WeAreFairCop

We are a group of gender critical lawyers, police officers, writers & professionals dedicated to upholding Articles 8-11 ECHR & removing politics from policing.

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

Excellent news that permission is granted - very troubling to understand Wiltshire’s ‘defence’. In essence that its ’duty’ to be inclusive (of one group) beats its duty to be impartial. This is a serious concern.

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

Permission granted in Judicial Review application against @WiltshirePolice for unlawful breach of its statutory duty of impartiality by wearing Progress Pride colours.

But some really worrying comments in Wiltshire's defence, including a suggestion that there is a hierarchy of crimes that the police will investigate and they 'must' show their support for one community above all others by wearing its colours.

I will look forward to these arguments being fully explored in the substantive hearing - likely Oct/Nov

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

We look forward to learning more about Lynsay Watson’s arguments for why the police should wave a flag for him and no one else.

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

Watson emailed the court at 9.55am at the permission hearing asking the Judge to consider posts of mine from 2022 where he alleged I called trans people paedophiles. Of course I did not. The Judge declined to engage.

As I have previously said, I am delighted for Watson to intervene. It is a far more efficient way to prove the sheer malevolent idiocy of these men, to let them show others in their own words, as Mr Tempest is proving so clearly.

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

Enjoy the reaping!

[Audrey Ludwig MBE @AudreySuffolk]

The wording of the new Conversion Practices Bill is a worry. I can envisage trans activists repeatedly reporting sex realists to the police https://t.co/u3qVAONAx3

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

It sounds as if a lot of urgent capacity assessments are needed. How can these people safely leave their houses without an adult carer?

[Michael Blackley @Mike_Blackley]

Nearly one in three MSPs and their staff claim they don’t know what toilet to use since new rules were introduced at the Scottish Parliament determining access by biological sex. https://t.co/JHMtsMkHno

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

Grovelling, fawning, politics from @WMPolice in support of the Pride movement. Sickening stuff🤮

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

Ross on Wye - uniformed police officer marching with flag. Please let us know if you have any more evidence of this behaviour.

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

@lottalottebotte Never? Agree it’s hard to see when it’s justified but not sure about ‘never’.

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

We try to avoid commenting on short clips without seeing the wider context. Part of being a police officer means you sometimes have to use force to stop something worse happening. This is exactly why the police are subject to a statutory duty of impartiality - they have significant powers.

To claim the police have at the same time a ‘duty’ to support some groups over others puts all their operations at risk.

[BettyBoo @BettyBoochichi2]

A review of video footage that appeared to show South Yorkshire police officers shoving and drawing batons and stun guns on teenage girls has found the “the use of force was proportionate, necessary, and justified to keep all involved safe”.

South Yorkshire police initially described the footage as appearing “nothing short of shocking” but a review by its professional standards department found that while there “is an opportunity for learning around de-escalation” the actions were appropriate.

The footage, widely shared on social media over the weekend, shows officers being confronted by a number of girls dressed up for a night out before one of the officers appears to shove one of the teenagers and then draws his baton.

An onlooker can be heard to say: “Why’s he squaring up to them?” as the incident quickly develops and some of the teenagers end up falling to the ground, with one landing against a police car as two officers point stun guns at the group. One of the officers appears to hit out at one of the girls as she lunges towards him.

The clip shows at least six officers attended the incident, with several male officers involved in the confrontation with the girls.

In an initial statement, the force said “the short clip on social media of the police response to an incident in Rotherham over the weekend appears nothing short of shocking” and that the professional standards department would carry out a review.”

In a statement released on Tuesday evening, however, the force said: “As is often the case, the clip which has been posted on social media shows only a few seconds of a much longer police response to a 999 call – reporting a fight involving many young people. Having viewed the clip in isolation, it is understandable that local and wider communities have some concerns.”

“Our Professional Standards Department has now reviewed all available footage, including body worn video, and written accounts from all officers. The assessment has determined that there is an opportunity for learning around de-escalation but, considering what happened before and during the clip, the use of force was proportionate, necessary, and justified to keep all involved safe.”

Before the review was concluded, the mayor of South Yorkshire, Oliver Coppard, said he was “appalled” by the footage.

He told ITV News: “I’ve asked the police, the chief constable, as a matter of urgency, to review the evidence, and then if the highest standards of police conduct have not been met, then to take swift action.”

“I would expect the chief constable to take the strongest possible action against the officers if they are indeed found to have done wrongdoing. They have to look at the whole evidence – I don’t want to prejudge what the whole evidence might show – and sometimes clips on social media can be misleading.”

“But on the face of what I’ve seen, I was appalled by it.”

South Yorkshire’s deputy mayor for policing and crime, Kilvinder Vigurs, said she was horrified by the footage of the incident, which took place in the Rawmarsh area of Rotherham.

“It is shocking and I know people will be distressed by it,” she said.

Vigurs said the public must have confidence that policing was fair and accountable, “especially when it involves young people”, and that when force was used “it must be done reasonably and proportionately”.

In its statement, the force said the public’s trust and confidence in policing was dependent on “openness and accountability”.

“As such, while this incident did not meet the national criteria for independent assessment, we took the unprecedented step of requesting peer review from another police force. The review upheld the determination.”

