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Lancashire police set up first senior women detectives' network


LANCASHIRE police have established the first Senior Women Detective's Network (SWDN) in the country.

The move has been welcomed by Lancashire’s Police Federation, who say the network will help provide more role models for their female members.

The SWDN, which celebrates its first anniversary this month, was borne out of the success of the Lancashire Constabulary Women's Network and was established formally in June 2008 after the need to have an informal support network was identified by female Detective Inspectors within the force.

Historically, there have been difficulties in recruiting women to specialist senior roles, and this network provides the opportunity to share experience, advice and best practice on an informal basis.

Detective Inspector Jill Johnston from the Public Protection Unit at Blackburn said: “The network has been extremely supportive to me,particularly so when I made the transition into an investigative role.

“Prior to 2007 my career had been predominantly in uniform and when I made the decision to pursue the role of a Detective Inspector, I tapped into the contacts I had formed with the Senior Women's Detective Network who provided me with valued advice and guidance along the way.”

John O’Reilly at Lancashire Police Federation said: “Although the network members are more senior than our members, they will provide more role models for women officers progressing through the ranks.

“There have been certain problems with the recruitment of officers, for example when women take career breaks to have a family, and we can only welcome this move.”

The network currently has 15 members ranging from the rank of Inspector up to Chief Superintendent who attend the meetings, and it is also open to colleagues who are currently in acting roles.

The meetings are every two months and take place across the county.


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SilverbackGorilla, Darwen says...
10:33pm Mon 22 Jun 09

WHY?

SilverbackGorilla, Darwen says...
10:35pm Mon 22 Jun 09

and at what cost?

SameOldFaces, Blackburn says...
11:57pm Mon 22 Jun 09

More positive discrimination... with the Black Police Officers Association and now the Senior Women Detectives Network, I feel sorry for the white males in the force.

Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
9:07am Tue 23 Jun 09

Hi All.
Siverback you ask why?

To protect the 'firm'.
Here is what has happened to LCC under the Bluesw and Twos Credit Union :

My investigations into Lancashire County Council(LCC) started over 6weeks ago when I first discovered them listed on Dunn and Bradstreets’ website. It is listed there as a company and all of the schools in the county are listed as their ‘trading names’. I was interested to know more about the corporate status of LCC.

LCC was not the only supposed government organisation I found listed as a company on the above website. I could not, however, find them listed at Companies House, the UK Company Register database. This got me thinking!

From my own experience, any incorporated company registered in the UK is done so through Companies House, which is a Trading Fund. The office registered (the ‘registered office’) can either be the main place of business, the home address of the ‘owner/s’ or their solicitors’ office! If the registered offices is outside the UK its not on Companies House.

When I first phoned LCC, about 3wks ago, to ask them about what I had found on D&B I was met with confusion from whom ever I spoke to. I spoke to many different people all of which couldn’t answer my questions and could not put me onto some who could! Then I found one that could!

My question was very simple, “ Is Lancashire County Council a company and if so where is it registered?”

The first answer I always got was “LCC is a local authority, not a company”. My reply to this was very simple too:

“If that is the case, then why can I pay nearly $500 for Dun and Bradstreet International Business report. What information have they got that is worth $500 that I, as a member of the public, can’t get off you for free? Do members of the public have to pay tens of thousands of pounds to get individual reports on all its branch trading activities?”

By this point I had asked whoever was on the phone if they had internet access. “Yes” would always be the reply so I would direct them to the above website before asking the above questions.

The response from this was usually one of amazement. They would accept they new nothing and offered assistance by trying to find someone who could! I must say, everyone I spoke to did their best to find me an answer. Then I got a strange reply.

One man came back on the phone after having me on hold and said, “I have asked around and no one seems to know. Someone did tell me, though, that they had had a similar enquiry last year and they were told they would have to write in as a complaint but no one knew what had happened since”. He told me I should do the same.

I phoned back the next day, this was last week, and finally got through to someone who could answer my first question – Is LCC a company?

