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police officer, this was his bit. was always happy to get involved. I

was not frightened of arresting people, doing the job of a police

officer, rather than being somebody who stood there in a uniform.

getting involved changed his life. Phil Don CCTV, Peter and two

colleagues were called to deal with a man outside a nightclub. He had

been causing problems and we were called to do with him. He was

pushed. He stumbled and fell into his -- the road and banged his head.

He came back and started remonstrating with us. The three

officers tried to move them on so During the arrests, the man on the

poor but saw officers on the lake. It takes three officers to cover

him. There has been situations throughout my servers that have

been like that or worse. Situations like that in Whigham happen all the

time. Police found the former soldier guilty of assault.

Everything was to change, and in the end he would find himself here

in the dock. He was later complained about the way he was

arrested and appealed to his conviction. The CCTV footage was

seen again. This time the appeal judge said it was the police

officers that behaved badly and abuse their powers. Mark's

condition of assault was quashed. Police investigated how their

officers acted that night. He was trying to put his head for words to

bite me but I was pulling it back. It looks like I am hitting his head

against a fall. It shows him repeatedly hitting and punching

mark in the face. It looks like you're giving him a plethora of

punchers. You can only remember what you doing the training. We're

told to punch him in the shoulder so he would release his arm. He

released his arm enough so we could rent it out and get a calf on him.

Game over. Peter like forts and the police officers face criminal

charges. He went to trial but his colleagues were clade. -- lead.

House of policing is durability to use the minimum of force and deal

with violent situations and not lose your temper. That is the

standard that we have set. Mr Light for it has step below that standard.

The problem is that when you are there at the situation you have got

a split-second to deal with how to make a decision and you must live

with that decision. He does not matter your records of how my last

you have saved. In that situation if you break the law you might just

as likely as other citizens. We set a high standard and I do not

apologise for that. I opened and shut, it took three court cases

until the judges decided Peter had broken the law. The thing about his

case is that we know all the details. There was a trial, his

mistake and his punishment was public. Most police disciplinary

measures are kept away from the public gaze. Virtually every case

is dealt with behind closed doors. That can be very hard for those

affected by their behaviour. Was this the only place you have ever

lead? Yes. It brings back quite a few memories. Had you feel as we

walk down here? It feels weird. a bit weird. 18-year-old Aaron and

his sister Hayley were never forget the night they had to call police

from the street. I ran downstairs when I heard screaming and shouting.

Then he started to come towards me. He got in between us. From that

moment I saw that with a knife in his hands. -- my father. The men

armed with a knife was still in the house and Aaron was trying to keep

his mum alive. I was expecting the police to come straight away.

is so slow. I do not know what to do. I started to think about what

to do. Paramedics had a right, but police had not so the paramedics

were stuck outside. The police did not arrive until 90 minutes after

the first 999 call. My son Asprey was arrested. Their mother was dead.

In was too late. What the family did not know was that to ignore

pence sheer police officers were at the bottom of their street when the

children called to ask for help. The call was made at 11 minutes

past midnight. We know where the police officers were because there

was a GPS transmitter in their car. At 12 minutes past midnight, which

is one minutes later and again at quarter past midnight, we know them

in the immediate vicinity of the street. They were just down the

road. It took an inquiry by the Independent Police Complaints

Commission and that minutes later the officers refused to attend the

emergency call. If they will put in our shoes then they would want

everyone to help them. But when it came to me Naren we had nothing.

That night we only relied on each other to look after each other and

a mother. We tried to be the safe as we called during that half-hour.

Why would the officers not respond? They said they were busy on an

operation based six miles away in Northampton. They claim that they

ended up at the bottom of the road because they followed a car there.

The inquiry revealed that they did not know the registration and a

notebook showed that they hadn't deal with a single incident in the

previous six hours. Lollies Webster's father says that he is

horrified that the police Treadaway. They knew it was serious. They

should have gone. There was no two ways about it. It would not cost

them anything to have gone. Medical experts say that the ways Webster

iPod life could not have been saved. -- lollies Webster. Be forced

decide this was a case of gross misconduct. The definition of gross

misconduct it is the definition which is to be set. That is the

race the officers are facing. they lose their jobs? That was

another decision for not end ship police. -- Northamptonshire. The

police will do the evidence and the result was that the two officers

kept their jobs and receive final written warnings. It really does

not mean anything at all. they're not doing their job

properly then they should have been retrenched as punishment. They

should have lost their jobs. If they can't turn up to something so

important as that and what would they turn up to. The officers got

up incredibly lively. -- Lapsley. When it comes to misconduct cases,

police investigate themselves. The IPC have only a role in a small

numbers of very serious cases. The most they can do is identify Ms

conduct. The punishment is completely down to the individual

officers unforced. The panels which decide the outcome of misconduct

hearings almost always sits in private. Individual forces dealing

behind closed doors. This man is a lawyer who handles cases against

police. The problem is that you get in consistency. There is not

transparency in the first place, that is where there is a gap here.

