Independent Office for Police Conduct

He must have realized that there was no point going quietly because he was going to be nobbled either way.

Um, at this point, there was a little intervention, the icing on the cake for the whole farce from a group called the IOPC, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is supposed to be the independent watchdog, and it has a well-deserved reputation for protecting senior police officers who are guilty of misconduct.

One example involved Cressida Dick, who was the commissioner for the Metropolitan Police.

Um, she had withheld information from an inquiry into the murder of Daniel Morgan, which is one of the most notorious cases of police corruption in modern British history.

It has so many ramifications coming out of it, uh, and so much evidence has been covered up, and this inquiry was meant to finally get to the bottom of it.

She withheld information.

The IOPC was asked whether she should face charges of misconduct.

They said, "No.

It is believed that police had contact with the man days prior to his death.

West Mercia Police have confirmed that a referral will be made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct following the death.

An eyewitness said they saw police near Kepax Bridge at around 12.10am on Saturday and noticed a body being covered.

A spokesperson for West Mercia Police said, We received a call at around 8.50am on Saturday October 10th about concerns were raised for the welfare of a man in the River Severn near Worcester Rowing Club.

The revelation was one of many to be revealed at the second pre-inquest review into the death of Lydia Pettit, the ex-wife of serving police officer Superintendent Damien Pettit, at Worcestershire Coroner's Court on September 30th.

Described as an inspirational teacher, Miss Pettit from Worcester worked at both St Peter's First School in Droitwich and Blackminster Middle School before becoming a full-time mother prior to her death on July 22, 2021.

The review was attended by representatives from West Mercia Police, the NHS, the Independent Office for Police Conduct and Miss Pettit's mother, Liz Miller.

Discussions focused on the structure of the forthcoming inquest, including its likely duration, required witnesses and the scope of evidence.

Oh, of course, yeah, yeah

... by the police, you know, by the IOPC, and everyone else.

Everyone's gonna want an opinion on it, okay?

Yeah.

... yeah, so, so if I can do, if I can draft a witness statement saying, "At this time, this place, this officer, badge number, station, assaulted me, strangulation, false imprisonment, failing to investigate, breach of pace, breach of SIPA, breach of all their regulations and rules," and I can set that out comprehensively, and then I can attach the CCTV and body-worn footage of the assault, which is all over my TikTok, how is that totally without merit? That's a perfectly set out claim.

You only need to watch the CCTV to find the officer guilty or not, bearing in mind the IOPC found him guilty of false imprisonment, lying to a custody sergeant to authorize my detention, and false imprisonment.

So they've even got the finding from the OI- OI- OIPC, the, the courts have, but still tried to say I've got no merit.

How ridiculous.

The former officer has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct following our investigation.

The IOPC says it's now investigating the case and looking into claims GMP didn't do enough to investigate the allegations as which the officer has denied.

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In other news this morning, a former Greater Manchester police officer has been arrested following an investigation by us into allegations of grooming and sexual abuse.

He left the force in 2021, but is facing accusations from multiple victims of abuse that he kept their details and contacted them for sex.

The IOPC watchdog says it's now investigating the case and looking into claims GMP didn't do enough to investigate the allegations, which the officer has denied.

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But they didn't.

And even with the IOPC report, the IOPC report told Merseyside Police, "You owe Rachel an apology." And they had a meeting, and they wrote back to me, "Merseyside Police have decided we don't owe you a apology." Once you start on the road of, um, standing up to the establishment and you challenge them, they don't like it, and they target you.

Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre, has fought these cases for more than a decade.

Private investigations are important.

The lady that you had on your speaker earlier talking about police discipline, there are ways to get the police fast-tracked out of the job if they're unsuitable candidates, and they can do that internally.

I think, and I don't know the full facts of the investigation, but in this case, because obviously it's presumably a death following police contact, the dreaded IOPC were involved, who seem to have... a lavatorial version of the Midas touch where police discipline is concerned and anytime they're involved it will be tied up in bureaucracy and red tape for years potentially and we've seen that again and again so I would just throw that into the mix.

you know, the IOPC will delay everything, so it's not always the

fault of the individual police force.

I will leave it there.

But that point was still being made.

Now, how it will then work is the IOPC, the police watchdog, are then in charge of this homicide investigation.

Immediately.

It's a mandatory referral by the police force.

They will have an independent investigation by the IOPC.

It is not the police investigating the police.

It's this independent police.

Now, I know from my sources within MO19 and within the Met that they did not expect the worst to happen.