A couple of weeks ago we lodged a an complaint online about the continuance of bail in breach of PACE.

A thoroughly stupid answer was received implying it wasn't worth investigating to which my father/carer's immediate response opened with: "This is casual and sloppy' :and went on a bit after that but the outcome was an almost immediate response of surprise that we were still unhappy but this would now be investigated under schedule three of the Police Reform Act 2002.

Why were not the regulations covered for investigations of a complaint against a police officer  being applied in any event? .... likely just more time wasting tactics....

Digging down a bit further and looking at the 2020 regulations which currently implement Schedule 3 there is a section about keeping a complainant informed  only to discover that this is the section which allows investigating officers to keep complainants in the dark until after a decision has been made by which time it's too late for any of the 'inaccurate' statements by the offending officer to be challenged.

In essence this further underlines that all these procedures are designed for the protection of individual police officers and not for the protection of the public from them..... A very convenient system for them!

However and possibly as a by product of our latest complaint the case against me has been finally dropped...after being unlawfully held on police bail for thirteen months!

More in hope than expectation, I am looking forward to the outcome of the latest complaint to see if anyone has managed to find the legal justification for the breaches of PACE to which I have been subject.

In the meantime, they still have my CCTVs DVR which has the video evidence of my very unlawful arrest, thirteen months ago.... And there's nothing to stop them atattempting another arrest on some new trumped up charge tomorrow!