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Lord Palmerstone wrote:

mooky9 wrote:

Lord Palmerstone wrote:
Expect much more of this. The "slavery" and "trafficking" rubbish is the latest agenda of an increasingly politicised police force. Someone broken in on your home? We'll come and see you in a week or two. A 30 year old allegation that could have been made anytime? We'll send EIGHT coppers and a BBC news team- instantly.
Every illegal stopped coming into the country is "trafficked" and every one caught afterwards is a "slave"
What a weak lot we are to put up with this garbage

Expect much more of what, people commenting on things they don't know about!? The NCA and immigration take the lead on trafficking and slavery, not the Police. The CPS decide on charges, not the Police and the politicians seem to decide what to tell the Police to do, they are supposed to be independent of parliament but that obviously isn't good enough for the political elite who seem to want them to do their bidding but when the finger points at them it's just an 'error of judgement' or an oversight. You are right we are weak to put up with that, but rather than take an easy pot shot at the Police how about we look at the real issue - politicians.

No. At Hendon they used to be told, in the 60's "you're entitled to arrest anyone except the Queen" And rather than sheep-like pursuit of the momentary political fad, be it "human trafficking", "modern slavery" "ancient sexual misdemeanour", "cottaging" (a previous favourite) etc etc, it's up to the police to say "look we've barely got enough coppers to keep the streets non-violent and catch those who break in on citizens' homes. If you want us to pursue your fad, e.g. News of the Screws listening into 2 Jags pizza orders, then expect it to be extremely low priority-sometime in the 22nd century for example, because if you choose to criminalize everything you've got to understand that most people only care, rightly, about what was criminal around 1976, not all the millions of crimes you've made up since"
As for the CPS Crown Court Department, words fail me. What odds are Ladbrokes giving on CPS lasting till 2016?

No idea if Ladbrokes would take a bet on such a potential outcome, BUT the CPS will still be with us a loooong time after 2016, Lord P - the livelihoods of too many otherwise unemployable bad lawyers depends upon it!"