Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones is looking for volunteers on the Isle of Wight to make visits to check on the human rights and welfare of those held in custody at Newport. Independent Custody Visitors make unannounced visits to Police custody suites to check that people detained there are being properly looked after. They are completely independent of the police service. Training will be provided and travel expenses will be refunded for volunteers from the local area. For further information on the opportunity click here.
VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT TO CHECK WELFARE OF THOSE IN THE CELLS AT NEWPORT POLICE STATION
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Let’s chuck all the old farts in there best place for them
Stupid Boy.
Silly old fart
Booring!!!!. Can’t you find a different subject to bang on about?
What has this sad country come to? Check on people in custody!! Bring on the snowflakes! If your in a cell in the local station it’s because you’ve done wrong and need to be punished not Karen from Pan Estate on benefits tell a officer that drunk wife beating Dave needs a delivery from McDonald’s and a packet of 20 smokes washing it down with a can of lager, and she’s going to get her bus fare back!
what the hell is this to do with Pan Estate
Sorry if I hit the nail on the head there with Karen from Pan old chap, but have you ever driven St George’s Way and got stopped at the pedestrian crossing on a red light? It’s a scary moment and am glad I’ve got self locking doors and locking wheel nuts on the roller.
volunteers are thoroughly vetted an do training courses on the mainland. they are not select as to where they reside they are selected on merit and the capability to do the job. you sound like a senile old man either that or you are just a prat
How you would like to know if a am senile or a prat? But I can work out you sir live on pan, don’t work and are a snowflake! Good day and best of luck on getting this job, I cross my fingers for you.
Civilians involved with police recruitment plus these civilian crime commissioners and then woke individuals checking to see if some regulars (who will milk it for all its worth) are ok.
Give me strength !!
Donna Jones should do it herself.
Well at the last count the Commissioners staff amounted to about 15 people. (At vast expense)
Can’t imagine they’ll get many volunteers for this.
I bet they get plenty of volunteers. Some strange people out there get off on the idea of befriending people in jail. I once worked with an odd chap who had several female pen pals on death row in the USA. He even said one was his girlfriend and he sent her gifts. She had killed five people.
Let’s check the welfare of those homeless first shall we, get you priorities right.
the people who deserve to die? lmao
I think you push it too far there, sad lonely old man with two dogs too play with
What is there to check honestly, its not exactly Guantanimo bay, more woke nonsense from Donna Jones.
Uhhmmm is’nt that the job of popo good luck on that one..
How about the police officer that had time to make a prank call to another officer he could always do it
Shall I pop over and tuck them in every night or do they need an arse wiper
What is there to check, 10 cells and half the time it’s a quarter fall. Has she got no faith in the custody staff employed to take care of them.
I also need help with the job I’m doing, can I just ask for people to do it for free please?
Actually this is a good idea. Not everyone in custody deserves to be there. Police can make mistakes and arrest innocent people that they have to question then once questions are conducted they are released.
These checks need to be done, it wasn’t long ago we saw videos of a big police officer pinning down a small female detainee by her throat in the cell at the newport station.
Being arrested does not mean you’re guilty. What is wrong with the people in the comments with their crazy anti woke rubbish. Got nothing to do with the woke crowd or snowflakes. Some people in society do not have the skills to defend themselves and are easy targets of over zealous cops. Such as the ones that will grab the nearest black fella and lock them up ‘just in case’. The real question that should be asked is why has funding for the police dropped so far that we need volunteers.
And to the right wing mob below, you are innocent until proven guilty, could be you locked up for doing no wrong next.
Fascinating, please face the wall