From: amanda.costello@ipcc.gsi.gov.uk Amanda Costello
To: eribsskog@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:31:20 +0000
Subject: Complaints Manager Mr Douglas Cleaver

Mr Ribsskog,

Thank you for your e-mail.

I have passed the details of your email onto Douglas Cleaver for his
attention. He is however on leave until Monday 7 January.

Kind regards,

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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

From: eribsskog@gmail.com Erik Ribsskog
To: lynne.overend@ipcc.gsi.gov.uk
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:18:41 +0000
Subject: Letter from 31/12.

Hi,

I’m refering to your letter from 31/12, where you explain that the
Merseyside Police have applied
for a dispensation on not investigate a complaint.

Since I hadn’t answered their letters.

I only recieved the last of these letters, and I had earlier contacted the
IPCC on 10/11, explaining
that I had lost a bit of confidence with the Police Department.

So thats why I sent the letter from the Police Department, sent on 3/12, to
the IPCC, on 5/12,
asking how I should deal with this letter, since I had lost a bit of
confidence in them.

I sent an e-mail to the IPCC on 5/12, where I asked what I should do
regarding the letter from the
Police from 03. December, since I had lost a bit of confidence with the
police, like I wrote in the
e-mail from 10/11.

This was forwarded to the case-worker Mr. Gibbs, who is dealing with the
appeal.

But he hasn’t answered me back on this.

And when I sent the letter from the Police Department, to the IPCC on 5/12,
then I wasn’t
answered on how to deal with the letter, which I asked about.

There were several issues that I brought up in the e-mail from 5/12, but I
think something must
have gone wrong, since Joanne Fitzgerald had started working in another
department.

I sent Fitzgerald two letters that I wondered how to deal with.

One from the Police, and one from the IPCC.

Also I brought up the problem on why Mr. Gibbs hadn’t contacted me back,
even if Fitzgerald
wrote in the e-mail from 21/11, that she had been forwarded my e-mail from
10/11.

So there were three issues brought up in the e-mail from 5/12.

But I only got an answer on one of the issues. (How to deal with the letter
from the IPCC regarding the harassment-case
from Walton Lane Police Station on 8/11)., since I thought this incident
probably must have been conected with the other
complaint and appeal, and probably should have been investigated collected,
the way I see it.

The other two mentioned issues, remained unanswered.

So I think something must have gone wrong, at the IPCC, since the other two
issues weren’t answered.

And also I think the complaints should be dealt with collected.

So I’m going to forward this e-mail, and the other e-mail, which I sent you
and Brown earlier today, to the person Brown
mentioned that deals with complaints at the IPCC, Complaints Manager Mr
Douglas Cleaver.

So then I think it’s maybe best to wait until these issues have been looked
at by Mr. Cleaver, until we decide how to
go further with the complaint(s)?

So please tell me if you agree with this.

Hope that this is alright!

Yours sincerely,

Erik Ribsskog