is it illegal for police to tell press of a raid etc?

[petemurphy]

re cliff and others - is it illegal for the police to inform the press? or against any rules?

[jaf01uk]

I wouldn't have thought so as this morning there was a "smash your door in" cop show on tv and they actually had the press with them taking photographs of the "master key" being applied, I do however wonder what the cops think they might find in Cliff's house 40 years or whatever on that would be of any importance? Fishing trip?

[tr7v8]

petemurphy said:

re cliff and others - is it illegal for the police to inform the press? or against any rules?

I wondered that TBH. Obviously tipped off in the raid on Cliffs house.

[TooMany2cvs]

tr7v8 said:

I wondered that TBH. Obviously tipped off in the raid on Cliffs house.

The Beeb are denying that it was the Police who tipped 'em off.

[AgentZ]

If I was being really cynical you could argue most of these raids on VIPs that the press seem to know about beforehand are the authorities "showing to be doing something".

I would think, if genuine, they would require very solid reason(s) to get a search warrant in a case like this?

[anonymous-user]

The police are allowed to under very limited circumstances I.e. The person presents an immediate danger to the public. In the case of the most recent allegations I don't think this would be covered and whoever released the info is in big trouble.

[Vipers]

Back handers spring to mind.

TBH did this raid warrant an army of journalists and choppers, dear media, get a grip FFS.

[XCP]

Wasn't Boris Johnston filmed accompanying the police on a drugs raid? I hope his name was on the warrant.

[Mk3Spitfire]

Purity14 said:

Surely the press could tip off the alleged criminal for a fee?

It is a bit late by the time the door has already been put in. The press aren't given a list of up-coming warrants.

[Oakey]

Why is it only alleged sex offenders that certain PH'ers feel the need to white knight? No one ever started a thread about the press being tipped off when they're present for the myriad of large scale drugs raid across the country but when it concerns a possible sex offense, uproar.

[Thorodin]

Police tipped off BBC? I don't suppose for one moment that it was the BBC that tipped off the police about certain evidence they had been made aware of? You know, to deflect accusations of a BBC cover up?

[petemurphy]

Oakey said:

Why is it only alleged sex offenders that certain PH'ers feel the need to white knight? No one ever started a thread about the press being tipped off when they're present for the myriad of large scale drugs raid across the country but when it concerns a possible sex offense, uproar.

because a sex offense in the eyes of the world is the worse crime possible and you will be labeled forever

[Oakey]

petemurphy said:

because a sex offense in the eyes of the world is the worse crime possible and you will be labeled forever

Is it? Really? What, worse than, say, murdering a child?

[petemurphy]

Oakey said:

Is it? Really? What, worse than, say, murdering a child?

maybe not murdering a child but i'd rather be labelled a murderer than a paedo

[Steffan]

petemurphy said:

Oakey said:

Is it? Really? What, worse than, say, murdering a child?

maybe not murdering a child but i'd rather be labelled a murderer than a paedo

Indeed. Years ago when working with resettled offenders I met both types released time served. The murderers are on occasion more understandable I think. Not that what they did was right but or could be acceptable but with crimes of passion at least understandable. Paedophiles are a vey different type and certainly the most widely condemned. I found it very difficult to have any point of contact with those prisoners.

[TooMany2cvs]

petemurphy said:

maybe not murdering a child but i'd rather be labelled a murderer than a paedo

I'd rather have been sexually abused as a child than murdered.

[KM666]

Nobody likes a diddler. Plenty of people will be very keen to hurt a diddler. Way before any sort of trail. How can anybody pretend that this response to a particularly vile crime shouldn't require a touch more subtlety when writing headlines about people yet to be charged?

[grumpy52]

Yorkshire fuzz doing a raid in Berkshire , aided by Thames Valley , are they playing top trumps in knicking celebrity nonces ?

[anothernameitist]

^ not sure but I wonder if they were singing summer holiday on the way down or the young ones maybe

[duckwhistle]

google,'Elm lodge scandal' for an interesting read.