[WLR]

I think this is baloney... Now there is a balance but the Officer did not actually follow thru and try to arrest the guy on false charges..

I disagree with the policy that says the police can lie and use subtrifuge to obtain statements.. However that is the current state if the Law and from my perspective that’s what he was doing...

Firing him for that which is legal (Thou I think it should not be) is wrong..

He should not have been fired for this incident..He was doing nothing more than that which detectives do all the time in interrogations.

I hope he is reinstated and the policy is revisited across the board.

W

[supercat]

I disagree with the policy that says the police can lie and use subtrifuge to obtain statements.. However that is the current state if the Law and from my perspective that’s what he was doing...

The normal types of lies and subterfuge in which police would engage would involve deceiving a suspect about what other suspects had said, etc. I am unaware of anything that authorizes cops to threaten suspects with criminal harm.