Scotland Yard faced calls for an “ethical audit” of all officers in its controversial riot squad tonight after figures revealed that they had received more than 5,000 complaint allegations, mostly for “oppressive behaviour”. Details of all allegations lodged against the Metropolitan police territorial support group (TSG) over the last four years reveal that only nine – less than 0.18% – were “substantiated” after an investigation by the force’s complaints department. (ht2 Harpymarx)
The TSG (who killed Ian Tomlinson) were what the SPG became (the group who murdered Blair Peach) and clearly they have absolute support from the Met who work to keep them utterly above the law, this sketch is 30 years old yet again I post it because…nothing has changed
And please read on to see how the Met protected serial torturer and racist (and former Royal Marine, attempt to be surprised) Mark Jones even when another officer acted as whistleblower (noticeably the jury chose to believe Jones rather than Pc Amechi Onwugbonu) to the assault on several teenagers, one of whom Jones called an ‘Arab cunt‘.
8 November, 2009 at 1:07 am
(without opening the youtube)
“Savage, you’re a bigot”
“Thank you, sir!”
(so how close was i to verbatim, RB?)
8 November, 2009 at 1:14 am
Ah, you’re there in spirit but verbatim is a slippery thing!
8 November, 2009 at 3:00 am
“Anyway, I think Special Patrol Group is a stupid name for a hamster.”
9 November, 2009 at 1:20 am
10 November, 2009 at 8:26 pm
ahhhh…those were the days….when television WAS television mah lad..ay.
And then they moved ever onwards and upwards and reached their peak: Vodka margarine.
8 November, 2009 at 12:43 pm
And the equivalent on the tv 30 years later is what?
8 November, 2009 at 4:55 pm
24.
8 November, 2009 at 9:15 pm
That’s about right!
9 November, 2009 at 1:22 am
I’m not sure there is in terms of UK satire at the moment other than chance remarks from Mark Steel or Jeremy Hardy on panel shows.
9 November, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I’ve been searching and come up with this as the 2009 equivalent.
We’re all doomed!
10 November, 2009 at 2:53 am
Aw, my link didn’t work! This should’ve been a link to http://www.webhamster.com/
10 November, 2009 at 1:30 am
I get fed up of people’s attack on the police. Wrapped up on the bad deeds of certain special activities branches I wonder whether these very middle class do gooders actually ever need the services of the police. Apart from my baseball bat the police are the only ones that will protect my home and family. Get lost you charlatans.
10 November, 2009 at 2:52 am
Are you calling me middle class? How very dare you!
10 November, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Except when they don’t, of course. Or you get caught in “the wrong place at the wrong time” or the cops scapegoat you for some stupid thing.
My grandfather was a cop (and still is) so I know the type. The clip shows a good cop-bad cop scenario and as the commanding officer says, these incidents put the police in a bad light. Ignoring them doesn’t make it any better.
11 November, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Programmes such as Not The Nine O’clock News merely began the steady decline of this great nation into a mire of politically correct comedians…and Ben Elton.
12 November, 2009 at 12:14 am
Really? How so?