There is very little evidence that lessons are being lied. Police

misconduct can be anything from rudeness to physical violence. The

police are supposed to be one of the most regulated public bodies,

but who is making sure that misconduct panels do their job?

There is no overall body that has responsibility for the police

misconduct system due other than the Home Office. Individual forces

have a role, but there is no single overarching body. Yes they should

be a body like this. How many decisions are made about police

misconduct with little or no national oversight? It is not easy

to find out. We put in Freedom of Information requests to 54 courses

of the UK and 47 of them responded. We discovered that there were 1915

guilty findings against officers on his conduct between 2008 and 2010.

382 were dismissed or required to resign. Nearly a fifth of

punishments handed down ended in officers leading be forced. --

leaving the force. There was no national oversight. What is the

loss of no single overdue? It makes consistency a problem. Guidance can

be a problem. I think it does have an impact on public confidence.

you comfortable with a system that has no national wave of the?

have three national systems. nobody looks at his conduct.

IPP c has no control. We report trains to them. Police forces

locally are aware of all the cases and complaints and take it very

seriously. Once again police forces do to make sure their offices get

it right in the first place? -- of the service. Back in Dyrham, they

are preparing for the complicated situations they may face. As the

sergeant knows, training once always protect officers from

complaints by the public. How often have complaints been made against

you? In my service, probably seven or eight times. His is that

comment? It is probably reflective. If you deal with matters of the

public in high-stress situations as a police officer you might get it

wrong. Those complaints against NT were not upheld. Almost 30,000 were

levelled at the police last year. Can offices are four to admit they

made a mistake two? A lot of officers don't trust the system. We

need a more common sense approach. Police officers are human and do

sometimes make mistakes. We must be accepting of that. That is hard

when police failures leave to tell a ball loss. Harder still when you

are let down by not only one force but four. I heard the couple up but

I did not look out the window. Sometimes you see a car and to look

at the window to see you're tears but that night I did not. -- who is

there. That is in night the man picked me up. The young girl was

picked up by 33-year-old man pretending to be a young man. That

was the hard bit. She did Tommy everything until that night.

hours after Ashley walked out the front door, her mother's frantic

calls to her mobile were answered. By this time, I was shocked undone

found dead. I said he why you? He said to me who you laugh. And I

said no tummy who you were. This is my daughters find I want to know

who you laugh. It was a police officer. Bass is fine had been

found after a man was arrested for a driving offence. When he was

taken to be police station this This man is Peter Chapman. He had

just confessed to killing her daughter. I got a horrible feeling

inside. I cannot explain. My heart had been ripped out. Ashley had

been raped and murdered by Peter Chapman. Her body was found in a

ditch by the side of the road. wish she had never gone. Sorry. She

would have stayed. You can't do that to yourself. What she did not

know then was that Peter Chapman could have been stopped. He was a

known sex offender who was supposed to be monitored by Merseyside

police. But for nine months they did not know where he was. One

force had lost track of him. Three others fail to stop him. -- failed.

Just three days before Ashley was murdered, a nationwide alert had

been put out for Peter Chapman. During that time his car was

spotted near Ashby's home six - Max 16 times by special police cameras

which recognise registration numbers. On some occasions the

police look for him but twice they did not, 48 hours before Ashley was

killed. The police inspector looked at what officers he had and he

decided not to respond. Then on the evening Chapman pick Ashley up his

car were spotted by police cameras near his home. But the people who

were supposed to be watching were not locked onto the system. By this

time, Ashley was in his car. As the night moved on, he was spotted

again by Canberra's across the North-East. But nothing was done. -

- cameras. During that journey, Ashleigh Hall was killed. Judy

blame for her death? I blame him because he did it. But I've also

claimed the police for not doing their job properly. I always will.

