Hot Off The Press: Copper Stopper!

I have written before about my admiration for Rob Warner of the ‘Crimebodge’ website and You Tube channel, who has for over a decade been shining a spotlight on crucial issues of Police misconduct and civil rights violations.

I am doubly pleased therefore to be able to tell you that Rob’s new book explaining the laws that govern – or should govern – the Police, and what you can do about it if they are broken, is now out and can be purchased via this link: https://starchamber.co.uk/.

One for all of my readers’ Christmas lists, I would say, and to further whet your appetites, I here present, with Rob’s permission, my foreword to the book-

As a solicitor who specialises in actions against the Police, I have long admired Rob Warner’s YouTube channel “Crimebodge” in which he highlights Police misconduct, in order to educate members of the public as to their essential rights and thereby ensure that those with power over others never break free from the gravitational pull of proper accountability – and at the same time he also, unashamedly, entertains.

Rob is a champion of a healthy and fair-mindedly sceptical, but not cynical, approach towards Police powers and practices, helping to shed the light of the modern day on the remnants of the bad old world of paternalistic Police corruption. The excellently-curated Crimebodge videos help to tame Police power and restrain future abuses and to encourage those who have been wronged to take action in the form of a complaint and/or civil claim. By exposing what really goes on, on the front lines of the ‘Thin Blue Line’, they also play a crucial role in ensuring that the clients who I represent will be given a fair hearing by judges and juries, in an ever-more transparent society.

The book that you now hold in your hand is an essential companion piece to Rob’s video blogs, a ready- reference ‘bible’ of Police powers (and those of other ‘agents of the State’) – their uses and abuses, their limitations and the laws that govern them, all written in a highly engaging and accessible style. As a solicitor, I am very proud to be a member of the legal profession but when it comes to textbooks on their areas of practice, most lawyers either can’t or won’t communicate in a clear and concise style, or sufficiently ‘lift the lid’ on the mechanisms of how the law works in practical terms. Rob, on the other hand, has done just that in this passionate and eloquent work.  

Investing your time in reading this book will, as I have indicated above, entertain you; it will also allow you to better understand the laws of our country in this complex domain, and how the Police do (or do not) implement their powers; when you should – and shouldn’t – question such powers, and what to do if you believe your civil rights have been infringed. Everyone who reads this book is adding to the ‘knowledge base’ amongst the general population which provides that gravitational pull of ‘accountability’ that is crucial in a democratic society and which, indirectly but indeed, helps the Police, through the very act of pushing back against misconduct and holding rogue officers to account, to fulfil their founding purpose of ‘Policing by Consent’ – the consent of wider society, the consent of the governed.

Consent requires knowledge; and this book gives you that knowledge.

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