Dear All
When I was a child, I saw a movie called the Blue Lamp which focussed on the traditional bobby on the beat.
The film was about the investigation into the death of George Dixon, a Policeman nearing retirement.
The movie portrayed Police Officers as servants of the people who knew their communities and helped the people.
Fast forward to 2009 and we get Police and a different type of society.
Christopher McGinn was a police officer who has admitted dealing cocaine.
Worse than that he was on secondment to his force's drugs unit!
Now he has been jailed for 26 months.
Christopher McGinn was caught with the drug by Police Officers in a pub car park from Lothian and Borders Police.
He was suspended from duty before resigning from the force.
Sheriff Roderick MacLeod at Edinburgh Sheriff Court said;
"As a serving police officer at the time you were duty-bound to uphold society's values rather than subverting them."
The Sheriff is quite correct but the question must be asked how did McGinn not believe in those principles?
Did he believe that being a Policeman was simply just a job?
Why didn’t he have any pride in what he was doing?
Now, he is in prison, his life and career ruined.
I wonder, if he was given a second chance post prison would he change?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
When I was a child, I saw a movie called the Blue Lamp which focussed on the traditional bobby on the beat.
The film was about the investigation into the death of George Dixon, a Policeman nearing retirement.
The movie portrayed Police Officers as servants of the people who knew their communities and helped the people.
Fast forward to 2009 and we get Police and a different type of society.
Christopher McGinn was a police officer who has admitted dealing cocaine.
Worse than that he was on secondment to his force's drugs unit!
Now he has been jailed for 26 months.
Christopher McGinn was caught with the drug by Police Officers in a pub car park from Lothian and Borders Police.
He was suspended from duty before resigning from the force.
Sheriff Roderick MacLeod at Edinburgh Sheriff Court said;
"As a serving police officer at the time you were duty-bound to uphold society's values rather than subverting them."
The Sheriff is quite correct but the question must be asked how did McGinn not believe in those principles?
Did he believe that being a Policeman was simply just a job?
Why didn’t he have any pride in what he was doing?
Now, he is in prison, his life and career ruined.
I wonder, if he was given a second chance post prison would he change?
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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