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      Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.

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      Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Aug 20, 2013 12:02:15 am
      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-hillsborough-police-tried-to-raid-12m-victims-fund-8775180.html

      It just gets even more sick. No surprises but that F***ing b***ard Norman Bettison was in on it also - if this guys doesn't get sent to jail, then I lose faith in everything. Absolutely disgusting.
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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #1: Aug 20, 2013 10:31:06 am
      Words fail me
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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #2: Aug 20, 2013 06:32:59 pm
      South Yorkshire Police offered Hillsborough Disaster Fund cash
      Police chiefs wanted to buy an overseas holiday home for officers using money from the Hillsborough Disaster Fund.

      South Yorkshire Police proposed purchasing a property after bosses of the fund asked for ideas of how to spend "residual money" in 1991.

      The force also asked for gym equipment, gifts for sick officers and microwaves.

      Sheila Coleman, of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, described the "brazen" requests as evidence of the police "insensitivity".

      Documents released by the Hillsborough Independent Panel show the request for a holiday home was made by Chief Inspector John Donnelley, who was in charge of policing in Sheffield city centre on the day of the disaster.

      He wrote: "Purchase of some sort of holiday flat - either home or abroad - for use by police officers and families."

      Sir Norman Bettison, a former inspector with South Yorkshire Police who attended the 1989 match as a spectator, suggested spending £2,000 refurbishing the enquiry desk area at Hammerton Road Police Station, or upgrading the police room at Hillsborough.

      Other suggestions included redecorating police rooms at five football grounds in South Yorkshire, improving visitor facilities at police stations, and creating an Occupational Health Unit for the force.

      'Absolutely appalling'
      None of the projects is believed to have been approved.

      Money for the fund, which eventually reached about £12m, came via donations from organisations including Liverpool FC, the government, and the cities of Sheffield, Liverpool and Nottingham.

      Ms Coleman said: "Clearly [South Yorkshire Police's] insensitivity to the whole issue was such that they had no problem in proffering suggestions, such as Norman Bettison for the front of his police station.

      "The one that gets me is the holiday home for police officers. Even at the time in 1991 people knew there was a cover-up - there was emerging evidence - and it is absolutely appalling that they are brazen enough that they would take the money."

      She described the decision by the fund's trustees to offer bodies such as the police money in January 1991 as "premature", saying it could have been put towards "subsistence" for families fighting legal battles.

      'Improve public safety'
      Deputy Chief Constable Andy Holt said South Yorkshire Police was among a number of bodies approached by the fund's trustees.

      He said: "As a result, South Yorkshire Police formally submitted a number of suggestions to the trustees of the Hillsborough Disaster Fund which included enhancing the quality of the police control rooms at Hillsborough and other football stadia to improve public safety and the policing of future football matches.

      "Other suggestions included the provision of better equipment for the force's Casualty Bureau, the creation of an Occupational Health Unit and a number of community-based projects.

      "In addition, a small number of other suggestions were made by individual officers and or staff at the time that included the provision of items of gymnasium equipment in police gyms to help maintain the health and fitness of officers, and the purchase of a holiday flat for use by officers and their families.

      "I am not aware that any of the various suggestions succeeded in attracting funding."

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-23755568

      Abhorrent excuse for public servants.

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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #3: Aug 21, 2013 06:21:20 pm
      just when you think you have seen the absolute worse abuse of power from the Police this comes along.. Given all that has been revealed over these last few years not only regarding Hilsborough but generally isn't it time that the whole Police force was looked into because it no longer serves the public which funds it.I am shocked and disgusted.
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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #4: Aug 21, 2013 08:40:46 pm
      just when you think you have seen the absolute worse abuse of power from the Police this comes along.. Given all that has been revealed over these last few years not only regarding Hilsborough but generally isn't it time that the whole Police force was looked into because it no longer serves the public which funds it.I am shocked and disgusted.

      I know, it just goes from bad to worse.

      You can fully understand why they are doing everything to keep this quiet, and why they tried to close every avenue of investigation.
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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #5: Aug 21, 2013 11:25:42 pm
      I'd like to say I'm shocked. I can't.
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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #6: Aug 22, 2013 11:26:45 am
      Words fail me.
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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #7: Sep 01, 2013 10:11:48 pm
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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #8: Sep 01, 2013 11:35:52 pm
      That is so F***ing sick it's just wiped the smile of my face.
      I'm lost for words !
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      Reply #9: Sep 03, 2013 01:39:59 pm
      That is so f**king sick it's just wiped the smile of my face.
      I'm lost for words !
      quite a contrast from fans stealing from the dead. who honestly would trust the police these days not me for one.
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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #10: Sep 03, 2013 06:50:11 pm
      Un-F***ing-believable.

      Absolutely sickening.
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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #11: Sep 04, 2013 06:05:28 pm
      Hillsborough police paid money found among the dead into force’s coffers
      The police force accused of covering up Britain’s worst-ever sporting disaster profited from the tragedy by keeping money found among the dead and dying at Hillsborough, The Independent can reveal.

      South Yorkshire Police (SYP), the force whose officers falsely accused Liverpool fans of robbing from the dead at Hillsborough, held on to cash from the ground for almost three years before deciding to bank it – rather than donate the money to the disaster fund set up to help victims of the tragedy.

      The revelation, in documents released by the Hillsborough Independent Panel, prompted an angry response from campaigners on Sunday night, with SYP’s actions branded “an absolute disgrace” and “beyond belief”.

