Hundreds Of Police Officers Convicted In Past Three Years

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33635962

If we can't trust the Police.....

A lot of these Officers were guilty of having child sex images. Is it any wonder that paedophile activity is now getting out of hand in Britain today ?

Custodiet ipsos custodes ?

[jno]

and that's from barely half the country. Those figures are rather troubling.

[anotheoldgit]

How can a few perverted cops be the reason why paedophile activity is now getting out of hand in Britain today?

[ummmm]

Well the internet makes such activity much easier.

[Baldric]

"Quelle surprise!"

[mikey4444]

AOg....my point about the paedophile activity and the Police was that if there so many Policemen guilty of having child sex images, can we trust them to find and prosecute others of the same perversion ?

And jno is correct...this is only from some Police forces...think what the complete picture must be like.

[hc4361]

In that link two officers were convicted of possessing indecent images of children, unless I misread it. Two is not 'a lot' out of hundreds.

Paedophile activity is not 'getting out of hand'. It has been out of hand for centuries and is now being properly dealt with.

[mikey4444]

HC...there has been an explosion of child sex images, in the last 20 years, purely because computers and the internet have made it possible. Isn't that common sense ?

[mikey4444]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/online-child-abuse-image-investigations-rise-fivefold-in-a-year-says-acma

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/14/children-risk-images-abuse-online

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/553679/Rise-arrests-child-abuse-pornography-images-digital-devices-phone-computer

[hc4361]

Two police officers out of hundreds, mikey.

I agree that it is easier to share images because of the internet but there has been circles of people sharing indecent images of children for a very long time, before there were cameras if you consider art to be images.

There is the same per centage of paedophiles in the world as there always has been.

[hc4361]

The big difference in the UK is that they are now being convicted

[anotheoldgit]

mikey444

Can't see in any of your three links anything to suggest it is all because a few out of thousands of police officers happen to have child porn images on their computers, even the Australian link.

But what the police can be blamed for is the fact that they chose to turn a blind eye as regard Asian child abusers, in case they were classed as racist.

[Old_Geezer]

But what is the percentage ? How does it com[pare with the general population ? Much better ? Much worse ? About the same ?

[Sqad]

Good post by Old_Geezer above.

Being in possession of child sex images does not make you a paedophile.

Being in possession of child sex images "may" make you a pervert.

It would be interesting, albeit impossible to find out the percentage of men who are in possession of, or have seen, sex images of children and that might put the police situation in perspective.

[Zacs-Master]

But is it not too much of an assumption to think that the police force is made up of the percentage of the pop who have no desire to look at such images?

[Sqad]

Zac....LOL.....really? You may be right.

[Zacs-Master]

Sorry, I slipped into 'AOG Golden Age of Britain' mode there where summers were long, no one gets murdered, there were no foreigners in our country and everything was cheaper than it is now.

[ummmm]

So if you're not a paedophile why would you be in possession of child sex images?

[Sqad]

Interest..........to see if they were salacious in any way,,,,,,devilment......all sorts of reasons which may well be disappointing an temporary, but that wouldn't mean that you had or would want to enter onto paedophylic activity.

[hc4361]

ummmm, the only reasons I can think of is:
a requirement of the job
money. Lots and lots of money

[retrocop]

It comes as no surprise or shouldn't do. Politicians, Judges,Doctors, Teachers,Pakistani cab drivers, Nurses,Bakers and Candle stick makers.
Positions of trust abused. Don't just blame the internet. You could also blame the strive for inclusiveness and diversity but because that is a liberal experiment that fails the community we won't mention that will we.
It would appear that recruitment now is more concerned about ticking certain boxes as to ethnicity etc as to what the candidate has been up to in the past.
Standards of recruiting have dropped to fill those boxes rather than checking the integrity of the candidate.My younger son,aged 33, has no criminal record and is now a Business Adviser in a High Street bank. He applied to join the police but alas he was very fit,heterosexual and white. He tried joining the LFB. The same criteria applied. There must be loads of good,honest straight young men and women who would give the public the service it deserves. I have noticed that the police service has become more politicalised. Police Commissioner Ian Blair was his namesake's lapdog .
In 1970 I knew of one police officer with a Criminal Record although there may have been one or two more. He transferred to the Met from a constabulary in the sticks.His crime was a juvenile conviction for throwing stones at porcelain conductors on telegraph poles and breaking them i.e. Malicious Damage.
That snippet went round the whole division like wild fire.We have a criminal within the ranks.Sad how things change for the worse just to satisfy the liberal elite.