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Anyone who wants to write a complaint but is feeling lazy, feel free to plagarise mine which I've put online for that purpose:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc95xb7p_0gg3chwhs
You can complain either directly to the Chief Constable of Sussex Police, [FONT=Arial]Sussex Police Headquarters, [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Malling House, [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Church Lane[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial]BN7 2DZor online with the IPCC: http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/index/complaints/forms.htm
...or both!!! (Hint: do both :-) ).
The more letters the chief constable receives, the more effect they'll have...
Hope you is all having good weekends!
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Ooh - and another gem from Sussex police's Policing Pledge:
**The Policing Pledge explained **
The Police Service in England and Wales will support law abiding citizens and pursue criminals [and cyclists??] relentlessly to keep you and your neighbourhoods safe and from harm [or from going to the toilet]. We will:
1) Always treat you fairly with dignity and respect ensuring you have fair access to our services at a time that is reasonable and suitable for you. [Yeah, right]
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From the Sussex police website. I think they'd better seek harder:
**Sussex Police seeks to be as open and transparent as possible in its dealings with the public and consistent with the requirements of the law
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Re " I suspect everything they did was technically correct and within procedural guidelines" - it most definitely was not. Refusing to give us a copy of the byelaw we had supposedly broken and telling us to google it? = not within procedural guidelines (especially as none of us on googling have managed to find a bylaw that says you have to be travelling to be at an airport- which is clearly nonsense - what about families waving goodbye, plane spotters, etc? I suspect no such byelaw exists). Advising 4 citizens that they should urinate in a public place outside the ariport, and thereby break the law = not within procedural guidelines. Initially refusing to give us their ID numbers until I'd pointed out that was against the law = DEFINITELY not within procedural guidelines. And above all, forgetting they are public servants here to serve the public and make our lives safer and more comfortable = against the whole ethos of policing in a supposed democracy. Honestly, we should ALL complain about this. It might seem a small thing, but small things lead to bigger things, especially when the police begin to think they are above the rule of law, as I'm sure the family of Ian Tomlinson would verify.
It's really easy to submit a complaint online through the IPCC; for all you busy people I will write a template one and post it online here later in the week so you can just copy and paste it in. If I don't get a satisfactory repsonse, I'm willing to get a bit of press coverage involved. Who's with me?
But, aside from that - EXCELLENT ride. I had so much fun! Thanks to Oliver and all of you for making it so :-)
Georgia (the most law-abiding citizen who ever walked England's soil)
Oh, yeah! Even better!
I was having so much fun that it only felt like kilometeres, evidently...