The police demanded to know why she had visited Israel, whether she was planning to go back and whether she felt safe to go there. ‘I asked them, “What do you think happened? That the Jews kidnapped me?”’ said Ms Passmore, who has had an interest in Jewish people after studying the Holocaust for her degree.
What ever gave the police the impression that they were entitled to knock on any citizen's door and question them about their interests?
‘I kept saying to them, “I don’t understand why you are here” and they said only that they were there to check on me.’ She said when the officers first knocked on the door of her County Durham home and explained they were there to talk about safeguarding, she worried it was about her autistic son. ‘But then they mentioned Israel and said, “We aren’t here about your son, but about you, we’ve had a complaint”. I was absolutely gobsmacked,’ said Ms Passmore of the July 4 visit.
This is, of course, a Prevent initiative. That project set up because of all the Islamist terror attacks, which has now branched out - due to the lack of Islamists? Or due to the desire of politicians to try to pretend that there are other equally valid threats out there?
She had a second visit ten days later after she complained about her doorstep interrogation to local Reform councillor and former television presenter Darren Grimes, who wrote to Durham Constabulary. This time Ms Passmore, who posts on X as @MummyisTired and has nearly 17,000 followers, faced a Prevent officer and a police superintendent. It was the first time she learned someone had reported her to Prevent.
And she'll never be allowed to know who.
Ms Passmore said that on the second visit she was told the investigation wasn’t about her trip to Israel, even though that is what all of the questions on the earlier interrogation were about.
Yes, the police lying again. No matter how many times they are caught doing it, they keep on. They just don't ever appear to get any better at it!
A Durham Constabulary spokeswoman said: ‘Each Prevent referral is reviewed to determine whether further action is required including, where appropriate, assessment to determine if there is an immediate security threat, or whether a vulnerable person is at genuine risk of radicalisation.’
Well, you clearly failed here. Assuming your goal was to do all that in the first place, anyway.
It seems it's necessary to record every encounter with the police and obtain the names and badge numbers of the cops including their senior officers. The grunts don't make these decisions, their bosses do.
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