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I’ve decided to share my experience of being spiked by three male police officers. It’s something I have held inside for a long time, it’s something I have doubted and questioned myself about, it’s something I have no evidence of. But I know it happened. I lived it .. 1of
One of the reasons I’ve held back all this time is the fear of not being believed. I get a lot of trolling from #policetwitter and I know they’ll accuse me of making this up ‘for attention’ But I don’t care anymore, people need to know the truth about what it is like to be… 2of
A female cop, to be betrayed by the people who should keep you safest. I was attending a course at Hendon. It was a week’s course and was with a group of officers from across the @metpoliceuk. At the end of the course a couple of them suggested drinks .. 3of
There's a #policetwitter mindset that believes every untruth about or challenge to policing must be 'robustly' confronted. That can translate into expressions of the worst values in policing, whether present today or echoing from the past, esp from behind a cloak of anonymity.
My feeling is that police leaders could do much more to highlight how *counterproductive* this can be.
"You're not helping. In fact you are being unhelpful. Please stop."
"You're not helping. In fact you are being unhelpful. Please stop."
I'd add, however, that police leaders have been conspicuously absent from many public debates about policing, leaving a vacuum.
(I think back to the introduction of spit hoods in London, for eg. It was left to rank and file plus others to explain the issues and necessity.)
(I think back to the introduction of spit hoods in London, for eg. It was left to rank and file plus others to explain the issues and necessity.)
