Figures obtained by the Standard show the Territorial Support Group was accused of 159 assaults, four of them serious and three of them sexual, in the past year. No officers have been disciplined. Scotland Yard said none of the cases had yet been “substantiated”.
Well, of course Scotland Yard will say that. But it is becoming apparent that the TSG are a law unto themselves. Their violent hyped-up ‘looking for a ruck’ behaviour. What precisely is the difference between the infamous out-of-control SPG and the TSG? Nothing… The only thing different about those two units is the name, same ideology and same tactics…
The Met’s response is that they are ‘often in confrontational policing situations’… So does that give them licence to indulge in casual unprovoked violence? Whacking people on the back of the legs, head and any other part of the body, punching people in the face, causing a death. They instil fear in people rather like the hated SPG. They are out-of-control thugs.
Liberty are correct when they say,”We have heard too much about the TSG – there is clearly an urgent need to investigate and probably abolish this arrogant and unaccountable force within the force.”
The solution is simple, disband them.
Quotes from Evening Standard http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23690792-details/Calls+to+disband+the+Met+squad+in+G20+riots/article.do
Totally agree.
TOTALLY disagree.