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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Thank you that’s helpful it’s such a shame how hard vast majority of Police Officers work and how reputation is so important to the role and hard won. This sort of stuff is bordering on political tampering and will have repercussions on trust. Have a good weekend.
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Brian you appear to draw equivalence btwn v. senior police officer (ret'd) engaging in political smear and v. senior politician (active) doing same. Is that your point of view? No difference, same expectations of character and expected behaviour? Hope not
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I think likely to be personal rather than political (Quick v Green). Personally, porn on computer not an issue but press story related to attitudes in Parliament to sexual harassment of women. MP said officer was lying about porn - appears he wasn’t. Poor judgement on both sides.
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Agree poor on both sides but police have powers that if misused destroy civic trust even more than politicians. This speaks to character and our faith that those with warrant cards don't misuse them. Quick shows why he was removed, but how did he rise so high?
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Also not clear that politician lied (surprisingly). In your political role, do you think likely that at time of Tory surge against Labour, in Shadow Immigration portfolio, Green wld've had time or privacy to spend hours scrolling '000's' of images?
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2 issues. Was porn found on computer? Apparently yes. Who put it there, who was using it? - there’s an investigation. My understanding: Quick said computer in Green’s office had porn on it. Green said it was a political smear. Exactly what was said & who lied? We don’t know...yet
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Yes agree again, but 'police officers retired' continue a campaign. That's not just 'poor' (what you might say about bad joke in pub), but undermines trust in police - 'long arm of revenge, not law'. More robust rejection by you of these actions wld be good.
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Please see the tweet pinned to my profile.
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