Trouble at t' mill

[RVDT]

Helicopter cops 'used chopper's thermal imaging camera to record couples HAVING SEX and a page 3 model sunbathing naked' (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7074623/Five-helicopter-cops-used-choppers-thermal-imaging-camera-to-record-couples-HAVING-SEX-and-a-page-3-model-sunbathing-naked.html)



Aye up!!

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[Spunk]

"... his bitter ex-wife took revenge and contacted professional standards."
There is nothing more cruel than the bitter revenge of an ex.😈

[evil7]

What do you need a thermal camera for if you want to record somebody sunbathing? :-)

[Fareastdriver]

In the early seventies 'black light' the infra red version of Nightsun was introduced. It required trialling before it could be released to service so it had to be flown and operated extensively in the dark.
This was in the middle of July in Southern England.

We would take off at about 23.00hrs and head south from Odiham towards the downs and the coast to avoid street lights etc. The RHS pilot and operating crewman would be on goggles and the LHS safety pilot would monitor what the helicopter was doing.

The number of times the random scanning would pick up a couple in embarrassing positions were uncountable and the crewman and RHS pilot would be goggling the scene with the LHS pilot pleading to have a go at the goggles.

Meanwhile down below.
"There's a helicopter up there!"
"Don't worry, they can't see anything; it's dark."

[whoknows idont]

What do you need a thermal camera for if you want to record somebody sunbathing? :-)

My thoughts exactly!

@FED: Where you LHS or RHS?

[GoodGrief]

Murphy and JAFO did it 35 years ago...:p

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF_dvIYBhow

[Super VC-10]

Especially if you're the fuzz...

Five in court over South Yorkshire Police helicopter sex films - BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-36259647)

[Ascend Charlie]

Ahhh, back in the Bad Old Days it was only the observer in the back seat with the gyro-stabilised binoculars who got to see the naughty bits.

[twinstar_ca]

lmao!!! puts a WHOLE new meaning on JAFO!!!!

[airpolice]

Whatever next?

Early 1994 Bacon Butty scandal surfaces. Merseyside Police confirm investigating allegations of cops having been fed by grateful shop owners.

In other news, Lancashire ask Cumbria to look into allegations that officers accepted a free ice cream on Blackpool beach sometime in 1976 heatwave.

[[email protected]]

But, coming straight after the Hillsborough findings and the Rochdale abuse fiasco, it is more negative press that I suspect the South Yorks Police could well do without.

[Skycop]

Anyone got the address of the nuddie sunbathing page 3 model? ;)

[airpolice]

Crab, the timing might be everything here.

This is a Police service which employed a Media Officer on a salary of more than £1,000 a week to place news items with a favourable slant in the press, to skew the force's image in relation to Hillsborough.

I suspect that they might have spent the last week scouring the offices, looking for a story to show that they are being hard on bad cops.

[Lokon]

Anyone got the address of the nuddie sunbathing page 3 model? .......

Letsby Ave, Sheffield

[ShyTorque]

That was the original address of the South Yorks Police air support base, don't think she'd be there! ;)

[SilsoeSid]

Anyone got the address of the nuddie sunbathing page 3 model? .......

Probably, yet it won't be publicised ... unlike the names, faces and addresses of all the accused, which beggars belief in these times of heightened security :ugh:

Isis: 'Every UK Police Officer is a Terrorist Target' Warning (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-every-uk-police-officer-terrorist-target-warning-1469467)

Isis: 'Every UK Police Officer is a Terrorist Target' Warning

Police officers have been told to be vigilant "for their own personal safety" following a rise in the terror threat from "substantial" to "severe".

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) offered advice to 130,000 officers across the UK as the threat towards police has "heightened".

The advice was also given following the arrests of four people in London on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of terror acts.

Whitehall officials have said they believe the men may have been planning an "Isis-related" terrorist attack in the UK.

National Policing Lead for Counter-Terrorism, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley added: "The threat level to police officers and staff has been heightened, but we are used to confronting risk and danger, this is what we do on a daily basis, and we are well trained.

"We are informing our officers and staff of the heightened risk and reminding them to remain vigilant and alert to any possible dangers. We are asking them to follow existing policies and good practice. Measures are being put in place to increase the vigilance of officers and staff.

