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The Nine Principles of Policing that Hampshire Police have forgotten!

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For the attention of the Chief Constable of Hampshire & Others:
On March 5, nine policemen arrived unannounced at the front door of Mr Ashley Mote (as I've no doubt you are aware) armed with a warrant to search his home. All this so it seems based on an accusation from somewhere within the EU that Mr Mote used public funds to investigate them!  

The police team involved were from the Hampshire Major Investigation Team, though apparently they called themselves the Hampshire Economic Crime Investigation Team in this instance.

This heavy handed abuse of an individual (Mr Mote reports that the Officers(?) even took every penny of cash the could find claiming that it could be the proceeds of 'money laundering' - perhaps they needed to stop for coffee on the way back??) by your Officers is reminiscent of the bully boy thugs of the Geheime Staatspolizei (that's the Gestapo btw) and East German Staatssicherheit (that's the Stazi to you).

How tragic to find that Hampshire Constabulary are so ready to follow in those infamous footsteps!

Maybe you should all revisit 'Reith's', The Nine Principles of Policing:

1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.

2. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

3. To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.

4. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.

5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion; but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour; and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.

6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.

7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

8. To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.

9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

Andy E.

The Gestapo in the '40's; The Stazi in the 50's/60's; and Quisling enforcers of the EU in 2013

All worked/work to stifle freedom - some things never change!

Make no mistake EUROPOL is already here!