BLOG OFF SAY BMF
11 August 2006 - BMF

Personal comments by senior police officers in web logs on official police websites, go against the Police Code of Conduct say the BMF in a letter to the North Wales Police Authority, questioning the use of such personal web logs.

This follows comments made by the Deputy Chief Constable of the North Wales Police, Mr Clive Wolfendale’s personal blog on the North Wales Police website in which he floated the idea of banishing motorcycles from National Parks.

In the BMF’s letter, which has also been sent to Mr Tony McNaulty MP, Secretary of State with responsibility for Policing, and to the Association of Chief Police Officers’ (ACPO) Portfolio Holder for Police Standards, Mr Paul Scoot Lee, (Chief Constable of West Midlands Police), the BMF point out that the Mr Wolfendale’s web log for the weekend of August 5th contained a number of remarks that appear to conflict with the Police Code of Conduct i.e.: ‘Police officers have a particular responsibility to act with fairness and impartiality in all their dealings with the public and their colleagues.’

In what is obviously a personal blog, the BMF have asked if it is appropriate that the North Wales Police budget is used to fund the publication of a Senior Officers'' personal opinions when Mr Wolfendale’s comments on motorcycles in National Parks appear to be far from impartial.

On the subject matter of noise from motorcycles, the BMF does not deny that there is a problem, but as DCC Wolfendale comments; ‘most riders are responsible and courteous’. This say the BMF is at odds with his postulating on if it:- ‘Is it now time to banish motorcycles completely from our National Parks?’

Inconsiderate owners fitting their machines with non-standard illegal exhaust systems cause noise nuisance and it is this issue that should be tackled, not the banning of all motorcyclists say the BMF.

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