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Detectives said to face public ordeal

01 January 1991

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Detectives said to face public ordeal
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A team of West Yorkshire detectives investigating allegations
of criminal or disciplinary offences within the West Midlands
Serious Crime Squad are facing attacks and `guilt by
association' by both the public and members of the police
force. Although the detectives had been removed from public
contact so as to diminish any chance of further harassment, the
detectives have complained that the isolation has placed
tremendous pressure on them, their careers, and their families.
The West Yorkshire detectives are investigating 705
complaints made by 85 people against the West Midlands Serious
Crime Squad. Police Federation chairman Alan Eastwood, who is
supporting the detectives in their investigation, stressed that
although rude, arrogant, and racist officers within the West
Midlands Serious Crime Squad were in a minority, `the state of
relations between the police and public today is, in large
part, due to the damage they have caused.' (Oldham Evening
Chronicle 20.9.90)

IRR Police-Media Bulletin No 64. Institute of Race Relations,
2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS

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