This man had been a great leader on black equality issues. But now he is the unacceptable face of reason and truth for the activists. Gangs pose 'greatest danger' to young black men NOT police, says equality champion Trevor Phillips
Marcus Coutain;career criminal has a record of extreme violence including breaking a woman’s eye socket and a man’s jaw. He was in possession of a knife, wanted for recall to prison for breaching conditions, fought police and now the brave arresting officer is summarily suspended
These are young soldiers from the Household Cavalry who quietly came out and cleaned up the memorial. Such quiet dignity. Next time this happens in our capital city I am going to do this myself. Who will come with me ?
Just spoke to an experienced expensively skilled Det Sgt on a specialist high profile squad. With 16 years, commendations etc, put their notice in today. A valuable asset. The line manager responded with a text they 'wanted to plan for a replacement'. Says it all
@metpoliceuk
Stop fare evaders is a key element of the broken windows/Zero Tolerance policing approach. The conviction of a police officer for detaining a suspected fare evader puts an end to any hope of the police restoring some order to our streets. The message is clear to cops: do nothing
I am on
@talkRADIO
on Sunday at 11.10 in the morning debating with an activist “Defund the Police”. That should be fun.😂😂 I will be advising them that when they get assaulted or robbed or worse they should call the RSPCA or the AA
Another 14 yrs service career DS has just resigned. Specialist DS walks out the door to the private sector. Not fast track but career DC then DS. Someone who actually knows what they are doing.
@PoliceChiefs
when are you going to tell truth to power?
@BellRibeiroAddy
Twenty thousand British sailors died stopping the slave trade. They were mainly poor working class residents of naval ports brutally abducted and enslaved with savage brutality by the press gangs. Places like Chatham, Deptford, Portsmouth, Plymouth lost husbands and sons forever
Despite being called racists and the hostility these police officers may have just prevented another black youth stabbing someone. It could have been this woman’s own son. It must be soul destroying to police in this environment. Not even a word of appreciation. Just aggro
Those of you kicking the police for political points, an easy headline or
@IOPC_Help
promotion or taking your revenge because you didn’t get promoted in the job or colleagues were various forms of …ist to you. Be careful what you wish for. See this in the Spectator
The unfortunate state of policing is a result of the Police Reform process initiated by David Cameron and forced through by Teresa May assisted by a cabal of advisors who knew nothing about policing. It was all done against constant expert/informed advice to the contrary.
I was shocked as a kid when my dad, a local beat officer came home with his uniform ripped after being assaulted. Countless street fights later having inflicted/taken pain with many I fought , I know that violence/fear is part of a street cops life. University doesn’t teach that
Most of you don’t know that in the 2011 riots they were so bad in Clapham the police drove these 7 ton armoured vehicles at the crowd in the dark. That’s how desperate it got. Stop criticising the police and support them or suffer the consequences .
I am proud to have been a Metropolitan Police officer. I always will be. The judges comments at ex PC Cozens trial.
@PoliceChiefs
when will you wake up and get into the fight? Stop apologising. Explain, move on. Lead your people.
I have always been “thieftaker” & passionate about stopping the bullies and predators. But if I was a PC on patrol this morning my chin would be on my chest.They must feel totally alone and unsupported. The leadership has lost the dressing room
The murder of a police officer in a police building is terrible. Several of my family are Met Police Officers. This hurts. My thoughts are with the officer’s families and all other police families. People might do well to remember these selfless people.
Now is the time for the DACs,Asst Commrs, Commanders, Ch Supts to patrol on foot alone and do stop and search on the Broadwater,Stonebridge,Pepys,White City,Myatts Field, Winstanley,Chalk Farm,Studley estates et al. See how frightening it is. Lead by example.I did at 58 on my own
There’s a lot of talk about reforming the police/banning various fighting techniques.Unless you have ever fought an angry fit strong man on your own who wants to kill you then you have no idea what is to be in a real street fight and what you need to do to win.
Why can’t The Police stop so many black males stabbing , shooting and killing each other? Answer: Because they can’t do it on their own and it’s not just their job. So what you may say; but that lawlessness is affecting us all. Some cops have had enough
Last year 671 people were murdered in the UK 97 were black 14.5% . Most were young males. The population of UK is 67 million. Black males aged 15-30 number c300,000. That makes young black males 25x more likely to be murdered than the rest of the population. Why?
