Comments on: Terrerism, Recentment and Wandsworth Borough Police

By: Andrew james

Andrew james — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:08:00 +0000

Have a butchers here->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QidqHtwXFfY&feature=related

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:25:47 +0000

Yeah i heard about this guy who saved loads of sikh’s from a burning bus which blew up, he was in the news and everything. He’s now an hounoury sikh and got like a hundred medals! Police do a great job!!!!

By: Gez

Gez — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:48:47 +0000

Fantastic. Yeah it looks like the same guy. What a hero!

By: CDS

CDS — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:13:01 +0000

Are we talking about the same chap who just saved 66 women and children in a blazing coach fire on the M3 on Friday 31/07/2009. His name was Pc Colin Swan 444ww from Wandsworth borough. I glad he didn’t have a problem with his bravery or issues with race.

By: Mcbaine

Mcbaine — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:47:23 +0000

“By using section 44’s lack of a need of reasonable suspicion, police are stopping and getting information from people which is stored on a database for 7 years and can be used for any investigation by the police or other government bodies. Combine that with CCTV footage and you have quite a powerful mine of data from which to investigate anything you like, criminal or otherwise”

The only people who should be worried about this are criminals and terrorists and perhaps the odd paranoid schizophrenic.

By: Gez

Gez — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:49:53 +0000

The point is that all the stops and searches under section 44 have not led to a single charge under the terrorism act. The officers have no more a clue as to whether I am a terrorist or not as they didn’t even search me.

The purposes are two fold.
1) To generate a statistic that police forces can pull out to say they are combating terrorism. “5,000 stop and searches led to no terrorism in wandsworth/wherever.” Nice one.

This ridiculous stat-mongering, combined with a fear of being seen to be targeting ethnic groups has led to the recent phenomenon of police targeting white people for S44 stops to “even-up” the stats. What a waste of time and money!

2) By using section 44’s lack of a need of reasonable suspicion, police are stopping and getting information from people which is stored on a database for 7 years and can be used for any investigation by the police or other government bodies. Combine that with CCTV footage and you have quite a powerful mine of data from which to investigate anything you like, criminal or otherwise.

This is despite the fact that S44 does not give the police the right to any personal information from the people they stop. It was intended for stop and search powers only.

By: Gez

Gez — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:22:47 +0000

“I find it hard to beleive the officer in question would of stopped you due to the colour of your skin.”

Yet another good point rendered moot by an unforgivable grammatical error. Are you trying to wind me up?

By: me

me — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:50:17 +0000

Fuck yeah

By: Mcbaine

Mcbaine — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:57:07 +0000

Terrorism is still a threat and will most probably be with us for years to come, I find it hard to beleive the officer in question would of stopped you due to the colour of your skin. There has been threats carried out by Irish terrorist and none organised groups as well as from Al-Qaeda etc The current biggest group carrying out such crimes are actually that of animal rights groups. (what does a terrorist look like?) If stopping and accounting people about their presence in an area disrupts such groups I hardly think 2 minutes of your time or anyone elses time for that matter is going to be a major problem to your human rights.

By: Gez

Gez — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:42:43 +0000

I’d like it about as much as having my details stored for 7 years on a database with suspected criminals for simply standing outside a shop.

In any case, I didn’t mention Colin because he did his job, I mentioned him because he can’t spell the words he is required to write all day long.

Are you referring to Colin Swan or Stewart Low? If you would like to continue this discussion further feel free to comment on my other blog: http://bit.ly/tFRRr.