August 2014
In February 2012 our organization https://www.dorsetvictimsupport.org produced the following documentary in response to David Cameron’s announcement about his Big Society plans.
The documentary can be seen on my https://www.dorsetpolice.tv website.
“All the issues referred to in our documentary can be backed up with evidence. However, as we are all aware, things have changed since the publication of our documentary in as much as in the UK we no longer have Police Authorities to hold police forces to account. We now have Police & Crime Commissioners instead. In the case of the Dorset Police & Crime Commissioner Martyn Underhill we have a man who was a former Detective Chief Inspector with the Sussex Police, who retired from Sussex Police in 2009 and moved to poole in Dorset. After retiring, in 2009 Underhill became a trustee and now chairman of a gay organization called Bourne Free. In 2012 he stood as a candidate to become Dorset Police & Crime Commissioner. Although the turn out of voters was amazingly low, Underhill subsequently was elected as the PCC for Dorset.”
Underhill’s slogan for his election campaign was “Keep Politics out of Policing”, yet Underhill now describes himself as a ‘politician’. Here we have a man who will say anything to get elected and then the reality with regards to him is a very different picture. Underhill as a PCC has proven to be no more effective than the Police Authority that his office replaced. He has failed to honour his own ‘Victims’ pledge in respect of victims our organization represent, who have been and continue to be victims of the Dorset Police. Despite interviewing two victims and taking their concerns up with Dorset Police Command, he reverted to the two elderly gay gentlemen when he visited them in April 2013 with the results of his investigation, only to inform the men that Dorset Police Command refused to discuss a violent armed response unit break in to their home with Underhill. Underhill failed to assert his authority with senior Dorset police officers, refusing to discuss complaints of misconduct with the PPC. Underhill subsequently emailed one of the men to advise him not to contact Dorset Police Command as his communications would be ignored. Underhill has failed in his statutory duty to hold Dorset Police Command to account for their misconduct in public office ! You can see a documentary in relation to this on our https://www.dorsetpolice.tv website and also here
https://www.metacafe.com/watch/10410369/dorset_police_lies/
Martyn Underhill PCC has previously written to the Chairman of our organization, informing him that he has no intentions whatsoever to investigate former Dorset Police officers or those about to take retirement, for misconduct and misfeasance allegations in public office.
Below are quotes from Damian Green former policing minister from 2013
“The public need to be confident that every officer they come into contact with is worthy of the trust placed in them.”
“Whilst the vast majority of police officers are honest and professional, where allegations of wrongdoing are made they must be investigated quickly, openly and effectively”
“Under the proposals, police officer gross misconduct hearings would be held in public. Other planned changes – which could come in as early as the end of this year – include removing lawyers from the conduct process and discipline proceedings to continue even if an officer resigns.”
The recommendations also call for ‘public hearings’ in relation to such issues.
These recommendations fly in the face of the total failure of Dorset police to deal with such issues of misconduct by Dorset police senior officers.
The PCC Martyn Underhill is a freemason and former senior police officer who had misconduct allegations leveled against him. We do not know where his sympathies lay with masonic brethren and other officers facing similar misconduct allegations. This question alone means that Underhill is tainted in relation to victims complaints that Dorset police force criminal allegations of misconduct into civil litigation at the ratepayers expense, instead of the officers concerned facing criminal or disciplinary charges.
Damian Green has now been replaced as policing minister by Mike Penning MP for Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. He is now responsible for holding the police to account for wrongdoing as part of his other portfolio for policing. The founder of the Dorset Victim Support Organization lives in Hertfordshire and was one of Mike Penning’s constituents. He brought the incestuous nature of the Dorset authorities and police misconduct allegations of Jane Stitchbury, Peter Harvey clerk to the police authority, and other former Dorset police officers to Mike Penning’s attention at the time Penning was supposed to be taking up the serious allegations made by his constituent. As a result of Penning’s failure to take on the Dorset police officers his constituent Mr. Coulter launched the self help action group in Dorset and launched websites in America to give Dorset victims a platform to show what the authorities have done to them. Following on from the successful defence of the websites where Dorset police and the british government lost a case adjudicated in America against Mr Coulter, the organization he founded is now going national with other victims across the country complaining that the IPCC and Crime Commissioners are unable to get police officers facing criminal charges for misconduct. How is that for your BIG society Me Cameron !
In our ‘Big Society’ documentary, reference is made to former Dorset Police Chief Constable Jane Stitchbury who had allegations of misconduct in public office leveled against her, as referred to in our documentary. After leaving Dorset Police in 2004 Jane Stitchbury was rewarded with being made HM Inspector of Constabulary. In 2004 Stitchbury was again rewarded with a CBE. In 2010 Stitchbury was again rewarded with an appointment as Chairman at the Dorset NHS Foundation Trust from 1 April, 2010.
Stitchbury continues to be rewarded. In 2014 Mrs Jane Stichbury of Ashley Heath made her declaration of office as The High Sheriff for Dorset for 2014/15 at a special ceremony at Bryanston School in Blandford on Thursday April 4.
Stitchbury was also made a deputy lord lieutenant of Dorset
Nice work if you can get it, especially when the police authority assisted her in covering up her misconduct and that of former senior Dorset officers, by forcing the allegations into civil litigation costing the Dorset ratepayers hundreds of thousands of pounds. Furthermore, upon leaving Dorset police she then became the inspector of constabulary, auditing her own former police force. This is the level of integrity that the people of dorset can expect from those who are paid six figure salaries as the supposed checks and balances in place to protect the public.
All of the contents of this article can be substantiated, and has been corroborated in the past in letters from London lawyers that are posted on our websites.
Anyone wishing to contact our organization can do so by writing to 3a Pirates Lane, Weymouth, Dorset, or call Mr. Coulter on 07956 374927
Gerry Coulter – Chairman – Dorset Victim Support Organization
https://www.dorsetpolice.tv
