Sir Andy Cooke the chief inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services has admitted that police forces are “getting it wrong” with freedom of speech.
Sir Andy said when no crime has been committed then the twitter police knock on someone’s door to record the idiotic so-called “non-crime hate incidents.”
He said that police forces are worried if they fail to act and Sir Andy has called on the government to abolish the “non-hate crime incidents” over the freedom of speech.
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan who is not British was arrested at Heathrow Airport by armed police for expressing his freedom of speech on X whilst in America.
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Sir Andy said, “In my last inspection or one of my last inspections of the last year about activism and impartiality in policing it was quite clear that the police were getting it wrong on too many occasions in relation to what was a non-crime hate instance and what was an actual criminal offence.
“We saw many offences when we went into a number of forces where they’ve been recorded incorrectly, where they’ve been over-recorded and I think for police officers in the society we have at the moment there is a fear that if they undercook it then they will be criticised for it.
“So we did see more offences being wrongly categorised as crimes that could have been recorded as something else and some non-crime hate incidents that didn’t actually meet the definition.”
He told Times Radio, “I’m not here to say the police get it right every time. Our own inspections have shown that is quite clearly not the case and they need to get it right more often.
“But in order to do so there needs to be a clarification of the laws around a lot of these issues. A lot of the laws that policing has to use to deal with online offences were actually introduced before we saw the social media explosion.
So they are not suitable in my view and a full review of the legislation that sits around this and the removal of non-crime hate incidents will certainly make life a lot more sensible for police officers and a lot more understandable for the public.”
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