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      Can a Garrick member chair an inquiry into police sexism fairly? I have my doubts | Alison

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 16:00 · 1 minute

    Sir John Mitting will rule on whether undercover officers broke the law by deceiving women like me. Yet he’s a member of a male-only club

    Those of us involved in the so-called spy cops scandal have followed with interest the recent media coverage of the men-only Garrick Club and its membership list of high-profile individuals. It is not news to us that senior judges and powerful men in the security services have been members. Included among the elite was the chair of the public inquiry into undercover policing, John Mitting. Since his appointment as inquiry chair in 2017 we have been calling this out, as we believe it is an obvious conflict of interest – yet our concerns have predictably been ignored.

    The inquiry had been established two years earlier by the then prime minister, Theresa May, as a direct result of investigations by women like me into the disappearances of our ex-partners , and the subsequent revelations of their true identities as Metropolitan police undercover officers. The abuse of women, and institutional sexism in the police, are fundamental to understanding the significance of this inquiry.

    Alison is one of eight women who first took legal action against the Metropolitan police over the conduct of undercover officers and a founder member of Police Spies Out of Lives . A core participant in the public inquiry into undercover policing, she is one of the authors of Deep Deception – The Story of the Spycop Network by the Women who Uncovered the Shocking Truth

    Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here .

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      Rayner denies wrongdoing over council house sale amid police review

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 09:53

    Labour deputy leader tells BBC she can provide tax advice given at time following Tory complaint to Manchester force

    Angela Rayner has insisted she did “absolutely nothing wrong” when she sold her council house after the police announced they were reviewing a decision not to investigate .

    The deputy Labour leader told the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme she was confident she had not broken any rules.

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      « On a voulu ruiner la réputation des hackers de Lockbit », rencontre avec le directeur opération d’Europol

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 2 days ago - 09:42

    Europol, l'agence européenne de police criminelle, a intensifié sa lutte contre les cybercriminels avec plusieurs opérations majeures depuis un an. Une manière de casser le mythe du « hacker inatteignable » pour le Général Lecouffe.

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      ‘He got away with it’: families seek tougher sentence for Nottingham attacker

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 13:00

    James Coates, whose father, Ian, was among those killed, calls for public inquiry into attacks carried out by Valdo Calocane

    James Coates lives just around the corner from where his father, Ian, was killed by Valdo Calocane during his night of violence in Nottingham last year.

    He remembers 13 June 2023 vividly, waking up to the news about the attacks before making his way around dozens of police cordons as he headed towards work in the city centre. He heard that one of the victims had been found on Magdala Road, close to his home.

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      ‘It was so wrong’: why were so many people imprisoned over one protest in Bristol? – podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 05:00


    More people have been imprisoned for rioting during a single day in Bristol in 2021 than in any other protest-related disorder since at least the 1980s. What was behind this push to prosecute so harshly? by Tom Wall

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      Former CPS chief says clampdown on protests risks creating ‘thought crimes’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 12:00

    Exclusive: Max Hill KC says it is imperative to protect free speech when setting limits on protesting

    The former director of public prosecutions for England and Wales has warned against the risk of creating “thought crimes” amid the recent clampdown on protesters and demonisation of demonstrators by politicians.

    In an interview with the Guardian, Max Hill KC, who was head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) from 2018 until November last year, said it was imperative to protect free speech when setting limits on protest.

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      Police in England must keep answering mental health calls, charity urges

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 10:29

    Ministers asked to pause scheme that allows police to step back from responding to callouts or risk further deaths

    Ministers should order police forces in England to keep attending mental health calls until more funding is in place for the NHS to plug the gap or risk further deaths, a charity is urging.

    Rethink Mental Illness has written to the home and health secretaries asking them to immediately pause the right-care-right-person scheme, which allows police forces to step back from responding to mental health callouts, after “a series of tragic deaths” associated with the change.

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      ‘They signed her death warrant’: how probation service failings left a violent man free to kill

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 09:00

    The father of Michaela Hall, the charity worker killed by her partner after he was wrongly assessed as only ‘medium risk’ says lessons must be learned

    A serial violent offender who previously tried to strangle his partner was free to murder her after being wrongly assessed as “medium risk” by the ­probation service.

    When Lee Kendall killed ­charity worker Michaela Hall on 31 May 2021, police had received 34 pieces of ­intelligence about his domestic abuse against her and he had almost 50 ­convictions, relating to 100 offences.

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      Labour to give police emergency powers to charge domestic abuse suspects

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 07:10

    Crime crackdown plan also gives victims of rape and sexual assault the right to specialist support throughout justice process

    Six police forces will be given powers to charge domestic abuser suspects without the involvement of the Crown Prosecution Service as part of a series of Labour proposals to solve more crimes announced on Thursday.

    A future Keir Starmer government would also give victims in domestic abuse, rape and sexual assault cases the right to have specialist support advisers throughout the criminal justice process and beside them in court.

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