About this deal
Whilst in Police custody Jervon had made multiple complaints about his treatment which were in my opinion entirely justified but – unsurprisingly – when in December 2019 the Metropolitan Police’s Professional Standards Unit wrote to Jervon to confirm the outcome of his complaint, it was that none of these complaints were upheld.
Ross was then immediately released and the underlying proceedings against him adjourned to a later date.None of them appeared to provide a verbal response and certainly none of them stated anything approaching grounds for such an arrest. A black man who had innocuously visited his local Sainsbury’s to purchase some salad cream for a sandwich, was now being targeted as if he were a drug-dealer.
The Officers stated that given a Court Warrant had been issued, they had no alternative but to continue with Ross’s arrest. I know now that my actions were wrong and sincerely apologise for any distress or problems, that my actions caused [Adam] . Section 17 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) extends the power of entry, without a warrant, to a Constable intending to arrest a person for a Section 4 offence, but not a Section 5 offence.My client is a man of entirely good character and the whole experience was very alien to him and has left him with huge feelings of anxiety when he is at the Airport and an understandable degree of ‘paranoia’ about the Police. A man, believed to be this woman’s son, then entered the building society and stood next to her and began to stare at Jervon, before removing his belt and wrapping it around his fist in a clearly intimidatory manner. In my opinion the officers involved in this incident were disgracefully treating a mentally vulnerable individual like a second-class citizen, denied the full respect and protection of the law. It is further alleged that PC Roose has passed the details obtained from the police systems to his landlord.