20 April 2020
"Lancashire Police have launched an investigation into an officer caught on camera threatening to fabricate an offence against a young man."
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"The police force has also apologised for the unnamed officer’s “completely unacceptable” language and behaviour, as shown in a video widely shared online.
But as the Network for Police Monitoring pointed out on Twitter this type of policing is nothing new:"
Police launch investigation into officer over threat to fabricate offence (The Canary, link)
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