How a dead officer’s iPhone exposed police corruption
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2022
- In 2020, retired Gwent police officer Ricky Jones took his own life. Jones’s family - who he’d subjected to years of abuse - looked through his old iPhone to try to understand more about their husband and father. But it revealed things even they were not prepared for.
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How can they be found guilty of misconduct but still allowed to retire on a full pension?!
*Corruption*
It's a joke
Precisely
Nothing will change till the good cops report on the bad ones.
Who they report to is the problem
If the police had good leadership they would.
Top down corruption . Starting with the politicians .
Yep.
Honestly there needs to be a national hotline or set of numbers that people can call to the FBI or something if it doesn't exist already to report bad cops
You'll be waiting a long time. There is no good coppers.
There is a hotline. It goes through to some good ones in other forces but in some forces it goes through to the bad ones. The dept that police’s them, PSD is the problem!
My late father was the Officer in charge of a police station. By his rules, no pregnant woman was allowed to go on patrol. Any male officer who became sexually cheeky found himself transferred within a few days. A top father too, who with Mum gave us a peaceful upbringing. Love you Dad
I'm sure he meant well but he was part of the problem. The culture of "transferring" officers who are guilty of sexual harassment/corruption etc is outrageous.....they should be sacked and investigated......not "transferred".
@@OliThaTwist I agree, but I look back at the time - the early '80s. Dad was known, when he knew a complaint was again to be withdrawn by the family victims, would take the male out of sight, give him a beating and tell that the next tine it would be harder. Clearly that did not work in most times. Dad was tormented and retired as soon as he could for a pension.
any relation to wayne couzons ?
You are very lucky. I thought that was what I was married but it was anything but. He should have had them sacked not transferred. It is part of their professional code and incumbent on them to do this .
You keep hearing talk of narcissism being tossed about. This is the real thing.
Sounds like an average Police officer
Control freaks . They aint normal love .
Who will change this ? Who investigates the police ?
The police! 😂
Police write there own IOPC complaints. Mine was done by my ex’s boss! Had it reviewed. No trace of that now! If you think anything is changing think again. Mass cover up still in 2024. This spans into other public sector areas too as they retire and go into other jobs and the corruption goes with them. If you try to fight they use your kids as weapons having brain washed them threaten you of slander! They then accuse you of abuse and do MASH referrals against you!
We need these horrendous stories put on the news when they happen, or when they surface.. Horrific goings on that need uncovering.I
Don't see the police in the same light as I once did, I used to respect the police now I question everything they do.
This is not fair on the decent officers that do serve us .
Typical copper, monster pretending to be a hero.
Apparently then its not only the metropolitan police London but the whole of the uk police that are crimnals this is appalling disgusting behavior.
I'm the ex wife of one, it's gone on for years. I new to much and was silenced. There are quite a few wife's out there. Back in the 90s no one would have believed me. They will now, perhaps I should open my can of worms. ☹️😥
West Mercia Police Hereford officers sexually assaulted and assaulted this lady. Now trying to charge her with perverting the course of justice
people living next door to cops in the uk are not one bit shocked .
This is so awfull. My heart breaks for the wife and the daughters. I myself had my two daughters with a man just remotely like that. Telling me, that he was a good man. If I said anything, that could be understood as negative towards him he would either tell me he was worth nothing og sometimes say things hinting at suicide. He would deny it if I asked him outright, but then he would hint again a few days later. "I might come back", when he drowe of to something. Even if he had the girls with him! I was scared s***less.
I told him so many times I wanted to leave. He, who was unsatisfied every time he had to take care of the kids, he would fight me for them and I knew he could make it seem he did everything at home. At this time they were 1 and 3 years old. He would want them half of the time. I couldnt imagine not being with my kids. I didnt know where to go. He never hit me or the kids.
The father had severe stomache-pains every day and our doctor couldnt find out what it was. I was afraid it would be cancer. I lost my father to cancer when I was 21.
This caried on for 1 1/2 year. I was in therapy cause I just couldnt do it anymore.
In the end I left. I was falling apart. I got a flat through my workplace. I was scared of him. So was my oldest daughter, 7 at the time. I had to wath every word coming out of my mouth, and it was still never good enough.
In public he would act absolutely normal.
Its so hard to explain to others. It took so long to understand it myself. I was living on my own since beginnig of 2010. After being afraid all of the time I later suffered from depression and later anxiety. I couldnt do my job anymore and I now work fewer hours.
In 2013 I found a good guy also divorced. He is a support to me an my kids and I love him.
