In this case the listen being don't f*** about people with disabilities!

A few weeks ago a bent copper, whom I still have 18 active complaints against, hand delivered 100 pages of printed summons....

I obviously immediately asked for this to be provided in electronic format, for reasons of accessibility, that request was ignored.... until last night, when PC young wrote back the following:.

"Given size of file we are unable to provide a digital copy via email.

Please contact the court directly regarding arrangements at court."

Quite a few things wrong with this:

1) His language pre-supposes an electronic version already exists, as he's talking about the size of an individual file, if it was paperwork, that wouldn't make any sense.

2a) We never specified the bundle must be provided by email, the same police officer has literally hand delivered the original paperwork by walking the 40 minutes from his station to my property, so he could just as easily bring a memory stick or something.

2b) There are many, many ways in which this could be done electronically (safely and securely) for example the Axon citizen system works both ways, you can use it to send information to them and the police can use it to send information to you.

3) It's not my problem that  the bundle is over 100 pages,  it is his responsibility to make some minimal reasonable effort, which he actively avoided doing.

It is my contention that this is being done to the deliberately ensure I am at a substantial disadvantage.

.....ok now, the Equality Act 2010 covers “protected characteristics”. These are age, disability, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

If you have been certified as severely sight impaired (blind) as I have, or sight impaired (partially sighted) by a consultant ophthalmologist which I have been, then in such case I am automatically protected under the Equality Act.

So then, what is considered discrimination under the Equality Act?

Well, the Act protects us from different kinds of direct and indirect discrimination. 

Direct discriminationh is where you have been treated less favourably than another person because of your disability. 

But he part we are interested in here is indirect discrimination....

Specifically the objective total failure of police officer Young to make any reasonable adjustment.

My level of sight loss means I need help enable me to independently access, the "evidence" against me and it is his legal duty to make a good faith attempt to offer “reasonable adjustments” to make sure we are not treated less favourably than someone who doesn’t have sight loss.

For the purposes of my complaint, it is this failure to provide any consideration or reasonable adjustment by giving a blind man 100 pages of inaccessible material knowing fullwell, this puts me (a severely site impaired person) at a very considerable disadvantage as this severely restricts my being able to access won't understand these legal papers and this treatment is considered a type of discrimination!