Revealed: the scale of sexual abuse by UK police officers

[Green Leopard]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/ju...e-power-police

Police officers have been convicted or disciplined for a range of offences from rape and sexual assault to misconduct in public office relating to inappropriate sexual behaviour with vulnerable women they have met on duty. Others are awaiting trial for alleged offences, though many are never charged with a criminal offence and are dealt with via internal disciplinary procedures.

In the past four years, there were 56 cases involving police officers and a handful of community support officers who either were found to have abused their position to rape, sexually assault or harass women and young people or were investigated over such allegations.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) are so concerned they are carrying out a rare joint inquiry into the scale of the problem, which will be published in September, the Guardian can reveal.

Many of the cases documented involve police officers accessing the police national computer to gain access to the details of vulnerable women and young people in order to bombard them with texts and phone calls and initiate sexual contact.

It is one of the worst crimes that can be committed and when committed by an officer, becomes one of the greatest abuses of power.

Anyone smell the stench of hypocrisy from the establishment. It is unbelievable that this has been conveniently ignored by the mainstream media. Some real sickos getting away with heinous crimes.

Not to sound like immature hack....but:

Yeah Jack Straw talk nah!

[pakistanalltheway]

had this been about Pakistanis this would have reached 10 pages by now

[James]

Always difficult to stomach news like this. Disgusting.

But the true 'scale of sexual abuse by UK police officers' is not mentioned in the article, which is a typical Guardian tactic in their anti-establishment crusade, so I will make the effort to do so instead: 56 cases in four years out of 140,000 officers is the smallest of small minorities (0.04%). Threatening and criminal sexual behaviour in most spheres and walks of life around the world is probably observed at higher than that level. I credit the Guardian for reporting it at all, though; as the OP highlights nobody else has done so.

837 corruption cases overall is even more of a worry of course. What's true, as observed by Mark Daly in 'The Secret Policeman', is that the educational and medical requirements to enter the police force are hardly strict nowadays and this is why we get the very occasional racist, rapist and deviant worming his way in.

Thus, these few primitive and moronic officers should be rooted out and convicted according to the legal system as soon as possible, and greater care should be taken with regards to who can and cannot become a policeman in future.

[chacha kashmiri]

Mark kennedy's an interesting story