The IP P -- IPCC produced two reports into her death. They call

for a national review of the way police cameras operated. They

criticised the poor monitoring of sex offenders. They concluded that

though opportunities were missed, they may not have prevented

Ashley's death. But her mother is clear the police let her and her

daughter down. When I am afraid all that I am sure my daughter would be

still here today. There is no question. She definitely would

still be here. So that makes me feel even worse because they could

have prevented the point Or concerns her the most about the

report is nobody was blamed in the north-east with the killer was

spotted that not stop. Merseyside, where police lost track

of Chapman for nine months, and lead to lower ranking officers

receive management advice. Across the hall Merseyside force, no

senior officers were held to account. So why isn't the IPCC lot

harder on the police? One criticism is that low ranking officers up

blamed. Is that fair? Joke. We follow the evidence where it takes

us. If it takes us higher in the organisation's - and there are

numerous examples where we have done this - we will take action to

get to those levels. We will determine a case to answer if that

is appropriate. He took Andrea Hall two years to find out what went

wrong. Even now she is not happy about the way she has been treated.

Durham police apologised to Andrea for failing to act went Chapman's

car was caught on camera. They believe the force needs to change.

Whenever a families bereaved there is a sense that something could

have been done more to prevent it. We are trying to very carefully

move the culture of the organisation to one of openness.

Where we say sorry, listen and explain. Then we can show people

this is what we have worked. So in Durham they are changing the way

complaints are handled. Now officers may have to do with their

accuser face-to-face. Panorama was given access to the very first time

an officer was called in to explain himself to be well when he arrested.

I am nervous. Donald was arrested during a row with her neighbours.

She thinks the officer was heavy hand as. I was arrested for no

reason. I suffered injuries to my hand. How are you doing? Donnell

wanted the police officer to answer for his actions. This is the first

time she has seen him since he arrested her. The first person I

saw in the street was an aggressive for a bout. When you walked in you

had a face that was going to make an arrest. I thought your behaviour

was difficult. Benny Hayne Castle on. That made you more angry?

too scared to be angry. Often it is really useful for the officer to

listen in a non-threatening environment to what the person has

to say. And then for the person to listen to what was going off with

the officer's by. I might adopt a different approach next time.

appreciate the conversation. We have both learnt stop. Donna still

does not agree with her arrest but she had her say. This system is

about being as open as possible when the public complains. Panorama

has found when the police think themselves officers have a case to

answer, things can be very different. There is a back door

available to officers who dealt not want to go through the misconduct

proceedings. You simply retire or resign. Make the decision yourself

to avoid justice. We have discovered how many do walk away.

How Freedom of Information request show that over the last three years

489 officers have chosen this route. If they are allowed to leave the

police there is a chance they will get work in another force. That

does happen. There is a judgment about waiting for a drawn-out

disputes procedure which ends in the officer losing their job. Or if

the officer is willing to resign is it not in the public interest to

get them off it a rock and avoid the cost and expense of a hearing?

It is frustrating. That answer is not good enough. This is not just

an issue of cost. It is an issue of gestures. Or what the public think

of the idea that so many officers choose to resign? I imagine they

would think the officer is getting away with. Is that there. In some

cases it may well be. How can it be that one of our most regulated

professions have such a large loophole? We expect a lot from our

police officers. But when they get it wrong because can be higher.

After what you have been through, where is your trust with the

police? I don't think I would ever trust them again. I have no faith

in them at all. Own faith in the police?. No faith. It is hard to

know if our system of dealing with officers accused of misconduct is

fair, when so many crucial decisions are made behind closed

doors and those accused are free to get up and walk away. A Thursday

night a Panorama special investigating the benefit cheats to

cost us all billions. That is on Away from the Plan B south-east. --

away from the cloudy south-east. We start the new day with a cold and

frosty note. One more day of sunshine to come in Scotland and

Northern Ireland. For England and Wales, it does become more cloudy

and rainy. This will drift west and north-west, bringing patchy drizzle

with that. 8:00am and it is a clear sky at start for the day in

Northern Ireland. Western Isles and Scotland is mild. -- in Scotland. A

fault it in the Central Lowlands. - - fork in the Central Lowlands. A

crossed eastern England, there is a call north-easterly breeze with

cloud and patchy drizzle. They cloud is drifting west. The early

sunshine in the south-west will be short-lived. The cloud it is into

eastern parts of Wales pushing west. It is in the Midlands and Yorkshire.

That will drift continues lead throughout the day. It will take

them while for the cloud to reach Cumbria. Some patchy fog may linger.

It will hold the temperature down. Around 10 or 11 degrees. Quite

whether at the moment in the UK because of this high pressure in

Scandinavia keeping rain at bay for now. But on Tuesday if this will

move across the UK. Clown in England and Wales will push across

Scotland and Northern Ireland. -- cloud. Hardly any sound. But the

nights will not be so cold. By Wednesday rain will progress West.