[[email protected]]

Airpolice - yes, point taken but, when all the stories show your officers in a bad light, giving more of the same isn't really a good news story - the pursuit of Cliff Richard might be more in that vein.

[SLF3]

I don't think the flying voyeurs need to be particularly concerned over the court case. Here is the 'punishment' deemed appropriate for tasering a blind pensioner carrying a white stick.....

Tasered blind man: PC Stuart Wright ordered to apologise - BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-26729965)

We live in a strange world.

[helicopter-redeye]

Hillsborough findings and the Rochdale abuse fiasco, it is more negative press that I suspect the South Yorks Police could well do without.

Has S Yorks been expanded to include Rochdale?

[SilsoeSid]

Haven't heard much of this and you may notice, no addresses published in this case ...!

Acting South Yorkshire police chief steps down over conduct questions | UK news | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/28/new-south-yorkshire-police-chief-hillsborough-dawn-copley-offers-resign-over-conduct)

The acting chief constable of South Yorkshire police, who on Wednesday (27 April) replaced David Crompton following the Hillsborough inquest findings, has stepped down after it emerged her conduct at a previous force was being investigated.

South Yorkshire police force has been left without a chief constable for the second time in less than 48 hours after the Hillsborough inquest findings, as it emerged that its deputy chief constable Dawn Copley was appointed despite having declared that she was being investigated over her conduct with her previous force, Greater Manchester police (GMP).

Copley’s conduct is being investigated by GMP, which confirmed “an independent investigation was undertaken by Kent police following a number of allegations”. According to reports this involved a group of senior officers who were accused of “corrupt practice”.

Copley joined South Yorkshire police force in September as deputy chief constable. Prior to that she had been assistant chief constable at GMP since 2010, where she was also head of the force’s professional standards board.

[mickjoebill]

They could be in more trouble if the video was copied and or "distributed".

Does video of an identifiable person fall under the uk data protection act? If so have the unit managers failed in their duty to protect the data?

S67. Voyeurism
"The offence of voyeurism covers cases where someone who has a reasonable expectation of privacy is secretly observed."


Mickjoebill

[Flying Lawyer]

mickjoebillThe offence of voyeurism covers cases where someone who has a reasonable expectation of privacy is secretly observed.


The law:

It is a prerequisite of all offences created by Section 67 (Voyeurism) that the activity was "for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification".
ie Unless activity was for that purpose, no offence under Section 67 is committed.
The Prosecution have to prove that was the purpose.

NB:
The defendants in this case have not been charged with voyeurism.

[Rotate too late]

FL,
does that sexual gratification have to be at the time of recording, rather awkward cockpit environment if that is the case no?!! :*

mickjoebill


The law:

It is a prerequisite of all offences created by Section 67 (Voyeurism) that the activity was "for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification".

ie Unless activity was for that purpose, no offence under Section 67 is committed.

[Flying Lawyer]

Rotate too late

Section 67 Voyeurism created 4 different offences:

(1) A person commits an offence if —
(a) for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, he observes another person doing a private act, and
(b) he knows that the other person does not consent to being observed for his sexual gratification.

(2) A person commits an offence if —
(a) he operates equipment with the intention of enabling another person to observe, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, a third person (B) doing a private act, and
(b) he knows that B does not consent to his operating equipment with that intention.

(3) A person commits an offence if —
(a) he records another person (B) doing a private act,
(b) he does so with the intention that he or a third person will, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, look at an image of B doing the act, and
(c) he knows that B does not consent to his recording the act with that intention.

(4) A person commits an offence if he instals equipment, or constructs or adapts a structure or part of a structure, with the intention of enabling himself or another person to commit an offence under subsection (1).

NB The defendants in this case have not been charged with voyeurism.

All five face charges of Misconduct in Public Office.

In brief summary, that offence is committed when: a public officer acting as such
wilfully neglects to perform his duty and/or wilfully misconducts himself
to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public's trust in the office holder
without reasonable excuse or justification.


It is a 'common law' offence. ie It is not defined in a statute.
The Law Commission is currently considering whether it should be.