Superintendent Ian Palmer, of Greater Manchester Police.
Man spends 18 hours in police cell and has his DNA taken for ‘dropping an apple core’. Read it here.
I shall leave it up to you to read this item. Suffice it to say that;
The villain was a 54 year old.
It took one of our much vaunted Community Support plonkers to initiate this action.
It took FIVE police officers to effect this arrest.
The 54 year old denies the alleged offence.
He was arrested for ‘obstructing police’ - presumably for failing to provide name & address.
He was locked in a horrible cell for EIGHTEEN HOURS, his family frantically trying to trace him.
The alleged offence that he was arrested for was dropped, thus this would seem to have been merely an excuse for the incarceration.
Palmer said, “Littering is an offence. We work tirelessly to ensure the streets are not only safe but also clean.”
One reader commented; “Superintendent Palmer - you really need to grow up and focus on the serious side of your job. Not only does your comment appear fatuous but it brings ridicule upon your conscientious colleagues. I cannot remember a time when public esteem and estimation of the police force was so low. Yes, working tirelessly to protect the streets from apple cores is laudable but I somehow feel that the public - who pay you, have different views as to what you should be ‘tirelessly’ achieving.”
- Jd, London UK
I think that says it all, really.