      A memorandum dated January 1992 details personal possessions which had been recovered from the disaster, where the owners were not known. It reveals that while officers were cautious about destroying clothing, they showed few reservations when it came to the loose change. Cash totalling £14.53 was part of the inventory and a recommendation to “pay this into the finance department” was agreed without reservation.

      The news comes after it emerged last month that the force attempted to get thousands of pounds from the disaster fund to pay for gym equipment, microwaves and a holiday home.

      Sheila Coleman, from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, said: “That the force responsible for the deaths of 96 people kept some of the money found at Hillsborough is beyond belief. The fact that they decided to keep it, and not even consider donating it to the disaster fund, speaks volumes as to the mind-set of the South Yorkshire Police and their contempt for Liverpool football fans and their friends and families.”

      And Margaret Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, whose son, James, 18, was among the victims, said: “This is an absolute disgrace and very ironic, when they were accusing the fans of robbing the dead. I just find that rather appalling.”

      An SYP spokeswoman stressed that the cash was banked “in accordance with the policy operating at that time” and that  “unclaimed monies should have been placed into the Police Property Act Fund maintained by the then police authority which would then have been available for payment towards such charitable purposes as the authority might determine.”

      She added: “South Yorkshire Police are unable to comment on how these particular monies may have been dealt with, as financial records from that time do not exist.

      “Whilst there is no reason to believe the proper processes were not followed, any further investigation of the circumstances in which this sum was recovered and applied would fall to be addressed, if at all, by the IPCC [Independent Police Complaints Commission] as part of its ongoing investigation.”

      It has also emerged that within weeks of the tragedy, in which 96 died and hundreds more were injured, police officers were encouraged to try and get compensation from a fund created for the victims.

      In a letter to Sir Peter Wright, then chief constable, in June 1989, Paul Middup, secretary of the Police Federation’s South Yorkshire branch, stated: “I see no reason why our officers should not claim from the Hillsborough one,” and asked him to bring the matter to “everyone’s notice” through force orders.

      Although the chief constable decided against doing this, he agreed to help by getting a force welfare officer to contact individual officers “about their rights in this regard” according to a file note by former deputy chief constable Peter Hayes [Feb 1990].

      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hillsborough-police-paid-money-found-among-the-dead-into-forces-coffers-8793702.html?origin=internalSearch


      From HR's post above.

      May they rot in hell.
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      Re: Hillsborough Police Attempts at Raiding £12 million Victims Funds.
      Reply #12: Sep 05, 2013 10:51:07 pm
      Hillsborough police paid money found among the dead into force’s coffers
      The police force accused of covering up Britain’s worst-ever sporting disaster profited from the tragedy by keeping money found among the dead and dying at Hillsborough, The Independent can reveal.

      South Yorkshire Police (SYP), the force whose officers falsely accused Liverpool fans of robbing from the dead at Hillsborough, held on to cash from the ground for almost three years before deciding to bank it – rather than donate the money to the disaster fund set up to help victims of the tragedy.

      The revelation, in documents released by the Hillsborough Independent Panel, prompted an angry response from campaigners on Sunday night, with SYP’s actions branded “an absolute disgrace” and “beyond belief”.

      A memorandum dated January 1992 details personal possessions which had been recovered from the disaster, where the owners were not known. It reveals that while officers were cautious about destroying clothing, they showed few reservations when it came to the loose change. Cash totalling £14.53 was part of the inventory and a recommendation to “pay this into the finance department” was agreed without reservation.

      The news comes after it emerged last month that the force attempted to get thousands of pounds from the disaster fund to pay for gym equipment, microwaves and a holiday home.

      Sheila Coleman, from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, said: “That the force responsible for the deaths of 96 people kept some of the money found at Hillsborough is beyond belief. The fact that they decided to keep it, and not even consider donating it to the disaster fund, speaks volumes as to the mind-set of the South Yorkshire Police and their contempt for Liverpool football fans and their friends and families.”

      And Margaret Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, whose son, James, 18, was among the victims, said: “This is an absolute disgrace and very ironic, when they were accusing the fans of robbing the dead. I just find that rather appalling.”

      An SYP spokeswoman stressed that the cash was banked “in accordance with the policy operating at that time” and that  “unclaimed monies should have been placed into the Police Property Act Fund maintained by the then police authority which would then have been available for payment towards such charitable purposes as the authority might determine.”

      She added: “South Yorkshire Police are unable to comment on how these particular monies may have been dealt with, as financial records from that time do not exist.

      “Whilst there is no reason to believe the proper processes were not followed, any further investigation of the circumstances in which this sum was recovered and applied would fall to be addressed, if at all, by the IPCC [Independent Police Complaints Commission] as part of its ongoing investigation.”

      It has also emerged that within weeks of the tragedy, in which 96 died and hundreds more were injured, police officers were encouraged to try and get compensation from a fund created for the victims.

      In a letter to Sir Peter Wright, then chief constable, in June 1989, Paul Middup, secretary of the Police Federation’s South Yorkshire branch, stated: “I see no reason why our officers should not claim from the Hillsborough one,” and asked him to bring the matter to “everyone’s notice” through force orders.

      Although the chief constable decided against doing this, he agreed to help by getting a force welfare officer to contact individual officers “about their rights in this regard” according to a file note by former deputy chief constable Peter Hayes [Feb 1990].

      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hillsborough-police-paid-money-found-among-the-dead-into-forces-coffers-8793702.html?origin=internalSearch


      From HR's post above.

      May they rot in hell.

      F***ing disgraceful bas**rds, every one of them.

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