Originally Posted by
swimfeeders
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Hi
He has not as yet been prosecuted.
Viewing legal pornography is not a criminal offence.
It is a Civil Matter relating to codes of conduct, nothing more, nothing less.
It is not a matter for the CPS.
Removing evidence and retaining it is a Criminal Offence.
There are two ways of dealing with it.
One is a Criminal Prosecution.
The other, far more effective solution, is an Internal Disciplinary.
Any of my staff doing so would have been dismissed without any Pension, it would have been stripped.
We simply cannot have a system whereby Enforcement Officers, of any variety, remove evidence.
It works both ways UJ, the Rotherham Cover up is an example.
If you need to view Porn as part of your job, and many do, there are stand alone computers in the office, two Passwords, the Boss and the Officer and each and every visit is logged.
That is how we trace the rape gangs and kiddy fiddlers and people traffickers.
A very different scenario to an idiot viewing Porn in works time, that is simply an Internal Disciplinary.
I will repeat, I have one PACE Book, fully authorised, because I need it.
The others are signed out and in when used, when you leave or retire, there is a process to be followed.
In this instance it was not, and that is wrong.