On 23 Jul 2008 18:03:56 GMT, "joe"
wrote:

Alang wrote:

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:32:06 +0100, MM wrote:

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:11:38 +0100, "mert1639"
wrote:


"Mike Ross" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7520598.stm

Quoted in full no apologies. First and foremost, how did this get
from a ludicrous suspicion of child trafficking, to an even more
ludicrous arrest under
the *Terrorism Act*?!

Beacuse most police are stupid. It's ludicrous that idiots with
half and O-level can arrest and detain people based on their
rather limited ability to have 'hunches'.

And there was a similar story in the Guardian on Monday:
"Did they think I had kidnapped him?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/ju...drelationships

MM

Another reason to despise the police

Not really, the higher ups actually did something which is quite
refreshing.

LIke what?
I was referring to the arrest of a family undert the terrorism act.

"Insp Helen Shaw, from Kent Police's Frontier Operations, apologised
to the family in a letter.

In another letter she wrote: "Your complaint and my subsequent
enquiries allowed me to identify that her (the officer's) manner had
been insensitive, lacking in tact and that her conduct overall lacked
the professionalism I expect.

"I wish to reassure you that your highly unsatisfactory experience was
a very isolated incident." "

It was an illegal arrest and unlawful detention FFS! They were
arrested under the terrorism act. A child was put into a stressful
situation that under any other criteria would be regarded as child
abuse.

The plods concerned should have been at the very least disciplined
with loss of salary. So should their superior officer

One of the problems, is that many of our 'top grade' detective movies
and tv series, have central characters such as Frost, who is surly and
the majority fly against the concrete evidence to use their 'gut
feeling'.
Our police are not really very bright in the main, and are influenced
by all these tv detectives.
All my opinion of course.

Too many of them are arrogant thugs. Not very bright either.