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Hello, happy new year.
I was involved in an incident back in November and hope that someone can help with whats happened snce.
I was out with a friend for drinks on a Friday evening, we decided to get a takeaway on the way home and i'd just taken cash out of an atm to pay for a taxi. I was in the takaway and a man snatched the cash from my hand and stuffed it in his pocket. I told him to give it back, he shouted and swore and threatened violence, i asked him several more times and there were more threats of violence, he made a lunge at me so i hit him, once. I'm not proud of this, but he'd stolen from me and then lashed out, so i hit him to stop him attacking me. The police were called and we were both arrested, me for assault (the guy insisted to the police that i had violently assaulted him without provocation), and were carted off to the local police station.
Whilst I was handcuffed and waiting for the police van to arrive 3 people came up and offered to act as witnesses, they'd seen the entire episode, confirmed what i'd said, one of them had started filming us right after the guy took my cash, but the police officers were reluctant to take their details so the people txtd me their contacts in case i needed statements from them. I was fingerprinted, DNA swabbed, photographed, Smartwater scanned, held in a cell overnight, denied essential meds that i must take every morning, held until mid afternoon when they released me without charge.
When i was being released the policemen were quite chatty and told me that the mugger had been interviewed and when the police told him there were several witnesses and video of the event he decided to drop his claim that i assaulted him. The policeman also promised that all DNA, photos, fingerprints would be immediately destroyed and no charges would be brought and that i was free to go.
Last week i got a letter in the post, it was a "Safer Business Network Offender Privacy Notice" and its really concerned me. This letter refers to me as an "offender" telling me that my data has been shared with members and that it will be held for a specific period of time. All through the letter i am called an offender, yet i havent commited any offence havent been charged with or certainly not convicted of any offence and I'm terrified that my personal info is now in the public domain and i am being portayed as a criminal. I'm self employed and if any of my clients saw this it would be devastating for my reputation and also financially.
It seems the police havent destroyed my data, instead theyve shared it with a third party who have slandered me. I feel that i've been lied to, Im in a mess here, what can i do?
I was involved in an incident back in November and hope that someone can help with whats happened snce.
I was out with a friend for drinks on a Friday evening, we decided to get a takeaway on the way home and i'd just taken cash out of an atm to pay for a taxi. I was in the takaway and a man snatched the cash from my hand and stuffed it in his pocket. I told him to give it back, he shouted and swore and threatened violence, i asked him several more times and there were more threats of violence, he made a lunge at me so i hit him, once. I'm not proud of this, but he'd stolen from me and then lashed out, so i hit him to stop him attacking me. The police were called and we were both arrested, me for assault (the guy insisted to the police that i had violently assaulted him without provocation), and were carted off to the local police station.
Whilst I was handcuffed and waiting for the police van to arrive 3 people came up and offered to act as witnesses, they'd seen the entire episode, confirmed what i'd said, one of them had started filming us right after the guy took my cash, but the police officers were reluctant to take their details so the people txtd me their contacts in case i needed statements from them. I was fingerprinted, DNA swabbed, photographed, Smartwater scanned, held in a cell overnight, denied essential meds that i must take every morning, held until mid afternoon when they released me without charge.
When i was being released the policemen were quite chatty and told me that the mugger had been interviewed and when the police told him there were several witnesses and video of the event he decided to drop his claim that i assaulted him. The policeman also promised that all DNA, photos, fingerprints would be immediately destroyed and no charges would be brought and that i was free to go.
Last week i got a letter in the post, it was a "Safer Business Network Offender Privacy Notice" and its really concerned me. This letter refers to me as an "offender" telling me that my data has been shared with members and that it will be held for a specific period of time. All through the letter i am called an offender, yet i havent commited any offence havent been charged with or certainly not convicted of any offence and I'm terrified that my personal info is now in the public domain and i am being portayed as a criminal. I'm self employed and if any of my clients saw this it would be devastating for my reputation and also financially.
It seems the police havent destroyed my data, instead theyve shared it with a third party who have slandered me. I feel that i've been lied to, Im in a mess here, what can i do?
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