Investigator Peter Moore West Mercia Professional Standards Department

On the 13^th of February 2012, Investigator Peter Moore calls our victim to inform him that he will be investigating a local resolution.

The victim tries to explain that these are all HATE CRIMES and he doesn’t want a simple local resolution:

EVIDENCE:

TRANSCRIPTS:
Costin: Yes ?
Investigator Peter Moore: Hello, is this Mr Cercel ?
Costin: Yes!
Investigator Peter Moore: This is Peter Moore, I’m from West Mercia Police from the Professional Standards Department.
Costin: Yes sir ?
Investigator Peter Moore: I am ringing about …
Costin: The complaint I made to the I.P.C.C.
Investigator Peter Moore: That’s right, they’ve passed it to me and I shall look at it.
Costin: Yes.
Investigator Peter Moore: So I just wanted to introduce myself and to explain what my role is, if that’s ok?
Costin: Yes ?
Investigator Peter Moore: The first thing to say is that I work for West Mercia Police but I’m not a police officer and my role is to look at how the police have done their job, to make sure that they done things that they should have done and to ensure that they’ve applied to the law and also to the processes and procedures that are in place.
Costin: Yes ?
Investigator Peter Moore: And I look to make sure that standards of professional behaviour are being adhered to; so that’s my role.
Costin: I understand. I want to make sure that my complaint is against police officers for misconduct, gross misconduct and me not having the chance to make a complaint, yes ?
Investigator Peter Moore: Yes !
Costin: Ok.
Investigator Peter Moore: In terms of how the gravity of the complaint is assessed, that`s not done by me but by someone else; they will look at it and see , you know, where your complaint falls into;in terms of something being gross misconduct it means that very serious and an officer would , is likely to loose their job. Ok ?
Costin: Yes ?
Investigator Peter Moore: So for something to be gross misconduct, that`s the possible outcome.
Costin: I know !
Investigator Peter Moore: And .. ok, you understand that ! And in term of these officers what we’ll look at is, as I said at the start, we`ll look  to see if the complied with the law, they complied with the policy and procedures and that they’ve acted within their professional responsibility, the standard of their professional behaviour, so that`s where I focus. And ultimately we look at if we show that if they have committed misconduct, we look to see what we can learn from that and how we can put that right. Ok ? So it may be that they have to have some training or might have some advice or something such as that. Do you understand ….
Costin: Yes, I understand what you are saying …
Investigator Peter Moore: Ok !