Experience of police bullying gives insight into Mitchell's loss of faith
According to your report concerning the "stitching-up" of the Coalition Government's former chief whip, Andrew Mitchell ("Tory fury at police union in row over 'pleb remark'", The Herald, December 24), former Conservative police minister Nick Herbert stated that "the sensible majority [of police officers] need to understand how badly they are being let down by a hot-headed minority who have gone too far".
According to your report concerning the \"stitching-up\" of the Coalition Government's former chief whip, Andrew Mitchell (\"Tory fury at police union in row over 'pleb remark'\", The Herald, December 24), former Conservative police minister Nick Herbert stated that \"the sensible majority [of police officers] need to understand how badly they are being let down by a hot-headed minority who have gone too far\".
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Mr Mitchell stressed that he now feels his lifelong confidence in the police has been misplaced, adding, "If this can happen to a senior Government minister, what chance would a youth in Brixton or Handsworth have?"
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Experience of police bullying gives insight into Mitchell's loss of faith
According to your report concerning the "stitching-up" of the Coalition Government's former chief whip, Andrew Mitchell ("Tory fury at police union in row over 'pleb remark'", The Herald, December 24), former Conservative police minister Nick Herbert stated that "the sensible majority [of police officers] need to understand how badly they are being let down by a hot-headed minority who have gone too far".
Mr Mitchell stressed that he now feels his lifelong confidence in the police has been misplaced, adding, "If this can happen to a senior Government minister, what chance would a youth in Brixton or Handsworth have?"
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