I then got told I was being issued with a harassment warning and if I was caught playing back my homes cctv again I would be arrested.
So sorry this happened. And unfortunately you are not alone. I know of a family where one of the adult children is registered blind, and has other health issues, but uses new technology a lot. eg having a system that focuses on a bird feeder. This led to a neighbour complaining they were being spied on, etc., etc.
And it seems that one middle ranking officer has total control of the case. Senior officers say it is "his case". This led, despite social workers saying dont do it, to 3 policemen arriving early one morning to arrest the supposed spy, who then had a siezure. The police stopped his father administering medicine that could releavd his symptons on the grounds he was now under arrest, and they had would all have to wait until the ambulance service arrived. (Just to say all evidence seized by the police, eg computers and digital cameras were eventually return months later on the basis that they would not be relevant to the case.)
I've probably said too much as the case is ongoing, but it points to a culture in local police stations where any sense of due diligence or supervision, standards evidence, does not exist.
But wonder if an other police station could help as mentioned above. Although when an independent observer was bought in they were only shown the case by the police officer and not allowed to read the material written in response. So that was another dead end.
So I dont want to derail this thread as I think it really important that it remains focused on Caroline Farrow, but have added this as it shows that any of us thinking that there is some universal standard of good practice throughout police forces, should accept that there aren't.
But based on the case I know about, it appears no one, local councillors, social workers, senior officers, is allowed to challenge the work practices of one officer. So I can in fact imagine some strange acceptance, that on whatever basis someone is off work for 7 weeks, no one else would take up the work.
After all a different pair of eyes might come to a conclusion that what the original officer insisted was the case, was in fact was wrong. Canteen culture, isn't just about fostering misogyny, racism, homophobia etc., it is also the hub where power patterns are enforced.
I am not sure how you break this culture.
And that someone like Caroline Farrow could find herself caught up in this kafkaesque system.