| Author | Message | | gchq | | Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:55 am Post subject: London's Metropolitan Police accused of waterboarding |
| London's Metropolitan Police accused of waterboarding suspects
The Times
10 Jun 2009
The claims are part of an investigation which includes accusations
that evidence was fabricated and suspects' property was stolen
Metropolitan Police officers subjected suspects to waterboarding, according to allegations at the centre of a major anti-corruption inquiry, The Times has learnt.
The torture claims are part of a wide-ranging investigation which also includes accusations that officers fabricated evidence and stole suspects’ property. It has already led to the abandonment of a drug trial and the suspension of several police officers.
However, senior policing officials are most alarmed by the claim that officers in Enfield, North London, used the controversial CIA interrogation technique to simulate drowning. Scotland Yard is appointing a new borough commander in Enfield in a move that is being seen as an attempt by Sir Paul Stephenson, the Met Commissioner, to enforce a regime of “intrusive supervision”.
The waterboarding claims will fuel the debate about police conduct that has raged in the wake of hundreds of public complaints of brutality at the anti-G20 protests in April.
The part of the inquiry focusing on alleged police brutality has been taken over by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. It is examining the conduct of six officers connected to drug raids in November in which four men and a woman were arrested at addresses in Enfield and Tottenham. Police said they found a large amount of cannabis and the suspects were charged with importation of a Class C drug. The case was abandoned four months later when the Crown Prosecution Service said it would not have been in the public interest to proceed. It is understood that the trial, by revealing the torture claims, would have compromised the criminal investigation into the six officers.
None of the officers under suspicion has been arrested, but the IPCC said last night: “This is an ongoing criminal investigation and as such all six officers will be criminally interviewed under caution.”
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “Whilst the investigation is ongoing it is not appropriate to make assumptions. These are serious allegations that raise real concern. The Met does not tolerate conduct which falls below the standards that the public and the many outstanding Met officers and staff expect.”
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Tony Blair - War Criminal
http://www.petitiononline.com/BWCF/petition.html | |  | | Diceros | | Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject: |
| Let's not make the same old mistake of jumping to conclusions, its early days.
some say its mpt like the CIA ' "waterboarding" - "the officers were accused of pushing suspects' heads into buckets of water."
Whether its the CIA style of "waterboarding" or shoving suspects heads in flushing toilets/buckets of water, whatever, its not the sort of interrogation techniques we expect from our Police.
No doubt the officers involved shall be appropriatly dealt with.
Cheers. | | | | Diceros | | Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: |
| | My trust and faith in the Met is undiminished | | | | gchq | | Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject: |
| Channel 4 News
WATERBUCKETING
Virtually an entire Metropolitan police crime squad has been disbanded for alleged corruption, brutality and subjecting suspects to a kind of water torture – head in a bucket of water until you nearly think you’re drowning. It has a whiff of waterboarding about it.
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Tony Blair - War Criminal
http://www.petitiononline.com/BWCF/petition.html | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject: |
| | Must be a neolib conspiracy behind it... | | | | Diceros | | Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:03 pm Post subject: |
| | Quote: | It has a whiff of waterboarding about it.
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An underwater - whiff ?
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