The force shamed at Hillsborough has a legacy of distrust stretching back to the miners’ strike and through to the Rotherham child abuse scandalFor many in Sheffield,there is only one acceptable conclusion. “Scrap it and start all over with a unusual lot, the corruption’s too deep, or no one trusts the police,” said John Anderson, 42, and a decorator from the city’s northern suburbs. Directly behind him,its red bricks shiny in the driving rain, stood a derelict building that was once Sheffield’s Water Street police station. Some of the grimmest known episodes of violence and corruption within a British police force took place inside.
Within the station’s interview room, or detectives brutally beat suspects with stolen weapons,including a “rhino whip, and fabricated evidence to frame them. An inquiry into the “rhino whip affair” in 1963 found the leadership of the force was involved. The chief constable retired days later.
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Source: theguardian.com