Reason 22 to despise the police?

This report also shews how utterly useless the IPCC can be and how
they seek to excuse almost any wrong-doing by the plods.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7076367.stm

(http://tinyurl.com/28yfmp)

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 Last Updated: Saturday, 3 November 2007, 10:40 GMT

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Officer 'failed' over fall death
A senior police officer failed to act properly before a suicidal woman
fell to her death from a block of flats, a report from the police
watchdog says.
Rachel Nadin, 36, was drinking on the windowsill of her sixth-floor
flat in Manchester, threatening to jump.

As officers tried to speak to her, she fell from the window and died.

An inspector who cancelled patrols an hour earlier after a previous
threat "failed in his duty", the Independent Police Complaints
Commission found.

Officers had prevented Ms Nadin from jumping from the flats eight days
earlier and the day before her death when she had slashed her wrists.

On 2 September 2005, she called police threatening to throw herself
from the 12th floor.

An inspector attended and persuaded Ms Nadin, an alcoholic, to leave
the 12th floor balcony and return to her flat.

He then told the control room that Ms Nadin was back in her flat and
the other patrols should be cancelled, before leaving.

But an hour later she was on her balcony threatening to jump.

While one officer was attempting to speak to Ms Nadin, she fell from
the window.

The independent commission (IPCC) found the officers who attended when
Ms Nadin fell had acted properly and could not have prevented her
death.

But it found the inspector "clearly failed in the performance of his
duties in not carrying out basic checks which would have helped him
assess the situation fully".

His conduct, however, did not cause Ms Nadin's death, the report says,
and recognised he had worked a 17-hour shift.

Accidental death

The report recommended that the officer receives a superintendent's
warning.

Naseem Malik, IPCC Commissioner for the North West, said: "The
investigation was very thorough and determined that Greater Manchester
Police had acted effectively and compassionately in most of its
dealings with Ms Nadin during this difficult period.

"However it is clear that one officer, whether due to inexperience,
lack of training or the fact he had worked long hours, failed to
assess the situation fully.

"The fact that he spent a total of six minutes and 16 seconds with a
vulnerable woman who was threatening suicide is not acceptable."

An inquest into Ms Nadin's death returned a verdict of accidental
death contributed to by neglect.

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To claim that the inspector acted as he did because of "inexperience,
lack of training or the fact he had worked long hours" is simply
making excuses for his having cancelled patrols that might have saved
the life of that unfortunate woman.

Isn't it the job of the so-called "Independent" Police Complaints
Commission to investigate and report on complaints made against the
police?  Don't the Police Federation normally seek to provide
excuses?  Or have the two been merged?

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date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:15:15 -0700 author: unknown