Maggie Oliver
@MaggieOliverUK • 104,642 subscribers
Former GMP Detective. Founder @TMOFCharity. Programme Consultant Drama Three Girls. Victims Advocate. Author. Fighting for justice. #TheyKnew
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An interview with Peter Cardwell on Talk yesterday following Jess Phillip’s comments in the House of Commons…. Empty promises, words, more rhetoric and no action! Listen here to what I said. Lots more to say but I only had about 5 minutes… The evidence has existed for YEARS Nobody has ever wanted or wants to hold those guilty of gross misconduct in public office to account. I’ve spent 12 years of my life fighting for this and trying to convince successive governments and public bodies and Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to act. Without success! Finally realising it would never happen, I took matters into our my own hands and set up a limited company Action for Accountability Ltd with several others (survivors and good brains) to be Directors with me. We’ve engaged barristers and lawyers to gather evidence to take this forward, because I don’t for one single second believe the government or Crown Prosecution Service will ever do this for us! It’s a marathon and not a sprint though, but the work is ongoing. #TheyKnew
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Last year we The Maggie Oliver Foundation were supporting several survivors who had been unlawfully strip searched, unlawfully arrested and treated inhumanely by Greater Manchester Police . We had repeatedly highlighted these cases through the complaints system with Greater Manchester Police and Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, but our calls for action fell on deaf ears. We therefore spoke to Sky News who did a great expose of what was going on. Once the media were involved Mayor of Greater Manchester I believe felt he had no choice but to announce another independent review, this time led by Vera Baird DBE KC with whom we worked. We supported 5 victims through the whole process and their evidence was critical in the final report, which heard from 15 victims in the end. Her report said the treatment of these women (and 2 men) was BARBARIC, and she actually made 40 recommendations. Many of the victims made serious complaints to Greater Manchester Police Last week a report was published described in the video below. To the best of my knowledge only ONE of the 15 victims of Baird have had any outcome to their complaint, 18 months after submission! And that response was a whitewash, woefully inadequate for the treatment she received. Not ONE officer has ever been disciplined, sacked or held accountable for their BARBARIC treatment. 14 victims still no closure! So forgive me for being angry and disillusioned that here we have a tick box PR Exercise before the victims themselves have even had any closure. Furthermore their voices form no part in this “report”, a back slapping exercise in my opinion. In fact many improvements mentioned here should be a given anyway- sanitary products for females in custody, female officers, female and child cells etc etc I welcome no more “welfare strip searches” but my take is that these should be extremely rare anyway and in the cases we were involved in they were simply used as a tool in the abuse of power. On a more positive note though I do feel Greater Manchester Police are much more willing to engage/work with us under the new Chief than his predecessor Ian Hopkins or Peter Fahy but I’m disappointed that we have this “report” published before the victims have even had any meaningful closure. To me it feels like putting the “cart before the horse” and the wrong way round altogether, and that is a big step backwards imo.
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