I still have to deal with my ex from time to time and honestly it can still be a pain, but luckily the girls are so grown up by now, that it is not often.
I have had this house for 11 years by now and I really enjoy my garden. I have started growing some of our own food, and that is meaningfull to me. Its been a long journey. 🌱
I'm so sorry you and your children had to go through that. 😞 But I'm happy that you're in a better place now.
Tl:dr
He sounds like he had Major Depressive Disorder
Why are they allowed to retire ?
@11m so basically he was apparently working pretty much ALL the time as far as both the mothers were concerned....
Being investigated by---- the _police_ --‐- that's that then!!!
The real problem is, that within the police this is not a "one off" there is not enough vetting, plod should be assessed every year or two and get rid of the dross like Cuzens and Carrick to name just two.The irony is these two were know to the people they worked with, but did/said nothing, which makes them as bad by association.it's not a few bad apples as we are kept being told the whole barrel is rotten.
When David Aaronovitch left the Guardian was when it really started going downhill... glad he's doing alright for himself, great report!
may god, the universe, lady luck, fate or whoever else is listening, protect us and shield us from any encounters with such people, be they men like this person was, or be they women with similar personalities, mental illnesses and intentions.
Lots of women helped and protected mine who had nearly destroyed me in every way possible. I only survived because of family. Six years on after leaving him he hadn’t stopped
I'm not shocked.
Ugh I hate not knowing the punishment !!! Still investigating ugh !
Suspended on full then probably retrained or quit on full pension. So Nothing
Just your average Police Officer.
Did they use the buzz feed unsolved sound
Basically basically basically basically
The police will keep phones in future.
I’m sure they will however there’s ways around it along with getting the information without needing them phone.
Needing the phone not needing them phone
Wow. Why do women stay with such monsters
The answer is in the video. 30 years of gaslighting will make you lose confidence in your own experience..😥😥😥
Well, sometimes when they are married, especially to somebody that holds power in the community and in society, they feel like it is safer to not leave vs. what might happen to them if they do leave
Staying gives them(the abuser) power, every room has a door.
Female police officers ????
Disgusting behaviour regarding these male cops. No doubt whatsoever that it's all true. Its not the first time and it won't be the last. An institution based on lies and cover ups and anyone who dares to speak out will be made to suffer. And to top it all they expect the public to show them respect.
Classic confrontational personality disorder
Yes well the other problem is even if you are a victim of domestic abuse from someone other than a cop responding officers may be more sympathetic to the abuser than the victim maybe they don't bother enforcing protection orders either help intimidate and worsen situations because they are control freaks and sometimes criminals themselves.
Shouldn’t the IOPC be investigating this ?
IOPC . That's funny!
You act like they do any work
@@nonameh4867 They work very hard, covering up for plod!
Independent Office of Plod Coverups...
This journalist is speaking like he knew the bloke for 30 years and that he was personally there through the whole relationship
How did they know his password
a good cop is a ...........
To be fair...At least officer A sounds like a bit of a LEGEND!
@18m Officer A is no longer a Legend.......
RE: Disclaimer at the beginning
---> So... it's just about normal police precinct lingo??
I've had a female undercover drag me by the arm down a back alley and stick the lips on me. Was I tramautised? No. Was she overstepping her job description. Yes.
when the river runs red, take the back alley
Oh All Adult stuff then.. .
If they think that what’s app group and messages are bad then you don’t wanna see most lads WhatsApp groups 🤣
That stuff was minor
A lota talking but doesnt reveal much realy mainly about how he treated his family & he was a bent copper
So this man sent recordings of his wife around to her family and others. The recordings were lurid enough, we are told, to destroy her reputation.
Thus, her contacting a reporter to enumerate all these allegations against him was only to be expected. And what journalist and supervising editor of today would obey the temptation-if any😆-to doubt her? Best to just run with it.
Unfortunately such people do exist, and it sounds like there was a lot of evidence on his phone.
@@kirstinevad347 As to your first assertion: yes, certainly. As to your second: so say members of his family.
But then, "If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business." -William Makepeace Thackeray, _Vanity Fair,_ 1848
@@dixonpinfold2582 You think they manufactured recordings with his colleges? And former kolleges?
So you believe the officer, okay
@@deepaulie8701 I'm not in a position to form any such belief and my comment wasn't about him. It was about journalistic practices and integrity.
This felt very much like the invasion of a dead man’s privacy. There’s a certain amount of gallows humour that helps these cops do their job, they see the very worst aspects of humanity & sometimes I’m sure they take it home.
boring
This is someone’s life, a family that was abused by their father. Show some respect