THE BRITISH INQUISITION
The police in Cambridgeshire have circulated a CD to the gipsies/travellers urging them to contact the police if they feel that they have been discriminated against or suffered harassment.
The CD, which cost £10,000, is called ‘Del gavvers pukker-cheerus’, which is Romany for ‘Give police a chance’. In the CD, Superintendent Simon Edens tells the gipsies/travellers that the police had previously ‘got things badly wrong’ and that: ‘It horrified me that so many young people are being victimised and yet don’t have the confidence to come forward and I’m determined to change that’.
The CD was funded by the Home Office in order to tackle race crimes.
In the CD a Romany journalist interviews gipsies/travellers. He alleges that 68% of young gipsies/travellers have suffered racist discrimination. Sergeant Vic Gaspin, who specialises in hate crimes, points out that racially motivated offences attract harsher penalties and alleges that gipsies/travellers endure ‘disgusting and offensive’ abuse on ‘a daily basis’. He tells the gipsies/travellers: ‘Anyone who assaults you because of your ethnic background - from a push or shove up to GBH - these levels of assault can be classified as racially aggravated’.
Cambridgeshire includes the village of Cottenham, where gipsies/travellers have set up a large illegal site in breach of the planning law.
In the CD Superintendent Edens says: ‘We are not the police for the majority, we are everybody’s police’.
It is quite clear that the police no longer represent the majority on a range of issues.
The CD, which cost £10,000, is called ‘Del gavvers pukker-cheerus’, which is Romany for ‘Give police a chance’. In the CD, Superintendent Simon Edens tells the gipsies/travellers that the police had previously ‘got things badly wrong’ and that: ‘It horrified me that so many young people are being victimised and yet don’t have the confidence to come forward and I’m determined to change that’.
The CD was funded by the Home Office in order to tackle race crimes.
In the CD a Romany journalist interviews gipsies/travellers. He alleges that 68% of young gipsies/travellers have suffered racist discrimination. Sergeant Vic Gaspin, who specialises in hate crimes, points out that racially motivated offences attract harsher penalties and alleges that gipsies/travellers endure ‘disgusting and offensive’ abuse on ‘a daily basis’. He tells the gipsies/travellers: ‘Anyone who assaults you because of your ethnic background - from a push or shove up to GBH - these levels of assault can be classified as racially aggravated’.
Cambridgeshire includes the village of Cottenham, where gipsies/travellers have set up a large illegal site in breach of the planning law.
In the CD Superintendent Edens says: ‘We are not the police for the majority, we are everybody’s police’.
It is quite clear that the police no longer represent the majority on a range of issues.
posted by erc @ 11:17 pm
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