PC jailed for "being lazy"

There's got to be more to the story because 'He had a screwdriver, crowbar and wrench, and looked like he was trying to break in. However, he told the pair he was only trying to fix the door'.
So there was no actual evidence that he was breaking in :confused:
I'm not stupid and he looks like he was there to break in but he didn't.
That's like me being arrested when I'm getting in my car because I might break several driving laws.
 
So the guy has 6 previous Convictions and is out on the street committing another alleged break-in, who exactly is not doing their job properly, the WPC or the Courts?

Also, she wasn't jailed for laziness, she was jailed for breaking the Law, which is kind of ironic as if the Courts had bothered to jail the burglar for breaking the Law she would not have found herself in such a situation to begin with.
 
doofer said:
So the guy has 6 previous Convictions and is out on the street committing another alleged break-in, who exactly is not doing their job properly, the WPC or the Courts?

Also, she wasn't jailed for laziness, she was jailed for breaking the Law, which is kind of ironic as if the Courts had bothered to jail the burglar for breaking the Law she would not have found herself in such a situation to begin with.
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Who is to say that the courts hadn't jailed him? People do leave prison you know.

Using the defence that the burglar shouldn't have been there in the first place is IMO pathetic. If any police officer tried to use such a defence they should be immediately dismissed.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Losing her job would be enough imo
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Yep.

I'm surprised the police haven't just brushed it under the carpet tbh, I bet the place he was breaking into had CCTV footage of her apprehending him and the police were scared of the potential embarrassment if it were to be made public.
 
mmj_uk said:
Yep.

I'm surprised the police haven't just brushed it under the carpet tbh, I bet the place he was breaking into had CCTV footage of her apprehending him and the police were scared of the potential embarrassment if it were to be made public.
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They didn't brush it under the carpet because her colleague who reported the incident was a good officer and was actually doing his job. If his superiors did brush it under he'd report the offence elsewhere, the media perhaps.

She wasn't just incompetent in the decision to not arrest the burglar, she told him in the car that she couldn't be bothered, as if burglary was too low priority for her to deal with or maybe she CBA with the paperwork for such a low crime in her books I don't know.

It might not be proportionate and it will cost the tax payer a bit of extra £ to house her for a year in jail but I know if that was my shop being burgled and the crook was set free like that I'd want a strong punishment and an example made out of her.

It's harsh, but fair and I think if anyone has, or knows of someone who has been a victim of a serious crime will understand more than anyone else.
 
1 year is stupid harsh.

She obviously completely misjudged the situation/having a bad day. It's not as if someone has died here. If the burgler got caught he probably would have faced a couple of months max.

I don't think anyone would have had a problem hearing that the woman got suspended for a year or something like that... but JAIL wtf!?
 
So a person that drives down the wrong side of the motorway at 100mph and crashes into police cars and breaks several laws gets 12 months.

So this is equivalent to that :confused::rolleyes:
 
She couldn't be bothered to do her job properly and I doubt that this was the first case of her shirking her responsibilities regardless of whether she was caught before.

Im sorry but letting a criminal go free because you are delivering mail shows you just how seriously she took her job. If you don't send a strong message to the rest of the force that you must take your job seriously then you invite a whole host of problems.

Whats to stop people taking payoffs from criminals and just making up an excuse when caught. If you choose to do a job like that then you understand the responsibility it comes with and the consequences of ignoring them.
 
Well sure for some jobs it may be a bit harsh but for jobs where there is great responsibility and where peoples lives are put at risk then its pretty light tbh.
 
This isn't really the London riots, where making an example was for the good of society. Scaring the kids and making them realise that their actions could result in a penalty that will stay with them for life.

Call me naive, but the police force don't need these types of lessons. This in my opinion is a breach of human rights. The articles doesn't mention that the man even had broken into the place. She probably knew that the guy was going to get let off by our inconsistent judicial system and what's ironic is that this type of sentence proves it.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
What are we if we are constantly condemning our police force. As said, granted that she deserved a suspension.. but jail?
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She was actively negligent. She knew what kind of punishment he would be in for, he would have likely gone to jail and that suggest that his crime is serious/he's a repeat offender/dangerous. If she was unknowingly negligent, then fine, a suspension/warning, but she chose not to do it because she couldn't be bothered. If another officer was there, he'd be in jail, and this wouldn't have happened.

A short custodial sentence is warrented, I think.

And I think we should be very critical of our police force. But in circumstances such as these where they have ultimately failed to perform their duties and responsibilities.

When you choose a career such as this, where you are taking such large amounts of responsibility, it is important that you take your job seriously, and that you perform the kind of duties given to you properly.

We probably disagree, and that's fine, I'm not looking to argue with anyone, but I feel that jail is appropriate. If we want to look at hypotheticals, what if he had gone on to murder someone? We're lucky that he didn't/isn't that kind of person.
 
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Admiral Huddy said:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/873551-policewoman-jailed-for-being-too-lazy-to-arrest-a-burglar

Is it me or does this sound a bit harsh? Sure she may have "arguably" neglected her duties but she claims that she had been called elsewhere. It seems that she was well respected yet the judge appears to have made an example her...

Not sure what this achieves other than further diminishing and undermining our police force, which is pretty bad timing really. Seriously, who'd be a police officer now days when you could at some point be in a situation which results in litigation. If I make a mistake in my job i get my knucles wrapped and in the worst case I'll be dismissed.. but a custodial sentence.
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errr did you rread it or has it since changed?
Michele Selby said she was busy delivering mail to another police station and so she confiscated his tools and let him go.

The 38-year-old told the suspect he would have been arrested and would probably have gone to jail if she could have been bothered.
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When they returned to their police station, Selby dumped the man’s tools in a bin. Her colleague had not felt confident enough to challenge her at the time but told bosses later.
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What message is being sent here?
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Gross negligence/dereliction of duty (and quite possibly theft of the man's tools) will be punished?

what was she actually charged and tried for as the article doesn't say?
 
Admiral Huddy said:
What are we if we are constantly condemning our police force. As said, granted that she deserved a suspension.. but jail?
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well technically she nicked the blokes tools.

she said later that she didn't believe he was committing a crime, but had binned his tools rather than temporally stored them as evidence or even reported taking them.



If a police officer stole my tools and binned them with no chance of getting them back I'd want them charged and convicted too.





edit ahh the BBC has what she was tried for


Selby, 38, resigned from the force after being convicted of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
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which makes sense, after all if you didn't punish this severely what's to stop a copper not arresting people he knows or destroying/disposing of evidence for them as she did this bloke?



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she also lied about it later

In her evidence, Selby claimed she did not see a crowbar or wrench at the door of the restaurant, only screwdrivers, a hammer and a box of nails.
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better bbc article


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-14665556
 
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mrk said:
They didn't brush it under the carpet because her colleague who reported the incident was a good officer and was actually doing his job.
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He? (colleague PC Mechelle Maley) sounds more like a female name?. If the colleague was doing such a good job then why didn't he/she make the arrest?.
 
kedge said:
He? (colleague PC Mechelle Maley) sounds more like a female name?. If the colleague was doing such a good job then why didn't he/she make the arrest?.
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The colleague probably wasn't present at the time she took the tools?
 
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