Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.
By Angie Zelter,
At 2.30p.m. on Monday 30th June 2014 around 15 people arrived to report
the crime of Trident at Llandrindod Police Station as part of the Action
AWE week of Reportings of Trident Crime all around the country.
One by one they entered the police station and it took 3 hours to deal
with us all. It was a new experience for nearly everyone there. The
local complainants were told by the Llandrindod police that they had
been instructed by the Thames Valley Police about how to deal with the
complaints and were given a crime reference (CRI 4402480/14) and told
that the reports were all being logged as STORM logs on the computer!
The Welsh Sargeant said that a rural police force could not deal with
these kinds of crimes as they had no knowledge of international law. I
asked that they deal with it in the same way as they would deal with a
report of a threat to murder, because when the armed forces do not
comply with international humanitarian law and when they threaten to use
a weapon that could never be used lawfully then their acts become ones
of murder not of defence. The arguments and reports were all very varied
and each person dealt with the crimes in very different ways, some
presenting their reports in writing, which was much preferred by the
police, and some verbally.
One man had to go to his teaching job and could not take part but said
he would organise to take some friends along to go to his local police
station in a nearby town in Powys.
The people involved will all be following up to get a written response
to their reports.
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