Commentary
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X8005300101 |
| Date | 01 January 1980 |
| Published date | 01 January 1980 |
| Subject Matter | Commentary |
"HE
WHO
STAYS
FAR
ENOUGH
AWAY,
SEES
•..
"
Barristers and the paid officials of the National Council for Civil
Liberties will probably never understand
that
it is not the easiest task
in the world to stand in a line, being kicked in parts of your anatomy
not intended for
that
sort of treatment whatever yoursex, or under a
hail of bricks or any available damaging type of debris.
Nor obviously does
"THE
OBSERVER",
who in reporting the
trials arising from the collection of malcontents who gathered in
Southall to subject police officers to just
that
treatment.
We quote from
that
paper:
"It
was a confusing time, said
P.e.
Charlton. A phrase that was to be heard frequently to explain
discrepancies and gaps in police evidence".
Typical of the type of reporting from the man who watches it all
from the sanctuary of the saloon
bar
of "The Crown".
WHAT
SORT
OF
POLICE
.••
?
..
?
Recently one of
our
more left wing politicians felt
that
he had
cause for complaint
about
an officer of the Hong Kong Force, who
may have been tactless but was probably truthful.
The M.P. himself is undoubtedly amember of'a union, more
than
probably one of those militant ones who when one of their members
is arrested
are'
not
pr~ared
to await the. legal processes of this
country but go on strike to declare the innocence of their brother.
But this brother was at great pains to make it clear
that
just
like
those union brothers, he too, had no faith in nor patience for
democratic orldisciplinary procedures. He wanted the policeman
sacked without a hearing!
Which takes us logically to the remarks of James Anderton, Chief
Constable of Greater Manchester recently when in warning of the
dangers if politicians won control of the police, he raised the spectre
2Police Journal January 1980
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