Link to the article: https://t.co/qcWtTREMIX

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

@NoisyNeba Yes. We are supported by people from a very wide range of backgrounds. Because the police matter to all of us.

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

@I_Am_Victim @NoisyNeba ? You are of course entitled to your opinion. Seems a little odd to complain that a group of people with multiple views has been able to work together to achieve significant success. What is wrong with people having different views?

[Victoria @doubleMeh22]

@WeAreFairCop Still lots to do 🙄

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Well said that woman

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

@NoisyNeba It matters very much to me what I think. Rather more doubtful a group of Muslim teenage girls would be out getting pissed.

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

It took 12 years, huge amounts of patient work by many people, mainly women, media attention, ultimately a court case and, most always unforgiveably, countless women prisoners being used as collateral damage.

But the 'strategising' ends here today.

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

The work continues….

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

So pleased to see my local ambulance service has a new "Pride ambulance" - funded by trade unions @unisontheunion and @GMB_union.

Apparently it's been specially designed to reflect South East Coast Ambulance Service's commitment to "inclusive patient care" and celebrating diversity.

If they didn't have an ambulance covered in Pride branding, I'd probably have assumed they were all bigots who didn't care about LGBT people.

I'm sure many female nurses, paramedics and other healthcare workers will be delighted to learn union funds have been spent on this venture.

Particularly given that both unions have been actively campaigning against the new EHRC guidance designed to help organisations implement single-sex spaces for women following last year's Supreme Court ruling.

The ambulance will apparently be touring Pride events throughout the summer before becoming fully operational in September.

Because nothing says commitment to patient care quite like a rainbow ambulance.

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

@LostTransport I think this is the core of the problem. Difficult to wear two hats. Difficult to be a cuddly neighbourhood police and a baton wedding police. De escalation only works if you have some authority.

[Linzi 🖤🤍 @RightNUFC]

Because of me and @WeAreFairCop 😆😆😆

You’re welcome 😆🤣

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

Rejecting a political ideology sounds a good way of restoring the public’s trust in police impartiality. It doesn’t mean an embrace of ‘anti-woke’. It means that such concepts are irrelevant to policing.

[Lee Broadbent @leembroad]

I’m not convinced that declaring oneself, or at least continually aligning oneself, to the title of being ‘anti woke’ (whatever that is) is the bastion of policing’s demonstrable impartiality that he seems to think it is?

Such a declaration is simply an alignment with a counter political argument to the same broad topic.

Equally, fully accepting and committing to imminent the policing race action plan in 2022 - acknowledging its importance in providing the framework in which to better understand community needs - only now to seemingly row back as the political wind changes, is not ,dare I say, strong leadership.

https://t.co/w2qpUCu1zM

[Rick Prior @mpfchairman]

He signed-up to the @PoliceChiefs National Police Race Action Plan (PRAP) and failed to realise how it fatally conflicts with the 5th Peelian principle - or he did realise and was indifferent.

I first read the PRAP when it was launched in Sept 2024 and I realised this immediately; indeed, I mentioned it as an example of politicisation within policing during an interview with @ThatAlexWoman at that time. It was obvious.

Prior to the successful judicial reviews supported by @SVPhillimore @WeAreFairCop & @HarryTheOwl101 challenging the lack of demonstrable impartiality by the police, why wasn't he out there saying what he's saying now?

It's easy to be brave and wise after the event. Not so easy to challenge or support a challenge when you know it's wrong, but before you know the courts and / or public opinion are on your side - that takes true courage - something that I've simply not seen from him, or any other chief constable for that matter.

Also, let's not forget his public comments after the initial footage was circulating from the Manchester Airport incident:

“It is a source of profound regret that this week’s incident at Manchester Airport has caused shock and upset in some of our communities..."

In his initial weasel worded statement, he made no mention of any profound regret that three of his officers suffered significant injuries by these thugs, including PC Lydia Ward who was punched so violently in the face that her nose was shattered.

He would have been aware of these injuries, and he would also have been privy to, and fully briefed on the wider footage that only subsequently came into the public domain by virtue of an unofficial leak.

Another captain hindsight with no moral courage to do or say the right thing at the right time, when it's needed most.

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

We repeat. Pride has been hijacked by mentally ill men in dresses. The police seem rather slow to investigate others who made this claim.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

A Reform UK councillor has been reported to the police over comments in a leaked email opposing the flying of the Pride flag outside Warwickshire County Council’s Shire Hall headquarters.

Councillor Briggs described Pride as a “dangerous ideology”, writing: “This movement has been hijacked by groomers and mentally ill men in dresses gyrating in front of children and pushing the delusion that you can somehow change from male to female and vice versa.”

Warwickshire Pride has branded the remarks “transphobic”, demanded an apology and resignation, and labelled Briggs “unfit for the role he currently holds”.

They added: “Councillor Briggs is clearly being transphobic in his email. It is hate speech.”

The group further claimed his comments amounted to “a clear breach of the Code of Conduct”, as well as a hate crime.

The Free Speech Union is increasingly seeing Reform councillors come under attack for expressing controversial views, with Codes of Conduct being weaponised to punish and silence elected representatives.

[WeAreFairCop @WeAreFairCop]

Two tier witness statement.
Two tier justice.
Two tier grief.
https://t.co/TwugfmI5vZ