From: eribsskog@gmail.com Erik Ribsskog
To: enquiries@ipcc.gsi.gov.uk
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:55:18 +0000
Subject: Complaints Manager Mr Douglas Cleaver.
Hi,
I was adviced by Sarah Brown in an e-mail today, that it was possible to
complain to you, about some
problems with the IPCC.
The problems are:
1. I sent Joanne Fitzgerald, IPCC, an e-mail on 10/11, about the problem
that I had lost a bit of confidence
with the Police Department, due to episodes in conection with a meeting on
Walton Lane Police Station on 8/11.
Fitzgerald sent my e-mail to Mr. Gibbs, but he didn’t answer back.
2. I sent Fitzgerald a new e-mail on 5/12, where I brought up three issues:
– How to deal with a letter from the police.
– How to deal with a letter from the IPCC, in conection with an harassment
episode on Walton Lane Police Station on 8/11.
– The problem with Mr. Gibbs not answering the e-mail I sent Fitzgerald on
10/11. (Which she forwarded him).
Only the second issue, surrounding the letter from IPCC, was answered, by
Sarah Brown.
Fitzgerald had joined a new department, Brown explained, and this was why
she answered the second issue, but the
two other issues, with the letter from the police, and why Gibbs hadn’t
answered, remained unaswered.
So I think something must have gone wrong at the IPCC here, since I think
all of these issues should have been looked
at, dealt with, and answered by the IPCC.
So I think this should maybe be investigated, what it is, that has been
going on here.
3. Also Brown adviced me later, on 11/12, to contact the Police Department,
regarding the problem that I had lost confidence with
the Police Department.
This I don’t makes that much sense.
Also she didn’t answer back until yesterday, when I expained again why I had
lost confidence with the Police Department,
when they needed an answer within three weeks from 3/12.
4. Also, I think that the complaint to do with the harassment-episode on
Walton Lane Police Station on 8/11, should maybe
have been investigated collected with the other complaint and appeal,
regarding unproffesional conduct from members of the
Merseyside Police, since I think the new harassment-incident, could be
linked with the old complaint and appeal.
And also the problems with the psd departments e-mail address, and the notes
and e-mails from the psd department, should
be investigated collected with the other complaints.
Also the conduct of Sgt. Smyth, in the meeting on 8/11, where I think he
used some unregulated methods when writing the
witness statement, I think should be investigated together with the other
mentioned complaints/problems.
I’m going to forward the other two e-mails I’ve sent the IPCC today, the one
sent to Sarah Brown, and the one sent to Lynne Overend.
Please just contact me if there is something I have forgotten to explain
well enough surrounding this.
Hope that this is alright!
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog