Police threatened with sack for not meeting terror quota

[Mandalorian]

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Terror-search-powers-abus ed.3742939.jp

Terror search powers abused

By ANDREW PICKEN
Transport Reporter

POLICE officers claim they are being threatened with the sack if they do not hit "targets" for the number of people stopped and searched under anti-terror laws.



Two serving British Transport Police (BTP) officers have told the News of increasing pressure to undertake the searches brought in after last year's attack on Glasgow Airport attack, with at least 30-a-day at city train stations.

The insiders claim that officers are being given unofficial daily targets by supervisors. And they have told how the searches were diverting them from other roles.

They also claim officers have:

• Resorted to stopping schoolboys, pensioners and even priests to make up the numbers.
• Been told to take names from the phone book where people have not given their personal details.
• Been warned they will face disciplinary action if they do not stop enough people.

In one apparent internal e-mail passed to the News – which the whistleblowers claim was sent to all senior Scottish BTP officers across Scotland from a Glasgow-based Inspector Vincent Smith – the importance of ensuring officers are carrying out the searches is stressed after just ten people were stopped in one day across the whole country.

It states: "(Assistant Chief Constable] Pacey has indicated officers not complying with his instructions will be moved from their posts or even disciplined to the level of losing their jobs."

The BTP today said that it had no record of this specific e-mail but admitted that Insp Smith and ACC Pacey had sent a number of e-mails encouraging officers to carry out their duties under the anti-terror laws. It also insisted no "specified targets" existed.................

[uselesseater]

Good find, outrageaous but not surprising.

[TonyGosling]

"Assistant Chief Constable Alan Pacey has indicated officers not complying with his instructions will be moved from their posts or even disciplined to the level of losing their jobs."

Quite a rough buch his colleagues look too. How many are freemasons or both 'common purpose' I wonder?

Alan Pacey
Assistant Chief Constable (Operations) from January 2006 (on a temporary basis until his permanent appointment in April 2007). Alan joined BTP in London in 1980 and served in both uniform and CID posts before being put in charge of the Specialist Crime Squads as a Detective Inspector in 1989. Having worked as a Chief Inspector and Detective Chief Inspector on the London Underground, Alan became the Area Commander of the Wales and Western Area as a Chief Superintendent in 2003.