This gentleman told me that it was, and that it was registered at Companies House. This wasn’t news to him but he did not know the ins and outs. He said it had special status and that it wasn’t the same as all the other companies. He also thought it had been set up by Royal Charter!

Really? Like the Bank of England?!?

So I went to www.companieshouse.g
ov.uk

What I found is disturbing to say the least! Lancashire County Council is registered. Its number is 666! The full number is IP00666c but if you can accept that zero is NOT a number then the only number I see is 666! (FSA no. 666C)

Search this number at the above website and you will see Lancashire County Council. You will also see that has been removed and is no longer trading! I phoned companies house and they told me that it was a credit union and was registered with the Financial Services Authority! The women couldn’t tell me whether or not they were my county council and referred me to the FSA.

I phoned the FSA and spoke to a lovely woman called Maria (tel. 0207 066 4916) who was very knowledgeable and very helpful! Not often you get the two together! First she told me that the ‘IP’ and ’C’ prefix to the number meant it was formed under the Industrial and Provident Act 1965 and the Credit Union Act 1979.

She then went on to tell me the following:

‘ LCC was incorporated in 2002. Its registered office was 3rd Floor, Christ Church Precinct, County Hall, Preston. It was completely dissolved on the 24th January 2008.

The registered address of this company is Lancashire Police Headquarters, PO Box 77, Hutton, Preston. They now own all of LCCs assets and liabilities!

I told her that I was confused because I paid council tax to a company called LCC. She said I shouldn’t because that company no longer exists and no one is trading with that name!?!

Now I was really confused and I got back on the phone to my local borough council and managed to speak to the head of collections! He was stunned to silence and kept saying, “ I don’t know what to say!

I tried in vain to have my questions answered from both my county and borough councils. Many, many phone calls all with the same reception – shock and aw! Still my questioned went unanswered!

Then, on Sun1st March 2009, I had a meeting at Preston Police station with a WPC Srgt Logan 2870. I had actually gone in to submit formal allegations against 3 officers who had stopped me outside Preston Magistrates 5days earlier.

I decided to talk to her about what I had found out about LCC and asked her whether the Police would investigate the matter if LCC would not deny that it is they I am looking at on Companies House!

She sat there in silence as I explained. Previous to this, when I had been explaining the Law to her and how her officers were breaking it, she had kept talking over me and been very dismissive. Now she just sat there.

She suddenly piped up and said “That can’t possibly be true!” To which I said “ You are not entitled to make that decision”
She repeated herself but this time I could see something going on behind her eyes! She was thinking about it! Then she said this

“ It can’t possibly be true because Lancs County Council pay my wages!”

“Really!” I said, “I thought you were employed by the police, sergeant. Are you not?”

And that brought an end to my first visit to Preston Police station!

Since then, I had to phone the police 0845 number for something and the man who answered said “Lancashire Constabulry”

“Oh, is that not Lancashire police Authority?” I replied.

“No sir, this is Lancashire Constabulry!” he said

“Well my council tax pays Lancs Police Authority, not Lancs Constaburly!”

“You need to speak to your council about that sir”

So I did! Trying to get hold of any one at the top at your council is hard but today (5.3.09) I got a call from a man called Gary who is head of corporate finance at South Ribble Borough Council.

I told him a few things and he very quickly sounded very worried! It was either because I was right or because he new I was right! He said he was going to look into it because it was very serious. Also, he said that all the money they collect as tax, every penny, goes to Lancs County Council!

“Then why am I paying you to pay then? What’s going on?”

I then read a few extracts from the Industrial and Provident Act 1965 to him. Now, I’m not sure but I believe he defecated right there on the spot!

He said he was going to check the names on accounts because he thought that what they paid to LCC was paid to an account with a different name!!! I told him it was probably the Blues and Twos! He just said he would get back to me as soon as he could!

That’s where we are up to. Still no conformation as to whether or not LCC (IP00666c) is my county council! But after reading various Acts I can see how it is!!!

