We have been able to swap duties on line for a few years now. Nothing to do with coronavirus. Whenever there has been any staffing/capacity issue at the DSCC, the LAA have always encouraged us to cut their workload by swapping duties or logging cases ourselves without troubling the call centre.

 

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From: members@mail.lccsa.org.uk <members@mail.lccsa.org.uk> On Behalf Of neil blackaby
Sent: 22 March 2020 01:12
To: Peter Fernando <vpfco@btinternet.com>
Cc: Sara Boxer <sarsboxer@gmail.com>; Members <members@mail.lccsa.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Coronavirus / Custody

 

Although we are all key workers, it doesn’t mean we all have to go to work as there are enough Duty Solicitors who would be willing to work in such circumstances the legal agency have said they will let us swap on line, we could give our Rotas away if we have concerns over our safety.

 

In all my years in legal practice the soundest thing I have heard is from the office cleaner at Bailey Nicholson Grayson who said to me if you have your health you have your wealth, of what use to your families are you if you are a victim of the Coronavirus just for the sake of a few police station cases it really isn’t worth the risk, leave earning money until another day.

 

Stay at home or in a place of safety. Others will take your Rotas off you if you give them away. 

 

Neil Blackaby 

 

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On 22 Mar 2020, at 00:18, Peter Fernando (via members list) <members@mail.lccsa.org.uk> wrote:

 

Dear All 

As a member and a fellow human being I humbly appeal to all members to write an urgent appeal to the powers that are responsible for police officers. 

I just ended a 28 hour stretch of duty work. Out of the 8 clients that I represented, three clients, in my opinion , should have not been arrested or certainly not interviewed. 

The three clients were as follows:-

1. Historical Rape- where the alleged victim had continued to have consensual sexual and audio recorded an encounter with my client designed to extract a confession from him and that audio had been shared with other lovers of my client in order to get their opinion on her attempt to entrap my client.The historical incidents were, one,which happened in 2016 and two ,which happened in 2018. There was no reason why he was arrested when ,the police were aware of what my client was likely to say as he had already mentioned his defence to the alleged victim when he was recorded by her two months ago. A voluntary attendance?

2. A man arrested for drink driving - where my client made full admissions within the first minute of the interview and made no attempt to deny any parts of the offence of drink driving for a distance of 20 feet to reverse his van for the doors to be secure last night. A quick 10 minute instead of a 48 minute interview would have sufficed.

3. A woman of good character who was arrested for Common assault and criminal damage. Client and partner had a disagreement because of the frustrating situation with panic buying. An argument developed in the car ,making the partner, who was driving , spit at my client and push and shove my client. Her partner stopped the car to attack my client who pushed him away causing slight damage  My client pushed her partner and during the push she aggravated an already damaged radio.The partner did not make an allegation but a concerned third party reported repeated hand movements by my client. Clearly ,the police did the right thing by arresting my client. However ,was it necessary to interview her in a custody interview after being detained for 8 hours ?

May be there should be a senior officer appointed to determine the necessity aspect of all arrests arriving into a custody area. Perhaps a video link to a senior officer from a remote location could make the decision.

I cannot see why a senior officer cannot be on duty. After all I have been on duty for 24 hours and worked for 28 hours having done this job for a long time since 1986.

I really feel that the authorities are unaware of the gravity of the crisis that we are facing or are we being given information to panic? 

It has to be one or the other .If we are being given the right information, the facts in Italy show that laid back attitude at the beginning have led to  hospitals having tragic shortages of ventilators leading to a number of deaths which are rising exponentially .If we are not being given the right information can someone tell me the true status. If they cannot, please do something and do something quickly tomorrow. Yes ,tomorrow is Sunday because along with medical staff, fireman  and judicial system , we do work 24/7.

Thank you and if I am not cogent in my argument, please forgive me. 

Peter Fernando

 

 



On 21 Mar 2020, at 19:29, Sara Boxer <sarsboxer@gmail.com> wrote:

 



Dear Members 

 

Please can you share info /observations about the health of people you are seeing in custody.



And please share this info with your colleagues /agents so they know about the risks of the health of the people they are seeing on their behalf.

 

Please stay safe and keep well,



Regards



Sara 





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LONDON

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