Trevortt
20-09-2008, 10:09 AM
Greater Manchester Police have arrested a mother of five and taken samples of her DNA and fingerprints — all because her young daughter placed her ‘Golly’ doll on show in the window!
A few weeks ago, we drew attention to the decline of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) from an effective professional police force into little more than a showcase for politically-correct posturing.
With this ‘Golly Crime’ arrest, it now seems that GMP have plummeted to a new low point in their keen rivalry with the Metropolitan Police for the accolade of Britain’s most risible police force.
According to the Manchester Evening News, Amanda Schofield, 38, from Stockport was quizzed by police on suspicion of “racially-aggravated” public disorder after the Golly doll was put in the window by her young daughter, who found it in a bag of toys.
Amanda Schofield was released without charge after being questioned, but has been forced to sell the toy because of the incident.
Amanda is reported as saying: “I feel like a criminal for something my daughter did. I just can’t believe that I got arrested for a petty thing like that. I know that some people don’t like the toy, which is why I took it off the window sill, but I don’t think they are offensive. It’s just a toy. My daughter is really upset that I had to sell it.”
Amanda claims she removed the toy from the window after noticing it while putting her daughter to bed, only to be visited by police later that evening and notified of the complaint from a neighbour. She says she received a phone call nine days later asking her to attend Cheadle Heath Police Station, where she was arrested. She has since been informed that no further action will be taken by police.
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police, seemingly busting with pride at his force’s achievement, reportedly said: “Police received a report that an item deemed to be offensive was placed in the window of a house on Borrowdale Road.”
This may all sound like a joke, but of course it is desperately serious. Quite apart from the alarm and distress inflicted by GMP officers on the mother involved, this sort of nonsense is reducing one of Britain’s largest police forces into a laughing stock, which commands neither confidence nor respect from the populace it purports to serve.
In contrast to their hyperactive zeal when it comes to detecting ‘Golly Crime’, Greater Manchester Police are failing abjectly in what should be their main priority: upholding law and order.
The local police authority recently branded Greater Manchester Police’s performance as “unacceptable” after the force failed to meet three-quarters of its targets. In one very stark example of policing failure, nobody has yet been charged with the racist murder of young white lad David Lees, nearly two years after his tragic death.
BNP Regional Voices reported on the killing of David Lees here (http://regionalnews.bnp.org.uk/bnp-north-west-england-region/a-year-without-justice-for-david-lees_1878.html).
All in all, never was the old adage about “lunatics taking over the asylum” more aptly applied than to the antics of the senior officers of Greater Manchester Police.
Source (http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/09/manchester-%E2%80%93-proud-police-make-%E2%80%9Cgolly-crime%E2%80%9D-arrest/)
GMP - pronounced ‘Gump’ as in Forest. Well I doubt the ‘muslim police’ factions of Great Britain will issue a fatwa against the ‘Golly’ as the koran/hadith calls blacks ’slaves’ and ‘pug nosed raisin heads’. The ‘GUMP’ should really turn their attention towards far more threatening elements that are unfortunately in our society and stop messing around with this kind of nonsense.
A few weeks ago, we drew attention to the decline of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) from an effective professional police force into little more than a showcase for politically-correct posturing.
With this ‘Golly Crime’ arrest, it now seems that GMP have plummeted to a new low point in their keen rivalry with the Metropolitan Police for the accolade of Britain’s most risible police force.
According to the Manchester Evening News, Amanda Schofield, 38, from Stockport was quizzed by police on suspicion of “racially-aggravated” public disorder after the Golly doll was put in the window by her young daughter, who found it in a bag of toys.
Amanda Schofield was released without charge after being questioned, but has been forced to sell the toy because of the incident.
Amanda is reported as saying: “I feel like a criminal for something my daughter did. I just can’t believe that I got arrested for a petty thing like that. I know that some people don’t like the toy, which is why I took it off the window sill, but I don’t think they are offensive. It’s just a toy. My daughter is really upset that I had to sell it.”
Amanda claims she removed the toy from the window after noticing it while putting her daughter to bed, only to be visited by police later that evening and notified of the complaint from a neighbour. She says she received a phone call nine days later asking her to attend Cheadle Heath Police Station, where she was arrested. She has since been informed that no further action will be taken by police.
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police, seemingly busting with pride at his force’s achievement, reportedly said: “Police received a report that an item deemed to be offensive was placed in the window of a house on Borrowdale Road.”
This may all sound like a joke, but of course it is desperately serious. Quite apart from the alarm and distress inflicted by GMP officers on the mother involved, this sort of nonsense is reducing one of Britain’s largest police forces into a laughing stock, which commands neither confidence nor respect from the populace it purports to serve.
In contrast to their hyperactive zeal when it comes to detecting ‘Golly Crime’, Greater Manchester Police are failing abjectly in what should be their main priority: upholding law and order.
The local police authority recently branded Greater Manchester Police’s performance as “unacceptable” after the force failed to meet three-quarters of its targets. In one very stark example of policing failure, nobody has yet been charged with the racist murder of young white lad David Lees, nearly two years after his tragic death.
BNP Regional Voices reported on the killing of David Lees here (http://regionalnews.bnp.org.uk/bnp-north-west-england-region/a-year-without-justice-for-david-lees_1878.html).
All in all, never was the old adage about “lunatics taking over the asylum” more aptly applied than to the antics of the senior officers of Greater Manchester Police.
Source (http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/09/manchester-%E2%80%93-proud-police-make-%E2%80%9Cgolly-crime%E2%80%9D-arrest/)
GMP - pronounced ‘Gump’ as in Forest. Well I doubt the ‘muslim police’ factions of Great Britain will issue a fatwa against the ‘Golly’ as the koran/hadith calls blacks ’slaves’ and ‘pug nosed raisin heads’. The ‘GUMP’ should really turn their attention towards far more threatening elements that are unfortunately in our society and stop messing around with this kind of nonsense.