South Wales Policeman Sent 'Grindr Messages To Boy, 14'

A misconduct hearing has been told that 47-year-old police constable, Anthony French, sent inappropriate messages to an undercover officer whom he believed to be a 14-year-old boy on 'Grindr', which apparently is a dating app for homosexuals.  The South Wales officer, who quit the force before the hearing, was charged with gross misconduct after sending several messages during a three-hour period, and was arrested the next day.  French sent suggestive messages to the other officer who was posing as a teenager, asking to see his body, whilst simultaneously accessing a gay pornography website.  The hearing found French had breached the bounds of acceptable behaviour, and was guilty of discreditable conduct as well as gross misconduct, and that he would have been sacked if he hadn't already quit.  French was banned from any future police work, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided his behaviour did not reach the threshold for criminal charges to be brought against him. More HERE.

Gwent Police Face 'False Statement' Inquiry Over Cardiff Crash

Coincidentally, on the same day when the main headline on the British mainstream T.V. news was about a corrupt policeman, more police incompetence was the main headline on the BBC Wales news.  The report concerns a car crash in Cardiff in March of 2023 in which three people died, and two others were seriously injured.  (Tributes to the deceased can be seen on the left.)  Seven Gwent police officers have now been served with misconduct notices after the incident, one of whom is being criminally investigated for allegedly falsifying their witness statement, the police watchdog has said.  The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has announced it has widened its investigation after one Gwent officer was handed a misconduct notice in June.  The IOPC said it had analysed "a significant amount of evidence" and received "detailed complaints" from the families of the young people involved.  Two officers have been handed gross misconduct notices concerning whether or not they carried out searches of the homes of two of the people reported missing.  One of these officers is also under criminal investigation for allegedly falsifying their witness statement.  Another two officers have been served notices over their handling of missing person reports, one officer for potential misconduct, and another for possible gross misconduct.  One officer has been served a notice for potential gross misconduct concerning their face-to-face communication with family members at a police station, and how they dealt with information received.  An additional two officers have been served misconduct notices over alleged remarks made at the collision scene.  The IOPC has clarified that these notices do not necessarily mean disciplinary or criminal proceedings are guaranteed to follow.

Murdering Rapist Wayne Couzens Should Not Have Been Policeman

I have to admit that I'd never heard of the reprobate Wayne Couzens (pictured left), largely because I stopped watching the news when I realised they were ramming fear-porn down our throats at the start of the Covid-19 pseudo-pandemic four years ago.  That is, until his case was the main story on the evening news today, and was featured prominently on the BBC website.  Apparently, Couzens, now aged 51, joined Kent Police as a Special Constable in 2002, and became an officer with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) in 2011.  He transferred to the Metropolitan Police in 2018, and was on armed protection duties at Parliament between February and July, 2020.  Couzens had allegedly committed a serious sexual assault against a child before his policing career began, and had a liking for extreme and violent pornography.  He had a history of unmanaged debt, and a record of alleged sexual offending going back twenty years, which included unwanted sexual touching and sharing unsolicited photos of his genitals.  Couzens was investigated for indecent exposure in 2015, 2020, and 2021, but the investigations were marked by police failures.  All these behaviours might suggest he was a psychopath.  Couzens should never have been a police officer, and opportunities were missed to stop him, said a report of an enquiry into the case headed by the lawyer Lady Elish Angiolini.  Couzens's repellent behaviour culminated when - in March 2021 - whilst he was off duty, he abducted, raped, and murdered 33-year-old Sarah Everard, for which he rightfully received a whole-life prison sentence.  Couzens lured Everard to his car in Clapham, London, by falsely claiming she was breaking Covid restrictions, and then handcuffed her and bundled her into his vehicle, before driving off with her to Dover in Kent.  He raped Everard in an isolated spot, then dumped her body.  He later burned her body in a fridge, before disposing of Everard's remains in rubble bags in a woodland pond.  More details can be found on the BBC website HERE.