Is Malcious Communication an Offence

[Deltic Bouy]

Is Malicious communication an offence that the police can prosecute an individual through the courts for?

[jaguarsuk]

Is Malicious communication an offence that the police can prosecute an individual through the courts for?

Yes under the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and there is more information on offences along with the variety of other acts those offences can be charged under here: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidanc...tions-offences

[Deltic Bouy]

Yes under the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and there is more information on offences along with the variety of other acts those offences can be charged under here: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidanc...tions-offences

Interesting how a police officer tells me it is not an offence they can take action against the perpatrator for

[des8]

Is this a continuation of your earlier thread where you were told that malicious communications were prosecutable? (if that's a word!)
http://legalbeagles.info/forums/foru...tes-harassment

Of course there are defences to that sort of charge, and it might be that there is info which the police have that you don't

[Deltic Bouy]

Is this a continuation of your earlier thread where you were told that malicious communications were prosecutable? (if that's a word!)
http://legalbeagles.info/forums/foru...tes-harassment

Of course there are defences to that sort of charge, and it might be that there is info which the police have that you don't

Indeed it is, I took your advice due to the lack of action and raised this as part of a much bigger case to the Chief Constable and finally after 5 months I have had a local supervising officer assigned to investigate my complaints, I tried to raise the point with him that I was told Malicious communication is not an offence by his officers, he seemed a little put out but then went into a sort of defense of that point, the defense being that the officer who assessed my complaint though giving their details as WPC are not actually Police Officers merely desk based staff who assess incoming calls and deal with them from the comfort of their desk and only assign calls out to a beat officer with experience should they have no other option.
Not really a defense to my way of thinking!

[des8]

So if she (the desk based person) is not actually a police officer, I wonder if "they" have committed a further offence by pretending to be a police officer,
or was the supervising officer just trying to gloss over an incident where a police officer, through ignorance of the law, ignored a genuine report of wrong doing.

Could kick this ball around for yonks

[Deltic Bouy]

So if she (the desk based person) is not actually a police officer, I wonder if "they" have committed a further offence by pretending to be a police officer,
or was the supervising officer just trying to gloss over an incident where a police officer, through ignorance of the law, ignored a genuine report of wrong doing.

Could kick this ball around for yonks

I guess that will be difficult to assess, the emails from the officer were signed as PC and a 4 digit collar number as one would expect to be addressed from an officer carrying the Queen's warrant and indeed when I spoke to her she announced herself as WPC, it was only later I learned she was desk bound, at first I believed that may be due to some form of light duties it was only on speaking to the supervising officer dealing with my complaint was I made aware that they are purely recruited to work desk based and have not seen active street service, something he seemed himself to be opposed to and says he will be addressing how she came to her conclusion and how much supervision was carried out of her work.