It is from a completely unknown source.

The data on it has not been subject to any audit trail at all.

The BNP won’t confirm or deny the accuracy of the list and you have no other way of auditing the accuracy or otherwise of the data.

Now, you observe that there are policemens’ names on the list.

Do you:

a) Have a quiet word with the coppers involved reminding them of the rules on membership of dodgy organisations but no more.

b) Issue a memo to ALL officers reminding everyone what the rules are.

c) Take immediate legal action against those people listed based on your unfounded assumption that the list has not been tampered with in any way whatsoever.

If a constable wishes to join the Anarchist Party (isn’t that an oxymoron?), Sadomasochists North West, Fulham Supporters Club, the Gardners’World panel or the BNP it shouldn’t matter unless it interferes with his/her duty. Good grief, officers can be members of the Masons or even the Cliff Richard Fan club.

I would have an issue with them joining Islamic Jihad, but then again I’m probably racist.

I’m a firm believer in Civil Liberties (boo and hiss as much as you like) but we don’t have civil liberties unless everyone has them – even those who wish to join such an obnoxious group as the BNP.

Once again a force all too eager to prove it’s own righteousness. How can they pursue a persecution, sorry investigation, on “leaked” papers? Was their provenance confirmed or was it just another malicious series of events?

Once again I give up, in this job “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”.

Before the “if you don’t like it you can always leave” (quoted from other blogs and posts) brigade start I have a family and mortgage so can’t really afford to just get out.

I think that the police service/force ( delete as applicable, both options can be deleted!!) hasn’t come to terms with racism or alleged,since the Macpherson report. Bless Stephen Lawrence, perhaps more incompetence, than racist, none the less a tragic event.

Recently in the news there are over 1,000 serving Police Officers with convictions for Theft, dishonesty- we will put that down to lying!!, Violence against the person, etc. I don’t condone any of the above offences.

He has possibly been judged on his personal beliefs, ” without fear favour or malice” have any suspects/ victims of crime made a complaint as to how the ex officer treated them? at the time.

If so, he should go, aswell as the other 1,000 officers still serving.

I know of an officer from an ethnic minority, who has been arrested for domestic violence on more than one occassion, including an incident out of force where the officers attending were assaulted.

He is still in his job! interstingly, he has served in PSD/PDS.

Police, including the dog with the ginger eyebrows have to start playing on a level playing field as regards their officers irrelevant of alleged offence.

thanks, now corrected.

I have to agree with you about the infringement on our human rights. It seems to me, from my very limited experience, that police are exempt from the human rights legislation – at least as far as the government is concerned.

I don’t know, but maybe that’s something we should all be worried about, not just PC Bettley