Cathy Larkman 💚🤍 💜🦢🏃‍♀️ Profile picture
Adult Human Female, Mother, Feminist, football, running. National policing lead and Wales coordinator for WRN. Author of State Sanctioned Sexual Assault.
Nov 27, 2024 11 tweets 2 min read
POLICE SEARCHES
Lots of discussion on here. Lots of confusion between a strip search and an intimate search.
Surely a strip search is an intimate search though?

Well, no. Let me explain simply why in police and PACE terms.

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1/10 Image First - a ‘basic’ search can be carried out by a police officer on anyone REGARDLESS of their sex.
In public or private.
Removal of no more than outer clothing (jacket, gloves).

PACE = Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984 by the way.
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Oct 9, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read
The @CollegeofPolice currently appear to be advising the nation’s police officers that wives who withhold access to make up and nail varnish, or who object to their husband’s new ‘identity’ are committing domestic abuse.

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college.police.uk/app/major-inve…Image The College are the body responsible for professional police practice, but have uncritically accepted the contentious notion that everyone has a ‘gender identity’.

A message the nation’s police officers will be receiving.

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Mar 17, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read
OK deep breath.
The suggestion being made in this clip is that GC groups are monitored by the police for ‘radicalisation’. Basically, that women concerned about their rights are extremists.
This is applauded by those present at an @EssexPFCC event.
This matters.
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1/6 I know nothing about ‘Claire’ but he announces he is vice chair of the force’s (presumably @EssexPoliceUK) Independent Advisory Group.
In the words of that force, he is therefore influencing policy there.
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Jun 19, 2022 11 tweets 5 min read
Ok @ASPolice I was at the @StandingforXX event at Bristol #LetWomenSpeak

I want to talk about this press release, (which is utter nonsense btw) and about the management of this public order situation

So pin back your ears @aspsarah_crew @ShelfordMark ….
A🧵 Let’s be clear - women gathered to talk about our rights

An angry masked mob wanted to shut that down, to silence us

Your ‘facilitation’ was ineffective

You had all the info & intell yet you did not resource this properly at the outset - your officers had to ask for back-up