Questions over police payout to law firm to be addressed in States
Tuesday 26th February 2013, 5:00PM GMT.
HOME minister Jonathan Le Tocq will tomorrow make a statement about the taxpayer money that has been spent in costs and damages following an unlawful police raid on a law firm’s premises.
Deputy Le Tocq, pictured, who is also deputy chief minister, confirmed that he would be addressing questions raised by Vale States member Matt Fallaize, which relate to two years of legal argument over a police raid on AFR Advocates’ Court Place headquarters at 3am in June 2010.
The Guernsey Press has been rebuffed despite several attempts to get Treasury and Resources to release the figures.
‘I will be making a statement in the States on Wednesday. That is the proper way of dealing with matters,’ Deputy Le Tocq said yesterday.
‘States members should be informed first before the media. [The statement] will certainly be addressing the questions raised.’
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The law breaks the law.
What will be their punishment.imprisonment,struck off,suspended,or sacked?
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Be surprised if we get an honest and full explanation. Always something they can hide behind. Well this is politics!
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Am I just being an unbeliever when I think that Deputy Le Tocq`s statement WILL NOT give the FULL figures and he will give a typical politician`s sidestepping speech?
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Will it be a full tweet ?
Or silence of the lambs speech ?
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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I don’t understand this. How can a warrant, properly issued by a magistrate, be illegal?
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Only the SOG can break the law
Not us, keep them rolling deputies
Lets all change it!
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LE TOCQ AFTER TEN MINUTES OF WEASEL WORDS HAS REFUSED TO DISCLOSE THE AMOUNT WE HAVE PAID
HE MUST SURELY RESIGN
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Absolutely right.
A disgraceful copout and he must go.
Taxpayers will simply not accept being treated like this.
Whatever happended to the culture of more transparent government? This decision will set back the electorate’s trust of government back by many years.
I sincerely hope that there are sufficient deputies out there like Matt Fallaize who will not sit back and let this rest. Those who press for disclosure will have my full support.
The Guernsey Press Editor will have a field day with this. Le Tocq has completely set himself up here for a major fall after his “despicable” comment yesterday. He has no option but to go.
Elected members of the States – listen very carefully. Start listening to the electorate who elected you in good faith. Re-read your manifestos. Remember who you are meant to be representing. Some of you have clearly forgotten.
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Just listened to Le Tocq speech.
What a cop out !
Just 15 minutes to ask questions.
Not good enough.
Cover up of massive proportions.
Hang your heads in shame.
Not media hype – Huge concerns from the voting public.
This is a matter that can not be swept under the carpet.
The fight for disclosure of costs will go on.
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Well, no surprises there, then.
(I will cross-post from http://www.thisisguernsey.com/news/2013/02/25/deputy-sets-deadline-for-illegal-raid-cost-answers/)
Many of you have no idea how bad the corruption really is – that it is nauseating, would be no exaggeration.
As someone who has experienced it for 20 years over a piece of land that my family own in the town centre, I can tell you that the unceasing back scratching and naive connivance of a loose cabal of politicians and civil servants who believe that the ‘public should not know’ is often breathtakingly stupid.
But then, they have never been called to account before. That is about to change.
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
ISLAND WIDE VOTING
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This is disgusting , maybe it might be an idea to have a list on here and the paper on which members of the States are on what side of the fence so to speak IE who don’t mind it being covered up and the ones that want it to be open and transparent . Oh and maybe a poll also . Go on TIG get the ball rolling and don’t accept any fob off’s.
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Those who asked questions of Le Tocq were Fallaize,Gollop,Laurie Queripel,Storey and Perrot and right at the end Mary Lowe muttered something which wasn’t accepted as a question
Le Tocq’s standard reply was that as confidentiality clauses were one of the tools in the toolbox they had merely used it ‘for our own good’( I THINK he meant for the own good of the taxpayers rather than the own good of the Police Chief and the Law Officers but it was hard to tell)
Not a murmur from any member of the Policy Council,not a word from any member of PAC,the body entrusted with the proper scrutiny of the financial affairs of the States and the body entrusted to ensure that States departments operate to the highest standards in all financial matters
TRULY THE WORST STATES EVER
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Guernseys judiciary and the money spent on unlawful police raids is not good news, just released though is a worse situation in Jersey. The two States Deputies explain why the Jersey Judicial system is conflicted and not fit for purpose.
We have reluctantly taken this step is due to the frightening reality that our island’s ‘justice’ system has become a tool of oppression rather than arbiter of fairness and protection for all ordinary citizens.
http://thebaldtruthjersey.blogspot.co.uk
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