March 28, 2006 Police 'monkey noises' heard as ex-soldier died By Stewart Tendler, Crime Correspondent POLICE officers who stood by while a former paratrooper choked to death on the floor of their station brought “disgrace” to their profession and committed “the most serious neglect of duty”, a watchdog concluded yesterday. In a critical 400-page report, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said that the treatment given to Chris Alder, a 37-year-old black Falklands war veteran, by Humberside officers amounted to “unwitting racism”. Nick Hardwick, chairman of the IPCC and author of the report, said: “I cannot say for certain that Mr...