Yesterday’s Guardian newspaper included an editorial entitled Plebgate: stop digging . This editorial contains two recommendations, both directed at the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW):
- that the Federation should drop its challenge aimed at preventing the IPCC from reopening the investigation into the meeting between Andrew Mitchell and his local PFEW representatives;
- and that it should stop funding PC Toby Rowland’s libel action against Mr Mitchell.
On twitter I said that, in terms of political awareness, I considered this to be good advice, adding the caveat that “if I were a member of @PFEW_HQ, I would disagreeâ€.
I said this from a non-policing perspective but with some appreciation of the pain that the chain of plebgate-related incidents has caused to the vast majority of police officers. It seems to me that the public have had their fill of plebgate, that the position espoused by aggrieved politicians is in the ascendency and that the press laps up every opportunity to criticise this most...
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