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of a hunting ban - Two chief constables voice their concern on
a ban on hunting.
Timelines -On the current Hunting
Bill, the attempts to ban hunting, and on the ban in Scotland.
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The ban has guaranteed that the time and money invested by the League
Against Cruel Sports and the RSPCA has increased animal suffering.
We told them this would happen. This rise in suffering since the ban
is the cost of ignoring that warning!
Daily Telegraph
3 May 2005.
Numerous police officers accompanied the more than 250 hunts which
took place yesterday, the first day that the sport became illegal.
Despite the friendly exchanges between officers and huntsmen and women,
the presence of the police posed a question: what public good were
they trying to uphold?
Daily Telegraph
20 February 2005.
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| Met Police accused of 'tit for tat'
hunt supporters' arrests - 4 Sept. 2005 |
The Metropolitan Police have been accused of carrying out
"tit for tat" revenge prosecutions after last year's Parliament
Square pro-hunting demonstration.
Protesters who made official complaints to the Independent Police
Complaints Commission claim that after their details were passed to
the force they were "targeted" by the Met.
Police and pro-hunt demonstrators clash at Parliament Square
Mal Williams, the master of the South Herefordshire Hunt, made two
complaints alleging that he and his kennelman, Steven Lenton, were
assaulted by officers at the demonstration on September 15.
Mr Williams, 47, suffered injuries to his hand, while Mr Lenton required
15 stitches for a head wound. Mr Williams said: "I made a complaint
to the IPCC a few days later. A few weeks afterwards a letter arrived
from the Metropolitan Police and I thought somebody was taking the
mickey.
"It said officers were coming down to Herefordshire
to arrest me. Without a shadow of a doubt they got my details from
the IPCC and wanted to target me because I had made a complaint."
Mr Williams was charged with three counts of using threatening behaviour
but in July a court cleared him of the charges. Last month he was
informed by the IPCC that his complaint would not be taken further.
"Before I complained, the police would not have known who
I was since I have no [criminal] record," he said. "But
afterwards they were turning up on my doorstep to arrest me. It was
just a trawling expedition."
Kate Lovelace, an insurance agent from Marlborough in Wiltshire who
rides with the South Dorset Hunt, was also at the demonstration and
made a formal complaint to the IPCC about police behaviour. In February
she received a letter from the Metropolitan Police telling her that
they had a warrant for her arrest.
She said: "I was surprised that I was being charged with something
then that I had allegedly done in September. I was also curious as
to how they managed to get hold of my details as I was not arrested
during the protest. They must have got them from the complaints authority."
The charges were dropped in March.
A spokesman for the IPCC said that it was duty bound to pass on complainants'
details to the police. It said, however, that it was not responsible
for what the police decided to do with the details.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "To suggest that
anyone was arrested because they had made a complaint to the IPCC
is entirely wrong. Anyone who believes this to be the case is advised
to report this to the IPCC for their investigation.
"While some people were arrested during the course of the demonstration
that day a number of others could only be arrested post-event once
their identity had been established through a variety of investigative
means."
PLEASE NOTE - © Telegraph Group
Limited 2005.
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