George Ince

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D. Moore made this Freedom of Information request to Norfolk Constabulary Automatic anti-spam measures are in place for this older request. Bail conditions were stringent and denied the four Headingley accused the right to discuss Davis's wrongful conviction in public. Changes in legislation now enable forces to continue with these investigations and, where appropriate, still hold a hearing to establish whether or not the officer would have been dismissed had they remained in the police service.

Neal Porter, from the Watton area, appeared at Norwich Crown Court today (Thursday 4 November 2021) after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to taking an indecent image of a child, distributing an image of a child and three counts of making an indecent image of a child.

Is he going to deny that the Sills report says that it would be naive to imagine that there was no connection between those two occurrences? On 8th April 1976 the then Home Secretary said that he could reopen the case on some new evidence or other consideration of substance—that is, some consideration other than new evidence. Investigation of a complaint against the police follows in many respects the same lines as a criminal investigation and it is equally undesirable that any report of the investigation of a complaint should be published. The following editorial from IOPC Director General Michael Lockwood first appeared in The Times on Friday 8 October 2021.

What I am saying is that my experience of the behaviour of the Home Office with regard to investigations into the conduct of the police gives me confidence, and gives anybody else who has any experience in these matters confidence, in the belief that the Home Office's passion for preventing the public from knowing about the peccadilloes of the occasional police officer who is corrupt overrides every other consideration in its mind, to such an extent that it becomes—I am using tough words, but they derive from experience—unscrupulous in the use of the information available to it. It has been the subject of a complaint under Section 49 of the Police Act 1964, which was investigated, as my hon.Davis received a namecheck in the Duran Duran song "Friends of Mine" on the album Duran Duran (1981): the chorus begins "Georgie Davis is coming out". That is a nice, discreet, polite, diplomatic way of saying that the Essex police picked out the bits of evidence that suited them and ignored the bits that did not suit them—in other words, that they were not carrying out their duty of seeking the truth. From our own work, more than 1,500 police officers and staff have now faced examination by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) for their conduct. One of the judges, Lord Justice Hughes, said that the conviction, based on dubious identification evidence, was unsafe but that the court was not able positively to exonerate Davis. We will continue to work normally as far as we can, but, as the situation continues to develop, the focus of the team may need to be diverted to the most important aspects of work, which may place unavoidable strain on our resources that we cannot avoid.

This exposure of the lack of credibility of the people on whose word the prosecution case was built up must constitute new evidence for my hon.In all this long argument with the Home Office, extending over several years, I have never said that George Ince is innocent of the crime for which he is serving a prison sentence. Jailing him for a total of 16 months, Judge Anthony Bate said the former police officer’s conduct was “appalling” and involved indecent images of the “gravest kind”.