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[CLKD]

It was in the open.  Child abuse wasn't the headline it is now. 

Interesting article in the Sat. press about how much involvement the Police at the time had with JS 

[honeybun]

If they knew and heads turned away then those people should have to account for why this happened.
They won't as police protect their own.

Does not excuse them though.


Honeyb
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[jo61]

action should be taken against the officers who turned a blind eye, how can we trust a police force who condones this behaviour.

[CLKD]

Can we trust the UK Police Force ............ 

[Joyce]

They're not all bad pennies! Yes I agree a few are, but it's a small percentage overall.

[CLKD]

I know an ex Cop who, if he hadn't been on 'that' side might well have finished up on the 'other' .......  - angry, violent towards his wife and 3 kids, kicked the dog but the smiliest bobby on the beat    ....... his Colleagues thought the World of him 

[Joyce]

My hubby was a cop! So too was my SIL.  They do a tough job. Mine did a good job & yes it got to him, but he found a way to get it out of his system - hill walking. Never lost the plot with me, as that was & is not his temperament. It takes someone with "balls" to do their job but not all of them "turn." I feel that those who lash out at their nearest & dearest already have that streak in their temperament. Don't paint them all with the same brush, as that is not a true & fair assessment of the police.

[CLKD]

This guy had that streak already    .......... one of the reasons he joined the Force, to 'get even' were his words <sigh> - there will always be bad apples in the pile ..........

[honeybun]

And that is all it is.....a very few bad apples. We all know people like that in every walk of life.
I don't envy the police one bit. I know a good few as friends, and dated one or two in the past. My best pals dad was the local sergeant so I grew up around them.
Decent men on the whole doing a very hard job.

We never hear about the good ones just the ones who have done something wrong. Good ones don't sell so many newspapers.

Honeyb
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[Pennyfarthing]

My late uncle was a policeman and did something like 45 years service.  This was in the days before early retirements etc.  He went in as a very young man and was a bobby on the beat all his working life.  He was a real village policeman. 

I was at a community event and they had someone very high up in the police and he started talking to me.  I mentioned my uncles length of service and he sort of rolled his eyes and said that couldn't be right because the maximum anybody could do was some figure which I've now forgotten.  I said he'd been dead about 20 years and that he would have worked from around 1920 to approx. 1965.  I could see he didn't believe me so I told him that if he checked the police archives he would get it confirmed.  I always know within minutes whether I like someone but this guy was creepy and I didn't like him.

Just a few months later I read in our regional newspaper that he'd been dismissed for several counts of pinching police money, accepting bribes and some other stuff. I just knew he was a wrong 'un.   

[Pennyfarthing]

Just spent an interesting 10 mins reading through this old thread about the vile Jimmy Savile after the full report came out today on the horrific catalogue of attacks he carried out.

It's not surprising that Savile fooled his colleagues, bosses, royalty, Politicians etc ...... He even fooled a few on here!

[CLKD]

Most of us probably.  Sadly harassment in many forms was 'of it's time' in most industries.  Watching Len Goodman with Eve Pollard 1 afternoon this week, she was an Editor: the 1st woman to hold the post: in the 1980s and was told when she rang to find out where the 'copy' for the night was, that she couldn't possibly be the 'Boss'  - the man running the print line asked to speak to her Manager ……..

The truth will never come out.  Interestingly, a Police man [now retired] who was involved in the initial Savile investigations was told that there were no written records in the BBC relating to those employees  ……….   suddenly records were found  .  Why would any organisation keep records from that far back ……… ……… I wonder if the Report released today will be in the Public Domain?  So much sadness, so many un-answered questions 

[Pennyfarthing]

Most of us probably.  Sadly harassment in many forms was 'of it's time' in most industries.  Watching Len Goodman with Eve Pollard 1 afternoon this week, she was an Editor: the 1st woman to hold the post: in the 1980s and was told when she rang to find out where the 'copy' for the night was, that she couldn't possibly be the 'Boss'  - the man running the print line asked to speak to her Manager ……..

The truth will never come out.  Interestingly, a Police man [now retired] who was involved in the initial Savile investigations was told that there were no written records in the BBC relating to those employees  ……….   suddenly records were found  .  Why would any organisation keep records from that far back ……… ……… I wonder if the Report released today will be in the Public Domain?  So much sadness, so many un-answered questions 

He didn't fool me!!

[Joyce]

There was always something creepy about him, made my skin crawl. Just glad my daughter never got picked for Jim'll Fix It!!!

[Ju Ju]

Attitudes are changing and have changed towards sexual harressment, assault and rape, thank goodness. It reminds me of when I was a special constable in the 70s. I witnessed a WPC being sexually harassed. What shocked me more is that she accepted it as her due if she wanted to remain in the police force.