I’ve watched the disorder in Bristol videos carefully. Its time to stop the ineffective tactics police use when confronted. It just gets police injured, tired and made to look weak. Water cannon, pepper sprays and baton rounds would stop this nonsense and injuries to police
@uxm1ke
@livethedream99
I was trying to say after the dreadful murders police chiefs and politicians needed to be far more astute in how they handled information on the perpetrator. People in the area knew what he looked like,added 2+2 and made 5. That could have been avoided by being more forthright
This police officer was attacked and got a serious brain injury resulting in damaged eyesight and emergency brain surgery. The Criminal got just 20 months. Unthinking critics of the police are going to get the ineffective police they deserve. One day you will need them.
A courageous
@CambsCops
officer who suffered serious head injuries when he was attacked after being called out to a domestic incident has been nominated for The National
#PoliceBravery
Awards. Well deserved recognition for PC Leo Clarke
@cambsfederation
@jem7069
@gmhales
@NorthantsChief
You are a Deputy Chief Constable. What on Earth are you doing criticising
@NorthantsChief
a Chief Constable on a public forum like this. It’s very unprofessional, a bad example to staff, showing poor judgement and little emotional intelligence. Terrible leadership.
What a ludicrious comment by this 'Detective' Chief Supt. Officer found not guilty of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.
She effectively disagrees with a jury and supports a criminal against her own officers. With leaders like this cops will give up
Kings African Rifles (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi). Served in Burma WW2 with the East African Division alongside the West African Division (Nigeria, Ghana). Part of Slim’s Forgotten Army
@abisessions
@DawnButlerBrent
It would be better if she stood up for black mums who lose their sons to murder from other black males at an alarming rate and even greater rate to life in prison for the killings they do of black people . Ie do something positive instead of moaning about the police
@danielmgmoylan
@BrainLump
@tramowl
@cate_griffiths
@thequentinletts
We joined because the UK economy in the 70s was in deep trouble.On the back of EU membership we grew to number 5 in the World economically and also regained some of our Global political influence using our links into EU and US to do that.We now throw it all away for a pipe dream
With many police injured yesterday at Brixton; Why were so many officers , public order trained and equipped not allowed to wear their protective helmets or carry shields? I know the business, I was a public order Silver commander . At best Incompetence or worse Spinelessness
@JamPacker
@Maureen6Johnson
@tnewtondunn
@alfisutton
You forgot the Russians, Poles, Brazilians, Moroccans, Algerians and later Italians. Indians, Nepalese. Kenyans,Ugandans,Nigerians,Ghana, South Africa, Rhodesia. The Germans bit off more than they could chew. Britain was far from the main player in the end.
Mark was killed in Afghanistan on Valentine’s Day. A member of the Police Service who has been all but forgotten. A reservist infantryman who volunteered to serve. Come on
@PFEW_HQ
@PoliceChiefs
@tpmt_org
@DC_PCC
He stepped up to the plate twice .
The flagpoles of NATO nations at the military side of Kabul Airport.10s of thousands of us once stood here in homage to the fallen.. Pristine and special. Now a shanty town of crates and hardboard for evacuees and discarded possessions. A fitting image to portray utter failure.
Had a drink with two ex cop friends last night. Both been out 10 years. The said; “you never really leave the job, you still care and worry about it”. That is so true for so many
2019 murder rate 671 ,black people were 97 or 14%. Most victims were male in their teens/20s.Black people are 3% of the population.Males are 1.5%.In the target group they are 0.5%. So young black males are perhaps 25 x more likely to be murdered.Society is racist not to stop this
I do not know if the suspended officer knew that Marcus Coutain who had a knife in an affray had previously broken a woman’s eye socket and a man’s jaw or was wanted on recall to prison but if he did, he would be wise to keep him on the floor
Policing offers many opportunities to make money corruptly. I still advise on stopping corruption in many different countries. The single most important factor to prevent it is to pay the police well. If you don’t such behaviour will grow and becomes the norm. It will happen here
When are
@PoliceChiefs
going to stop these costly, unsustainable and ridiculous public order tactics of trading officers’ careers, skin,blood and bone with stupid hand to hand fighting. Wake up get some water cannon with Smartwater indexed markers solutions. Stop injuries to all
This is outside Buckingham Palace . A police sergeant and Constable runaway. We, the media and society have caused this. We should be very afraid, we are on the edge of anarchy in our city centres. Poorer people already have it on the estates. Careful what you wish for
Police officers:
@PFEW_HQ
@PoliceChiefs
@PFEW_Chair
as we remember DDay 75. Please note the first UK soldier to land was Major John Howard of the Ox & Bucks light infantry at Pegasus bridge leading his glider troops . Before the war he was PC Howard of the Oxford City Police
You may have missed this. Written the day before the police were chased away from an estate in Brixton with 22 of them injured leaving residents who called them to the mercy of a huge crowd
Watch this clip & see 3 unarmed young male officers unable to stop the murderous terrorists. If you still believe our police should be unarmed you are a naive idiot prepared to sacrifice more innocent people in the future for a Dixon of Dick Green myth
The responsibility lies firmly at the feet of 14 years of the government. Teresa May and Cameron were warned repeatedly what their ‘Police Reform’ would do.40% of detectives have only 2 years in. Think about that if someone you know is shot, stabbed,robbed
@DawnHFoster
@chunkymark
It looked liked a reasonable use of force to eject an uninvited trespasser from a meeting. He didn’t hit her or twist her arm. It didn’t look very nice , but using force on a person never does.
