As a former Special Branch Counter Terrorism Intelligence Detective who acted as an examining officer at Heathrow Airport within Scotland Yard, I more than most know of the positives and negatives of this unique and powerful UK legislation under the Terrorism Act 2000. Part of my court challenge against the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service at…
Having drafted a blog earlier about the stopping of David Miranda the partner of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald who was stopped a few days ago under UK terror laws, it came to me whilst in the shower that … retaliation is sweet, well, for some. When the establishment like the Government and the Metropolitan…
It’s the issue of unaccountability within the MPS I am challenging, as, there is ‘none’. The leaders set the culture.
Home Affairs Committee Written evidence submitted by Kevin Maxwell [LSP 47] I. Introduction Kevin Maxwell is black, gay and a former officer of the Metropolitan Police Service’s (MPS’) Special Operations 15 Directorate (SO15). SO15 is a specialist, elite unit with “expertise in intelligence analysis and development, investigation and operational support activity”. It has the ultimate responsibility…
The GO HOME or FACE ARREST vans by the UK Conservative Government (oh, and the ‘Liberal’ Democrats), are EVERYTHING that is nasty about the British Tories. Ethnic minorities are often told to GO HOME, even when they are born here. At least the Conservatives have the Gay VOTE now though. All is well.
is like mine with my husband’s. Racism and the police: an insider’s view The culture of racism persists, swallowing good people and bad, says Leroy Logan, who has just left the Metropolitan police after 30 years in the job ~ The Guardian.
Same-sex unions were started by the Labour Party, not the Tories. The Conservatives just finished off, what had already been started. Tory gloating about getting this through is making me nauseous. Gay people change things, not politicians. Forgive the past, but, let’s not forget it and what many gay people went through because who and…
I was asked yesterday by the London Evening Standard to comment on the Independent Police Complaints Commission’s report last week, which stated racism within the Metropolitan Police was ‘toxic’. Striving to sum up my thoughts and feelings to do with race within Scotland Yard in 200 words wasn’t an easy task, but it went like…
Today, both the Hackney Gazette and Islington Gazette feature me in their ‘Who’s Who’ page because of My Fight for Justice. After reading Syma Mohammed’s piece about me, I felt a lump in my throat. It’s strange, it’s like I am reading a not-so happy tale of someone else’s life. But, it’s mine. I know many…
Today, the Independent Police Complaints Commission and I use the term ‘independent’ extremely loosely published a(nother) report stating that the Metropolitan Police Service fails to deal with race, racism and racists and that this was toxic. Shock, horror. This has to be the most underrated statement of the year, and there’s been some. Scotland Yard is incapable…
There’s much talk in the UK at the moment about State Benefits, which has seen Prime Minister David Cameron send a tweet to a ‘spoof’ Iain Duncan Smith (Work and Pensions Secretary) Twitter account. I came across an ironic and iconic Blue Plague picture for the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. My first thought was, he…
In the third and last of my connected blog posts, it’s sad to think that back when I was 23 I started my dream job as a Police Officer and 11-years later racism and homophobia would drive me out. I remember joining the service for what I believed it stood for, in the public good.…
For some time now, I have tried to keep private as best I can to avoid further humiliation that I have been living in a hostel since the beginning of the year as a result of My Fight for Justice against the Metropolitan Police. I knew though that, it was eventually going to come out. I…
I am deeply grateful to my Member of Parliament Emily Thornberry – the Shadow Attorney General – for supporting me in my evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee inquiry into ‘Leadership and Standards in the Police’. The Commons Select Committee published its report yesterday 1 July 2013, coinciding with my appearance on…
ITV have confirmed I will be on ‘Daybreak’ tomorrow morning at 6.50am with Keith Vaz MP, Chair of the Home Affairs Committee to talk about ‘Leadership and Standards in the Police’. My being invited on to the breakfast programme to coincide with the publication tomorrow 1 July 2013 of the select committee’s report into leadership and…
My Guardian comment on Undercover Policing and Rape …As a former Police Detective dealing with rape offences against women, men and children, Vera Baird is right – the police are on sticky ground, and it will be of huge interest to many what the courts decide – putting the trauma of the victims to one side, who should always…