Post by RedFlag32 on Sept 16, 2006 17:56:06 GMT
PSNI needs update on human rights obligations
North Belfast News
15/09/2006
A report into whether the PSNI are fulfilling its duties under the Human Rights act has shown there is “ample evidence” the force needs to update its human rights training.
The Policing Board’s annual report released this week investigates if members of the PSNI are complying with the terms laid out in the Human Rights Acts of 1998.
The Board makes 45 recommendations in the report, which states that the PSNI “should put in place a scheme for the expert and comprehensive evaluation of the delivery of PSNI training on human rights by December 2006”.
The report also shows that the highest number of complaints made against PSNI officers arose from North Belfast.
In April 2005 to March 31, 2006 there were 100 complaints made, with Antrim DCU area racking up 71 in second place.
This is against an overall eight per cent increase in complaints made against police from the previous year.
The number of allegations also increased substantially in 2005/06 by over 25 per cent.
The report notes an increase of allegations per officer from 2003, where they had recorded 61 allegations per 100 officers. In 2006 this has increased to 87 allegations per 100 officers.
Allegations relating to failure of duty rose from 38 per cent in 2004/05 to 42 per cent in 2005/06.
One allegation details an officer in April 2005 who wrote witness statements and appended signatures purporting to be those of a witness.
Another incident in December 2005 highlights the case of three PSNI officers who were required to resign after they posed with firearms in front of a flag.
The highest number of deployments of CS spray from April 2005 until March 2006 was again in North Belfast.
This is the second such report from the Policing Board. The first report detailed 99 recommendations for improvements.
Chairman Des Rea said 21 of those remained outstanding.
“In some areas such as training and policy the number of outstanding recommendations is significant. However the board accepts its human rights advisors’ view that this does not reflect an unwillingness to comply on the part of the PSNI.
“However the board will be seeking evidence from the PSNI in the next three months of early progress towards implementation in these specific areas of concern and assurances on the timetable for full implementation,” he said.
.RESPONCE TO ABOVE ARTICLE BELOW.
CGRP Statement on PSNI Human Rights issue
The CGRP firmly believe that a Colonial Police under the control of a british occupation Government can never be acceptable, their history of which they are very proud was and is to subjugate the minority community by the use of all means necessary up to and including murder. Their goal to destroy Republicanism (Their warped sectarian view being anything Catholic was Republican) from the 6 counties with no fear of accountability they killed men, women and children.
They and the british controlled loyalist murder gangs through fear intimidation and outright murder held the occupied 6 counties in a grip of violence for decades and they have not gone away. The collusion between the british security services that allowed the slaughter of innocence in pure sectarian hatred is being exposed daily
Changing their name giving them greener uniforms, wont change their ideology of inbred sectarianism and hatred. They are not a community police force but rather an occupation police who by means of force will beat all forms of resistance to the continued occupation of part of our land off the streets.
How can anyone with conscience accept the B.Specials /RUC /PSNI in any form their history is what they are and why they were created.
Reject them at every turn.
CGRP United States
Contact usmem@cgrp.info
Visit our web site www.cgrp.info
North Belfast News
15/09/2006
A report into whether the PSNI are fulfilling its duties under the Human Rights act has shown there is “ample evidence” the force needs to update its human rights training.
The Policing Board’s annual report released this week investigates if members of the PSNI are complying with the terms laid out in the Human Rights Acts of 1998.
The Board makes 45 recommendations in the report, which states that the PSNI “should put in place a scheme for the expert and comprehensive evaluation of the delivery of PSNI training on human rights by December 2006”.
The report also shows that the highest number of complaints made against PSNI officers arose from North Belfast.
In April 2005 to March 31, 2006 there were 100 complaints made, with Antrim DCU area racking up 71 in second place.
This is against an overall eight per cent increase in complaints made against police from the previous year.
The number of allegations also increased substantially in 2005/06 by over 25 per cent.
The report notes an increase of allegations per officer from 2003, where they had recorded 61 allegations per 100 officers. In 2006 this has increased to 87 allegations per 100 officers.
Allegations relating to failure of duty rose from 38 per cent in 2004/05 to 42 per cent in 2005/06.
One allegation details an officer in April 2005 who wrote witness statements and appended signatures purporting to be those of a witness.
Another incident in December 2005 highlights the case of three PSNI officers who were required to resign after they posed with firearms in front of a flag.
The highest number of deployments of CS spray from April 2005 until March 2006 was again in North Belfast.
This is the second such report from the Policing Board. The first report detailed 99 recommendations for improvements.
Chairman Des Rea said 21 of those remained outstanding.
“In some areas such as training and policy the number of outstanding recommendations is significant. However the board accepts its human rights advisors’ view that this does not reflect an unwillingness to comply on the part of the PSNI.
“However the board will be seeking evidence from the PSNI in the next three months of early progress towards implementation in these specific areas of concern and assurances on the timetable for full implementation,” he said.
.RESPONCE TO ABOVE ARTICLE BELOW.
CGRP Statement on PSNI Human Rights issue
The CGRP firmly believe that a Colonial Police under the control of a british occupation Government can never be acceptable, their history of which they are very proud was and is to subjugate the minority community by the use of all means necessary up to and including murder. Their goal to destroy Republicanism (Their warped sectarian view being anything Catholic was Republican) from the 6 counties with no fear of accountability they killed men, women and children.
They and the british controlled loyalist murder gangs through fear intimidation and outright murder held the occupied 6 counties in a grip of violence for decades and they have not gone away. The collusion between the british security services that allowed the slaughter of innocence in pure sectarian hatred is being exposed daily
Changing their name giving them greener uniforms, wont change their ideology of inbred sectarianism and hatred. They are not a community police force but rather an occupation police who by means of force will beat all forms of resistance to the continued occupation of part of our land off the streets.
How can anyone with conscience accept the B.Specials /RUC /PSNI in any form their history is what they are and why they were created.
Reject them at every turn.
CGRP United States
Contact usmem@cgrp.info
Visit our web site www.cgrp.info