An alarming ignorance of the law is being displayed by some police officers. Take the fiasco over a Merseyside Police campaign involving a truck driving around with the slogan "Being offensive is an offence". Er, no it's not. We still have free speech in this country and if free speech means anything, it means the right to saying things other people might not like. Faced with a torrent of social media ridicule, Merseyside plod backtracked and issued a statement saying: "We would like to clarify that 'being offensive' is not in itself an offence." The statement added that the message "although well-intentioned was incorrect". But, refusing to admit defeat, insisted that it was still all-systems-go for "Our Hate Crime Co-ordinators". Meanwhile, over in West Yorkshire, there was a crime, this time a horribly real one, only the police didn't think so. Tehreen Din, 25, worked at a care home in Huddersfield, where she stole the contactless bank card of a bed-bound resident and used it to spend £360 in a series of shopping trips to Primark. As clear a case of fraud as you're going to find, you might think. Yet when West Yorkshire's finest got involved, they decided to… Read full this story
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