Saturday, 05 December 2020

                                                                               BY CHRIS HOBBS

The contents of the recent Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) into the Metropolitan Police’s tactic of stop and search were as predictable as night following day.

When the IOPC announced it would be mounting some sort of review into stop and search, I naively thought it would at least be a structured investigation which would be looking closely at all the issues namely; police powers, the current level of violence on London’s streets, gang related violence and rivalries, drill music and youth culture, drugs crime, stop and search statistics and successes with weapons taken off the streets, positive interaction with charities and organisations, media hostility towards police, the agendas of political and quasi political organisations, the risk posed to police, the effect of cutbacks, positivity in police responses-justice for victim’s families, lives saved via first aid and metal health intervention, in addition to deaths, the physical damage to victims resulting from knife crime such as evisceration.

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                                                                 Peace to the nations

 

Enter, the Watchman for the nations: (Looking penitent and in sorrow of heart): Here I am, Lord…

Enter, Sovereign Lord – the Maker of heaven and earth:  Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. (Psalm 115:15).

18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.