Yes, it is *possible*, but highly unlikely. As any reader of Mr Turley’s blog will attest, there is no shortage of thuggish, responsibility-avoiding warranted officers out there. So why bring in non-warranted thugs, put them in uniform, and *pretend* that they were police? And on top of that, put them in uniforms bearing no shoulder numbers, thereby making them stand out?

Furthermore, various officers caught in one instance committing assaults etc whilst wearing no shoulder number or concealing a shoulder number have been subsequently identified from photographs of them in more pacific times, wearing their shoulder number. The instance of the ‘backhanding sergeant’ at the G20 protests in London in April is a case in point; through diligent research FITwatch was able to identify him as a former Forward Intelligence Team officer, AB42 (though by the time of the G20 incident he had moved into the Territorial Support Group).

There is no criminal offence committed if a police officer does not wear or refuses to divulge their shoulder number, though officers up to the rank of sergeant (IIRC) are expected to wear the number wherever practicable, and to give out the number when asked for it; Inspectors and above are expected to give their name and station. Failure to do this would be considered a disciplinary offence unless there were practical reasons for not doing so.

What is the name of the offence committed by a uniformed police officer who is not displaying a number?

What is the name of the offence committed by a uniformed police officer who refuses to divulge his number and name?

What is the name of the offence committed by a person who wears a police uniform, but has no number in view?

Are there secret laws on the statute books that we are not allowed to know about (for example, because they are hidden by the Official Secrets Act)?

Suing these thugs and keeping them in court for the duration of their despicable jackboot-licking lives is well deserved, but won’t happen. Britain is a dumbed down police state now, which should make Rupert Murdoch and weapons manufacturers very happy. Mission accomplished.

I am British and went back for the first time in 20 years last year. My country is gone, man, gone. I was partially strip searched 6 times during my many internal flights and was coerced into having my mugshot taken at the airport. “Why would you want to refuse?” said the security officer, breathing heavily fingering his Taser…

“It’s no so much under the radar anymore, just read some of Professor Turley’s cited instances.”

I’ve seen most of Professor Turley’s postings — I follow this blog and am very grateful for it. Though more of these stories are being reported, the things to which I’m referring are still very much under the radar. What’s going on is shameful, but I still believe that “good triumphs…”, perhaps naively.

No police officer came forward to make a statement about the assault on Mr Tomlinson (or the -at least – two prior ‘contacts’ between him and police officers earlier that day) until after the ‘American tourist’ video of the assault was published by The Guardian newspaper. Until the video was made public, the police line was that Mr Tomlinson died of a heart attack, and that officers trying to treat him came under ‘a hail of missiles’ (claims which are demonstrably untrue).

Given that the rationale behind FIT policing is to identify political activists, one wonders about the aptitude of officers so employed if (i) they cannot distinguish between bystanders and political activists, and (ii) they do not think it important to come forward with important evidence of the final moments of a man who died immediately following an assault by a police officer.

Yes, sir. That’s some unadulterated, 100% pure truth there.

“England swings like a pendulum do
Bobbies on bicycles two by two
Westminster Abbey the sound of Big Ben
The rosy red cheeks of the little children”

I guess those benign bobbies and swinging England have changed since the 1960′s. The saddest part of all is most of this can be laid at the feet of a Labour Government. Left Wing Right Wing distinctions are irrelevant to Civil Rights or Freedom.

Of course we’d never ever let this happen in America. We are far to advanced to allow this right………..