The funny thing is, South Ribble Council have a Liabilty Order against the legal fiction known as MICHAEL THOMAS DOBSON. They have been hassling me for months, as I had been conned into thinking it was me! Since I started the above process I hadn’t heard a thing until 2days ago when they sent me a very polite letter asking if I would like to pay by direct debit! Ha ha

The other thing to note is that not one other county council is listed on companies house! Weird!

Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
9:29am Tue 23 Jun 09

Hi All.

I have asked MP Greg Pope to act on my behalf to get to the bottom of the above information, you should do the same out there in Lancashire with your own MP.
I will keep you informed..

Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
10:44am Tue 23 Jun 09

Hi All.

Let us now see how these MP's act in relation to the information.

Do they know about this deception and corporate takeover of every asset belonging to the people of Lancashire, by definition of the fact 'We the people' Pay for everything??

Or do they only 'now' know, and do they understand the full implications of such a corporate takeovert of the county?

I will create a page for you all to see in this website here :

http://www.lifeinthe
mixtalk.com/

Telegraph...I think your comments widget is not working properly!!!!!!

Excluded, Darwen says...
10:56am Tue 23 Jun 09

Lifeinthemix

There is more than one form of incorporaiton under English law.

Companies are just the most common.

Anything with the prefix IP is a form of Industrial and Provident Society. If it has an R as a suffix it is a co-operative society or society for the benefit of the community. If it has a C as a suffix it is a Credit Union.

You can find a full list of IPSs at the their regulator, the Financial Services Authority:-

mutuals?fsa?gov?uk

(Used question marks as web addresses can't be posted).

So there is no conspiracy. You just don't know quite enough law.

Izanears, Nelson says...
11:05am Tue 23 Jun 09

Is this Senior Women 's Detective Network
anything like that TV prog that was on recently, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency? That was a laugh as well!

Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
12:29pm Tue 23 Jun 09

Hi All.

The initial responses are usuing the rather obtuse idea that this is a borough issue, it most certainly is not, it is a County issue.

If this response becomes 'the' reaction to this information then I would ask that you out there send the information to your MP, this way we can get all the MP's to act in this regard.

I have placed this topic for full and easy access to the MP's concerned here :

http://www.lifeinthe
mixtalk.com/?p=240

I will update this page so you can see the results and judge as to whether you feel you need to act.

Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
12:38pm Tue 23 Jun 09

Hi All.

Excluded, Darwen

I think you miss the point here sir.

This is all based in 'Statutes', the British Admiralty Law.

This statute legislation pushed under Blair and Brown, usurps our Common Law constitution, we are being scammed.

To study what fascism is as a political expression, one concludes that whenever the corporate world takes over the State system, then that system in place is 'FASCISM.

What this means ladies and gentlemen is...
WE IN THE UK NOW EXIST NOT UNDER DEMOCRACY BUT UNDER THE MODEL OF POLITC NAMED FASCISM.

Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
12:57pm Tue 23 Jun 09

Hi All.

Excluded, Darwen

I will tell you what I do know :

All assets belonging to Lancashire County Council, are now owned by Lancashire Constabulary.

Lancashire as soon as the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, becomes a region controlled directly from Brussels, the region has its own foriegn policy also which it communicates not to Parlaiment, but to Brussels.

All assets administered by Lancashire County Council on behalf of 'we the people', belong not to LCC, but to all the people in Lancashire, as we have paid for all these assets with what was property rates, we paid our water rates, etc.

The same with the housing stock which you out there handed free of charge to the corporate world, and worse these housing associations are 'CHARITIES' and do not have to comply with Freedom of Information requests, they do not have to give out any information to the public whatever. So they steal our assets and are covered from any explanations as to how they decieved the people into handing over our assets into the Corporate world.

It matters not how the terms are presented, it is UN LAWFUL under Common law, it is 'LEGAL', only under the statutes shadow.

