Thread 1/8- Insp.Warhurst @PoliceScotland blasted in Employment Tribunal said female firearms officers shld be accompanied on duty by males & shared topless photos on WhatsApp Grp, is now a Scottish Police Federation rep providing help 2female colleagues🙈 bbc.com/news/uk-scotla…
2/8- In his 2018 note, Insp Warhurst, warned against sending 2 women on a callout due to “obvious differences in physical capacity…For operational reasons I don’t want to see 2 female officers deployed together when there are sufficient male staff on duty”
3/8 -Insp said “This is based on my experience in firearms & routine policing environment, other than the obvious differences in physical capacity,it makes more sense from a search, balance of testosterone perspective.If you want 2discuss my door is open.”assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/615c5cc7…
4/8 In 2020 the Insp.was made Scottish Police Federation Rep-it’s head Calum Steele said: “Mr Warhurst’s candidature & election was a matter for his colleagues & peers.The outstanding tribunal claims of a retired police officer has no bearing on this” 🙈 google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail…
5/8- The retired officer Rhona Malone was not supported by the Federation “the impact of the ordeal forced her to seek early retirement on ill-health grounds. Her lawyer said she had endured behaviour “designed to get her to take flight from the firearms unit”
6/8- The hearing was also told one cop in the unit had referred to a colleague's pregnant partner as "a f****** fat bitch". Another was said to have stated "you are going to end up f****** that" when referring to a female officer.
7/8- Its ruling said: "The tribunal accepted in evidence the examples of the "absolute boys club" or "horrific" culture given by the claimant's witnesses." Rhona Malone was vindicated yesterday after fighting years to prove what happened to her- what next @PoliceScotland ?
8/8- A former Dep. Chief constable ‘backed’ the Inspector who prompted an employment tribunal. Tom Wood said Inspector Keith Warhurst had “had a good point” when he said that women should not be deployed together when enough men were on duty”🙈 thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-dep…
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1/14 -a thread - Three years ago today, the body of a 16-year-old child was found hanging in his cell at Polmont, some 72 hours after he arrived there on remand. His name was #WilliamLindsay 💔
2/14- On the 4 Oct 2018 William was sent to prison by our courts because our criminal justice system could not find a children’s secure unit place & the desperate concerns of his social workers went ignored.
3/14William was in & out of care since the age of 3, he had multiple placements, and resided in secure accommodation, self-harming since the age of 8, considered a high risk of suicide from the age of 13 & had on several occasions attempted to take his own life.
Thread 1/11 Parts of unprecedented sentencing statement by Judge Beckett on @policescotland over M9 deaths of #LamaraBell#JohnYuill makes shocking reading & as the present Chief Constable pled guilty for1st time on behalf of service to corporate criminal liability in Scotland
2/11 “At the High Court in Edinburgh today, Lord Beckett fined the Office of the Chief Constable of @policescotland £100,000 following a guilty plea to a breach of the health and safety at work legislation”
3/11 “This case arises from terrible events in which two relatively young people died, one of them after days of severe physical suffering when she must have been in an almost unimaginable state of distress and anxiety”
Thread 1/9 Comes as no surprise that leadership of Scottish Police Federation produce research for their own ‘quasi’ magazine to demand GUNS-Thankfully their out of touch leadership, who haven’t been beat cops for years, will never get to make that decision #ShekuBayoh
2/9 -Headline is inaccurate- 40% of police officers were not victims of assault last year- that statistic applies to 40% of 1698 officers their Federation surveyed, not 17,283 officers deployed by @policescotland making it just 3% not 40% of officers
3/9 The headline is disingenuous, more than half of Scots Cops do not want guns, it is the officers the Federation surveyed which means it’s actually only 899 officers making it just 5% of 17,283 police officers in Scotland 🙈
1/17 statement - ‘This morning our legal team appeared at court on @ClaraPonsati’s behalf & it was agreed that she should be discharged as a requested person & these extradition court proceedings are now finally at an end in Scotland’🎗
2/17 On each & every occasion, that @ClaraPonsati & the Catalan exiles have taken on the might of the Spanish state they have won, whilst Spain has failed to crush the spirit of the Catalan People
3/17 In March 2018 @ClaraPonsati first appeared before the Scottish courts following Spain issuing a European Arrest Warrant, relating to her involvement in the peaceful independence referendum of 2017.
1/8 thread 👇🏽How convenient- head of Scottish Police Federation on #GeorgeFloyd but next week he’s in court to stop misconduct action after making a joke of #ShekuBayoh death in police custody. SPF are accused by Sheku’s family of smearing a dead man & trying to silence them
2/8 #LineOfDuty? Scottish Police Federation spent thousands defending itself on misconduct allegation over #ShekuBayoh as well as multiple officers in Whatsapp group exposed over alleged racism & anti-semitism google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail…
3/8 #ShekuBayoh death in police custody ‘Somebody has lost their life, so anybody who attempts to dehumanise, smear or downplay the seriousness of the matter needs to take a very long hard look at themselves & think twice about what they are doing’ dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…
#GeorgeFloydVerdict is not the end. No1 should be above the law, yet since 1969 not 1 police officer in the UK has been convicted of killing a person in custody, this verdict should be the beginning -Never forget #ShekuBayoh & so many more💔 🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸
The UK is not innocent, there have been 1,741 deaths in police custody or otherwise following contact with the police since 1990. No police officer has ever been convicted in connection to those deaths. #GeorgeFloyd
#GeorgeFloyd was not just about racial injustice in the 🇺🇸 a black person in the UK is twice as likely to die in police custody than any other ethnicity. So what now?