Met Police 'building relationships' over illegal street parties. The people who break the law by going to these events are not the “community”. The bus driver or carer who live in the street but can’t sleep are. There’s a pandemic rampant still.
This is in the mind of every police officer. They’ve seen things most people can’t imagine will happen. They react to their experiences just like you and me. Listen to what he says to his daughter
@SurreyPolice
Viewing the hundreds of responses there is almost an almost 100% unanimous view this is inappropriate and an own goal damaging public confidence. Every time your officers perform like this you create a damaging Critical Incident
@PoliceChiefs
@CollegeofPolice
Wake up and grow up
Let no one say Sir Mark Rowley does not speak up for the public and the officers who protect us. It is time for
@policeconduct
to be gripped and held to account
@ukhomeoffice
IOPC are undermining your efforts on public safety
@JamesCleverly
@RishiSunak
There are a number of senior police officers in the UK who have faced similar criticism. Few have this man’s moral courage and willingness to tell the truth
I have spoken to a number of retired ex police colleagues and asked “ are you going back”? Majority have said “ what to all this negative criticism to help out and risk my health and life, no way. I’ve volunteered for the NHS”. We used to say society gets the police it asks for.
The
@metpolice
have a 30 year+ scheme to retain experienced staff. They are desperate for detectives. A DC with 32 years applied. A shoe in? No, failed as did not have enough competencies. Almost unbelievable. No wonder the criminals do as they like.
@MPFed
@ColinBrazierTV
@JenLongdenNews
@SkyNews
The arrogance of these people is very clear. They are going to provoke a lot of lost tempers and violence against them from ordinary working people. Most have never taken a punch so do not understand how dangerous what they are doing is. No matter how important the issue is.
Could you display the sustained personal bravery and selflessness of this Muslim woman of Indian/Pakistani heritage. Tortured by the Gestapo and then murdered in a Nazi death camp for her services to Great Britain. She parachuted alone in the dark into France knowing the risks.
I often wonder why we in the police family don’t do more to remember one of our own? He volunteered to serve as a reservist in Afghanistan. The Army named a base after him.
@PFEW_HQ
@PoliceChiefs
@DC_Police
Every day he patrolled on ground littered with IEDs until one got him.
@swplgbt
An appalling misjudgement. It is not for serving police officers to visibly display support for any political or special interest group. They must be apolitical .
I am on
@talkRADIO
with
@JuliaHB1
tomorrow at 8.05 am talking about police and public confidence. As usual I will be direct and will not pull punches in relation to criminals or offenders.
Without these people the murder rate by young black males shooting and stabbing other black mothers sons would be far higher. Its the biggest cause of unplanned death for this section of the community. A tragedy exacerbated by those who will not face facts.
#institutionalracism
@tobygilles
@RDSS400
I do interviews for talk radio. I'll do this one for free and explain if you fail to stop for police and drive off you are likely to get an outcome you don't like . In this case he appears to have been lucky and not reported for that.
@JohnnyMercerUK
@NimkoAli
Yes she doesn’t like the UK. But she does love Scotland.She wants to keep Scotland in the EU as it makes economic sense.Shes merely doing her job and trying to mitigate the damaging effects of the jingoistic English leavers.
Just caught up on episode 2 of the Real Manhunter with retired DCI
@colinsutton
and how his team solved several murders including Milly Dowler and Emily Legrange. I am humbled to have served with such men and women . What an outstanding real life leader and detective. Watch it.
