I wrote to the Suffolk Police & Crime Commissioner https://victimslaw.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/what-the-police-dont-want-you-to-know/
This is his response;
“I note your views regarding the recent Thematic Inspection on Crime Data Integrity conducted by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary. The Chief Constable has provided me with a detailed report setting out his explanation regarding the accuracy of the Constabulary’s crime data and his proposals for taking forward the HMIC’s recommendations. This report was presented at my Accountability and Performance (A&P) Panel in October 2014 and is available on my website, link as follows www.suffolk-pcc.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/AP14_70-PCC-Report-HMIC-CDI-August-2014-FINAL.pdf
The Chief Constable will provide regular reports on progress against the recommendations to my A&P Panel. These are formal meetings at which I hold the Chief Constable to account for the efficiency and effectiveness of Suffolk Constabulary, and this matter will remain high on my agenda until I am satisfied that the HMIC recommendations have been fully addressed.
I am sorry that you feel the service you received from the Constabulary, and lack of access to victims services failed your daughter. I am satisfied that the Constabulary and the other agencies directly involved in your daughter’s case can provide answers to the concerns you raise. I understand that you have previously met with Peter Aldous MP and that Mr Aldous’s office has approached the Chief Constable for his comments. I will be seeking confirmation from the Chief Constable that you have received an explanation regarding your daughter’s case.
The Chief Constable has legal responsibility for ensuring the Constabulary deals with complaints about its policies, staff and officers in line with a statutory complaints framework and complaints are investigated by the Constabulary’s Professional Standards Department (PSD). While I am not responsible for resolving individual complaints I regularly monitor the numbers of complaints, trends in types of complaints and the learning gained by the Constabulary from complaints and misconduct matters.
I am pleased to inform you that the new European Directive for Victims mandates that any victim of crime, whether reported to the police or not, is entitled to access victims services for any support needs they may have. The Directive which establishes minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime [Directive 2012/29/EU] was adopted in October 2012 and EU Member States should implement the provisions into their national laws by 16 November 2015. I am satisfied therefore that this addresses your proposal for a victims law.“
Tim Passmore
Suffolk Police & Crime Commissioner
Police Headquarters
Martlesham Heath
IPSWICH IP5 3QS
www.suffolk-pcc.gov.uk
Dear Mr Passmore
Thank you for your reply, I have read the report and although the police have accountability to the HMIC, they do not have Accountably to the victims of crime.
It is ok for the police to put there mistakes down to a learning experience but that does not help the innocent
victims that are left in the wake of there mistakes.
What you have to understand is that when you are a victim of a serious crime it effects every single part of your life, both mentally and physically.
I had to have a great deal of time off work which also effected me financially.
The amount of stress I was under leading up to trial is indescribable, it was like I was stuck on a fairground waltzer with someone pushing down
on me trying squash me into the ground.
I had to watch every move my daughter made incase things got to much and she decided to take her own life.
While all of this was happening i had a police officer pressuring me into dropping the case and berating my daughter in front of me.
After surviving all of that to get to court and hear how evidence wasn’t collected, notes weren’t taken, interviews weren’t carried out properly and the complete incompetence in the way that the officer presented the evidence.
Then to find out the character witness for the accused was a convicted paedophile, that witness then started to harrasse us.
Every time we complained to the police they wouldn’t take it seriously,the harassment got worse.
I was forced to move house and change my phone number.
I have received death threats!
Still the police do nothing.
on one occasion of complaining about the harassment to the police, the officer after failing to leave my property! punched my partner in the head six times! and arrested him.
That is yet to go to court and we are still waiting to hear from Norfolk police about the complaint.
There has been more public harassment since then to me, they put an advert online advertising me for sex.
But as I have said I have heard nothing from the police since.
THIS IS HOW VICTIMS OF CRIME ARE TREATED!
life will never be the same again.
can you honestly tell me that a one line sort of apology for one part of a list of many mistakes is enough?
That I should be happy that the police can put everything I and my family have been through down to a learning experience?
When clearly they continue to let us down!
Would that be enough for you?
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/victims-law
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30872526
victims law 