When they privatise the NHS, again the taxpayer will hand over all the buildings and equipment we the taxpayers will pay for for years to come and have paid for in the past, to the Corporate world for nothing, that is theft under Common Law and not Lawful.
It means the the banks get the assets while the taxpayer gets the debt.

The schools are going the same way under the Academy's agenda.

WAKE UP PEOPLE OUR NATION IS BEING TAKEN OVER COMPLETELY BY THE CORPORATE WORLD.

The same accross all NATO countries.
Global fascism is at the door, and they are moving to attack Iran after Henry kissinger announced, "We are preparing for an attack on the unstable IRAN"
he forgot to mention the CIA are behind the Iran revolution going on presently, they aim to place the Shah's son in power.

Just because Blair, Obama, Brown, Sarkozy and co, do not look like Hitler, doaes not mean what Hitler did to Germany is not happening here and now. it is and you had better wake up fast.

midas, burnley says...
3:06pm Tue 23 Jun 09

Lifeinthemix wrote:
Hi All. Excluded, Darwen I will tell you what I do know : All assets belonging to Lancashire County Council, are now owned by Lancashire Constabulary. Lancashire as soon as the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, becomes a region controlled directly from Brussels, the region has its own foriegn policy also which it communicates not to Parlaiment, but to Brussels. All assets administered by Lancashire County Council on behalf of 'we the people', belong not to LCC, but to all the people in Lancashire, as we have paid for all these assets with what was property rates, we paid our water rates, etc. The same with the housing stock which you out there handed free of charge to the corporate world, and worse these housing associations are 'CHARITIES' and do not have to comply with Freedom of Information requests, they do not have to give out any information to the public whatever. So they steal our assets and are covered from any explanations as to how they decieved the people into handing over our assets into the Corporate world. It matters not how the terms are presented, it is UN LAWFUL under Common law, it is 'LEGAL', only under the statutes shadow. When they privatise the NHS, again the taxpayer will hand over all the buildings and equipment we the taxpayers will pay for for years to come and have paid for in the past, to the Corporate world for nothing, that is theft under Common Law and not Lawful. It means the the banks get the assets while the taxpayer gets the debt. The schools are going the same way under the Academy's agenda. WAKE UP PEOPLE OUR NATION IS BEING TAKEN OVER COMPLETELY BY THE CORPORATE WORLD. The same accross all NATO countries. Global fascism is at the door, and they are moving to attack Iran after Henry kissinger announced, "We are preparing for an attack on the unstable IRAN" he forgot to mention the CIA are behind the Iran revolution going on presently, they aim to place the Shah's son in power. Just because Blair, Obama, Brown, Sarkozy and co, do not look like Hitler, doaes not mean what Hitler did to Germany is not happening here and now. it is and you had better wake up fast.
and what exactly is the problem?

Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
5:28pm Tue 23 Jun 09

Hi All.

midas, burnley

Well midas, the problem as I see it would be the fact that there are far too many people in this county who like you cannot see what the problem is.

The first responses were good.

You can follow the real action as this attempt to get MP's to actually act on behalf of the people of Lancashire here :

http://www.lifeinthe
mixtalk.com/?p=240


disgusted tunbridge wells, rossendale says...
6:29pm Tue 23 Jun 09

Bring back "The Gentle Touch" but don't tell Gene Hunt

ray_carlings_moustache, Real World says...
6:56pm Tue 23 Jun 09

I'm sorry, but it begs the question : WHY?

ray_carlings_moustache, Real World says...
7:06pm Tue 23 Jun 09

Maybe they could set up a '70's Moustache Wearing Police Group' I'm sure there's plenty of female cops who will be eligible.

ray_carlings_moustache, Real World says...
7:08pm Tue 23 Jun 09

"Prior to 2007 my career had been predominantly in uniform" - And.....? Your point is?

SameOldFaces, Blackburn says...
11:32pm Tue 23 Jun 09

Lifeinthemix from Accrington... you need to get out more. Your ramblings only show people what a lonely person you must be.. get help!!

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