At 10 pm 4k PCs, 22-24 year old, many alone will go out to protect us from violent robbers, burglars, yobs, rapists and worse. I cannot imagine the challenge sergeants and inspectors will face trying to motivate them to do that after the Casey report. Tarnishing everyone of them
@Lashadey
@LeaveEUOfficial
Nigerians captured other Nigerians and sold them for profit in the full knowledge they were going to suffer as slaves. As did other Africans. Africans are still enslaved by Africans in Mauretania. Whites are still enslaved in the UK. Humans enslave humans everywhere still.
@SAINTFOREVER
@enigma915
@JamesMelville
@Anna_Soubry
So now we all know a lot more about it and it’s not “Sunlit Uplands” British Steel and car factories are closing and banks are reducing staff. Let’s give everyone another chance to vote again.
Just noticed a black policeman turning his back on the crowd to avoid the abuse from black yobs. When is
@DavidLammy
@HackneyAbbott
going to speak out against black criminality?
@DawnButlerBrent
@CllrJonSHarvey
I do wish you London MPS would be better informed. The stop and Search Rate for black males in London is 4.5x the figure for whites. 9 x is a result of small numbers of black pop in overall UK figures. You forget young black males(YBM) are 25x more likely to be murdered by YBM
@KeyserSosse
His battle group 3 Rifles suffered 1 in 10 killed or maimed. For the 18-20 year old Riflemen it was 1 in 5. These boys still went out walking on the ground the next day after each attack. That is true grit. It was the most costly tour of any in Afghanistan
The youngest British soldier to die in Afghanistan was Rifleman William H Aldridge, aged just 18 years old, when he was killed today in 2009.
Lest we ever Forget this brave young man, and his service and ultimate sacrifice for our nation 🏴🇬🇧🙏
@FullerDenis
@JulGevers
@jameschappers
I recall Osborne said Brexit would damage the economy& others that we had no real cards to play in negotiations. So far they've been correct
The good thing about the Met being in special measures is that liability for failures now is the responsibility of the Home Office and and HMICFRS . When they did this to Notts years ago it caused near heart failure at the HMIC as it was now their responsibility
@EllieChownsMEP
@ExtinctionR
Thank goodness for that. I am very concerned about damage to the Environment. But you have disrupted my life and many others and are an infringement on my civil liberties. Moreover you are wasting the precious time of the Police and Criminal Justice System
Queensland police trained to forcefully suppress armed offenders. All with just a pistol. At least in Queensland they are training and equipping every police officer to take on an armed terrorist and not let them massacre people waiting for specialists
@myoung1946
It’s normal behaviour in our towns. Most people don’t see it; only police, social workers, HMRC or Border Force officers. It is what you get when someone in authority tells underclass scum with a sense of entitlement, “No you have to abide by the rules like everyone else”.
@Angela22151054
@Willow__Bella
Don’t be silly, they are there to ensure compliance with laws passed into statute by a democratically elected government of the people. Our elected officials are empowered to decide on our behalf.
@ItsWeary
This shows what is wrong with police promotion selections. There is a Chief Inspector there,gormless doing nothing & Sgts there;a lone PC takes command and organises a tight double cordon reducing the risk of injury to everyone
@PoliceChiefs
@CollegeofPolice
@CityPoliceCops
If you are not or never have been a member of the police it might wise to reflect upon his message. I spent 10 years trying to energise the discretionary commitment of many. They feel undervalued. Would you do a good job feeling this angry? The’re human to
@SkyNews
@joncraig
But she's just cut police officers by 20k and had cut firearms officers by 2k to say nothing of cutting the Border Force and Prison staff
All those who hold rank in the Police Service; stop describing yourself as a manager or supervisor. It is the wrong mindset for policing. It’s why there are the morale and public confidence issues we have. You are a Team Leader or member of the Senior Leadership team. Be a LEADER
@streety1984
@darrengrimes_
Very Senior Police officers decided to risk the skin and eyesight of their officers rather than upset anyone. They forget the millions of us watching this weakness allowing the virus to spread and we are pretty upset.
The UK today commemorates a career violent criminal in America. 5 prison sentences. Stuck a gun in a pregnant woman’s stomach breaking into her house. Drug crazed offending, terrorising a shop dies after contact with a rogue US policeman. We celebrate this ?