ITV Exposure programme highlights the need for regulation
Posted on Julie Green-JonesTV’s Exposure programme has uncovered some terrible practices that we weren’t privy to and brings again the issue of regulation of the enforcement industry to the top of the agenda.
Rossendales certainly doesn’t condone John Boast’s working practices. We were very shocked and upset at the way he went about his business – it was just unbelievable that a man, who received glowing testimonies from clients and in many cases creditors, conducted himself the way he did.
Managing Director Mike Shang, the board and I have worked tirelessly to create a company that leads the way in the enforcement industry. We are continually looking at ways that we can improve our working practices and be more transparent. This is something that we’ve placed great emphasis on since Rossendales began in 1972 and as a result the business has grown.
I find the above passage so porous the ship must have already sunk. With an open mind I invite all readers to scrutinise the above statement and then compare it to the evidence, some supplied by the admirable Pip Clothier Exposure programme, and the three years of this blog trying to get answers from everyone from the Industry to the political masters who devise such unregulated mess. One has to take into consideration that a TV programme can only cover so much in a short period of time. 50 minutes is not enough, but when you consider previous programmes and the lack of improvement, the lack of support to victims by any authority, this whole process is worse than a Pier Show Farce.
This is the reply I made to the owners of the site and the employers of many illegal workers
I have a
blog which is slanted deliberately, as is this blog, towards getting my voice
heard. With the Bailiff Industry they, and you and your partner in your
reply here, have clearly indicated a subtlety in manipulation of fact. I.E.
never represent true facts and always blame the rogue individual. You
could be working for that other oxymoron Military Intelligence.
Had your
industry the slightest intention of abiding by common law or even statute law
of assault, you would accept Wendy Seaman's (contribution below) offer of a
front to front exchange. There is the perfect opportunity and I have written
to Lord Bach and Lord Lucas offering my attendance at the House of Lords for
your intended "Love-Inn".
The fact
is that you have perfectly innocent victims of your own industry terrified by
your illegal approach to a delicate subject. My complaint to the IPCC was
echoed in the recent report on the Police and that body's inability or lack of
authority to give reasonable satisfaction to injured parties makes this future
and most other future exercises futile.
Laws
already exists to have you and all your fellow conspirators charged under
existing legislation of employer’s liability, for police to be prosecuted for
malfeasance in public office, and the whole damn lot to be charge with fraud
and extortion on the innocent victims and here I do not include the mentally
sick or the physically disabled.
Steve Flanigan on November 8, 2011 at 3:20 pm said:
ReplyDeleteYour comment is awaiting moderation. In response to this blog I have sent this reply and give you permission to make it more public than it already is. http://www.thecampaignforchange.co.uk/2011/11/itv-exposure-programme-highlights-the-need-for-regulation/#comment-247
Precisely the same as they did with me when filming the legal murder of my Uncle, Accrington pensioner Andy Miller; they did not. That right of reply for Rossendales and this man Boaster, was aired at the expense of my uncle’s case.
Stop threatening these victims and open the debate so that families of these injustices have the same voice as the deep pocketed businesses. If you transpose the first section of the Exposure programme to read English pensioner with early onset of dementia instead of the monotonous diatribe because he was collecting from an immigrant, then you may begin to feel the distaste of a family that has served this nation in terms of years and lost manpower with equal patriotism as any other English family. Andy’s brother, five nephews in the immediate family did not give our youth and health for the nation to allow such a hollow and debase report to go unchallenged. The Hillsborough families had to wait 22 years to get access to none redacted files, Ian Tomlinson only got access to justice because a member of the public had a telephone video of the assault. We have witnesses still not interviewed, three years after this heinous crime.
If Rossendales and all the other companies making fortunes out of the misfortunes of even a small percentage of truly innocent victims were really, genuinely, concerned, their complaints procedure would be accessible and available to people across the board. The average person does not know or have access to redress until after the conclusion of a situation has been finalised to the industries satisfaction.
Don’t tell me Boast is an isolated rogue operative. You’ll be telling me next that the Marston’s bailiff in Andy Miller’s case was only dressed like a copper because he looked good in blue? Did he expect a 78 year old stroke and heart attack victim to test the anti-stab jacket out?