an individual when no law was broken
@DamianGreen @metpoliceukhttps://twitter.com/tonydavis56/status/936536672157749248 …
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Peculiar though that it was only this case he kept notebook from. I've known lots of cops over the years and if they do keep their notes, it tends to be for lots of cases, not just one. Anyway, the retired officer seems to be under investigation himself now.
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Agreed Claire. It’s the fact of ten years passing that’s odious and an officer retaining info for personal gain that stinks. If the original investigation was happy not an illegal act why on earth keep the “legal” data/info that’s inexcusable and reflects very badly on the force
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How do people with no experience of the culture or practice of police know what the motivation of the retired detective was or is? Evidence is routinely retained in case of civil action even if there is no prosecution. Not justifying anyone’s actions but we are not mind readers.
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Sorry Brian but that is nonsense! Are you suggesting it would be OK for a Solicitor or an Accountant to keep client data files after they retired and then to publish that data 10 years later? This is a clear breach of trust and a data protection breach! Indefensible!
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My understanding: The officer didn’t keep data files. The Met Police kept a copy of the hard drive. The officer kept his own notes of what he saw. Data Protection Act only applies to searchable personal data. Whether a breach of Official Secrets Act for a Court to decide.
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My understanding: The Data Protection Act 1998 (c 29) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament designed to protect personal data stored on computers or in an organised paper filing system. Do you not think a police notebook could be described as an organised paper filing system?
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Of course it isn’t. To use your own phrase “this is nonesense.”
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I suggest we both wait and see how things play out!
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Saw what coming?
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Sometimes in your police service you think “this may come back to bite me, I’d better make a note”
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Arguably, some of us do keep notes thinking ‘this may come handy in the future’. Certainly in the context of work. That said, I’m still not convinced most of us would go on to wave it about in front of a camera. PS I’m not in the Police nor politics so no skin in this game...
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V v strange indeed and is so wrong. Also implications with trust with this Officer, I wouldn’t tell him anything.
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Saw what coming? As far as I can make out the police have acted unlawfully throughout. Weak justification
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It’s an explanation, not a justification. I am not trying to justify anything or anyone. I’m trying to analyse & explain. I’m trying to get people to draw conclusions that are justified by facts not inferences.
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Might have guessed you would be supporting a bent copper ,,,birds of a feather# Stinks
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Sorry you can’t read. Blocked
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Brian it's fair enough if this ex officer had been the victim of a campaign by Damian green and co to produce these notes in his defence but he hasn't he's produced them to attack Damian green in an unrelated investigation to the media,not to the authority investigating DG
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Damien Green publicly attacked the integrity@of the officers conducting the inquiry albeit in retaliation to Bob Quick.
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That was at the time wasn't it.
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